News for Foodies 12.10.15
Living Room Specials
The Living Room restaurant at c/o the Maidstone is celebrating the holiday season with special offers for two-legged and four-legged patrons. The restaurant’s winter prix fixe menu, usually $49, is now $29. Available Sunday through Thursday, 5:30 to 7 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 5:30 to 6:30, the menu includes the day’s soup, a choice of organic chicken breast, pan-seared salmon, or Köttbullar (Swedish meatballs), and, for dessert, either sticky-toffee date cake or two scoops of ice cream.
Dogs get an even better deal. Throughout December, pooches accompanied by hotel guests or diners are entitled to a free meal from the dog-friendly inn’s Woof Menu.
At the Chequit
Red Maple, the restaurant at the Chequit hotel on Shelter Island, has devised a fall/winter menu of seasonally inspired dishes. Light bites for sharing include chicken croquettes with blue cheese dipping sauce and pumpkin hummus with toasted pumpkin seeds and flatbread. Among the salads are shredded Brussels sprouts with lardons, red onion, and dried cranberry, and poached pears with manchego and candied walnuts.
Diners are invited to mix large and small plates, which include duck confit rillettes with Granny Smith apples, apricots, and pistachios; bacon-wrapped shrimp with apple and fennel slaw; Prince Edward Island mussels with fennel, leeks, and ale; selections of cheeses or charcuterie; herb-roasted Amish chicken with baby carrots, fava beans, and vermouth natura, and pan-roasted Atlantic cod with classic ratatouille.
The hotel will a hold its first-ever tree-lighting party on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m. Visitors will be serenaded by carolers in Victorian finery, and mulled wine and hot apple cider will be for sale, as will desserts from Baked, a Red Hook, Brooklyn, bakery. Kids can decorate ornaments and enjoy cookies. Profits from the event will benefit the Shelter Island Historical Society.
Santa at Rowdy Hall
Santa will be sitting by the fire at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton on Saturday morning from 10 to noon, posing for pictures with children of all ages and adding their gift requests to his list. A suggested donation per photo will benefit local food pantries, as will donations of canned and shelf-stable food. Dreesen’s doughnuts and warm apple cider will be served.
In addition, children and adults can make holiday cards for veterans at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The cards will be delivered before the holidays by a representative from the Wounded Warrior Project.