News For Foodies: 01.22.15
Pasta Night
Tuesday is pasta night at the Harbor Grill, which is on Three Mile Harbor Road in East Hampton. Beginning at 5 p.m., a pasta dinner special, featuring soup or salad, garlic bread, and an entree, is offered for $17, plus tax and gratuity. Choices include pasta with clam sauce, meatballs, Bolognese sauce, or with sausage, broccoli, garlic, and olive oil.
Cavaniola’s Gourmet
Besides a selection of cheeses and wines, the Cavaniola’s Gourmet shop in Sag Harbor has a winter menu and a lineup of weekly specials on soups, salads, side dishes, entrees, and sweets. Seasonal menu items include grilled salmon, macaroni and cheese made with three cheeses or truffled, chicken pot pies, meatloaf, pulled pork sliders, chicken noodle soup, and kale salad with dried cranberries, five-year aged gouda, toasted almonds, and balsamic vinaigrette.
The specials for this week include, for side dishes, creamed butternut squash soup, potato chowder, roasted beets, marinated gigante bean salad, sautéed napa cabbage with bacon and onions, and mashed celeriac. Among the entree specials this week are some game meats: elk tenderloin with rosemary and thyme, Moroccan duck confit, rabbit and ginger sausage with bok choy and scallions, and squab with sausage and apple dressing.
Merlot Makers
Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead is the newest member of the Long Island Merlot Alliance, a consortium of winemakers that seeks to help members produce high-quality merlot and merlot blends in the Long Island region. The group’s president is Roman Roth of the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack. Among the other East End member vineyards are Clovis Point, Lieb Cellers, McCall Wines, Raphael, Sherwood House Vineyards, and T’Jara Vineyards.
A blend of 100 percent merlot wine from each of the member vineyards, called Merliance, is created by the alliance and sold to fund the group’s activities, from research initiatives to events.
Martha Clara Vineyards was founded by Robert Entenmann, a member of the family that owned the Entenmann bakery, and is named after his mother, Martha Clara Entenmann. He developed a former potato farm into a thoroughbred horse farm and then, in 1995, planted grapes and began to develop the vineyard.