Sample Menu - The Gamekeeper Restaurant (menu posted January 15, 2002)
Appetizers
Ham & Bean Soup $6.00 Honey baked ham, white bean and grilled chicken soup with tomatoes and rosemary
Fried Chevre $8.75 Pecan crusted goats cheese over mixed lettuces with dried cherry, apple vinaigrette
Crawfish Cake $9.25 Pan seared crawfish and grilled vegetable cake with basil, lime aioli on a bed of locally grown mustard greens
Antipasto $13.75 Boar honey ham, rabbit confit, duck "prosciutto," buttermilk blue cheese, Brie, mixed olives, and pickled vegetables served with house-made crackers
Smoked Salmon $9.00 Scottish smoked salmon with warm spinach, artichoke, Parmesan gratin and toasted sourdough croutes
Salads
Seasonal Greens $5.50 Mixed lettuces from Valle Crucis tossed with diced tomatoes and grilled bell pepper, balsamic vinaigrette
Fried Rattlesnake Salad $10.50 Fresh spinach tossed with tomatoes & onions marinated in sherry vinaigrette with flash fried rattlesnake and whole grain mustard, brown sugar dressing
Apple, Blue Cheese $7.95 A whole head of locally grown buttery bib lettuce with apple vinaigrette, sliced apples and crumbled buttermilk blue cheese
Mushroom Salad $7.75 Sautéed shiitake and oyster mushrooms in balsamic vinaigrette tossed with spinach and goats cheese
Oyster Fritters $10.50 Corn fritters with diced oysters served over mixed lettuces tossed with lemon, chive, buttermilk vinaigrette and roasted bell peppers
Entrees
Pheasant $27.95 Grilled young pheasant with apple smoked bacon polenta and roasted shallot, thyme jus
Venison $32.95 North American venison loin, grilled medium rare, with blueberry demi-glace and mashed sweet potatoes
Wild Turkey $26.95 Grilled wild turkey from the breast and leg with Wild Turkey, fig and cranberry compote and maple mashed sweet potatoes
Ostrich $27.95 Ostrich fan tenderloin, grilled medium-rare, with grilled onion, rosemary butter and barely mashed potatoes
Rabbit $27.95 Southern fried rabbit leg and tenderloin with mashed potatoes and buttermilk pan gravy
Salmon $22.95 Sautéed Atlantic salmon filet over fettuccine tossed with sun-dried tomato, Chevre cream sauce
Filet Mignon $30.95 Eight ounce Black Angus beef tenderloin grilled to your favorite temperature with barely mashed potatoes and wild mushroom glaze butter
Rainbow Trout $21.95 Locally raised rainbow trout crusted with cornmeal and herbs, served with an herbed grits cake and lemon, caper salsa
Chicken Pot Pie $19.95 Grilled free-range chicken breast served in a rich shiitake mushroom pie
Grilled Vegetable Stack $16.95 Large marinated portabella mushrooms, bell peppers and onions grilled over wood coals then stacked with fresh mozzarella cheese, house-made pasta, herbs and roasted garlic tomato sauce
Beef Risotto $19.95 Arborio rice with diced, grilled Angus tenderloin, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach and Parmesan