Food Traveler Magazine Winter 2013 | Page 120

Winter Southern Style Bowling Green is the commercial hub for dozens of surrounding communities and is brimming with restaurant and entertainment options. seafood, homemade breads, desserts and gourmet pizzas baked daily in the brick oven. A staple of the buy local movement is Home Café & Marketplace, Bowling Green’s premier location for gourmet ingredients and chef-inspired dishes. A full service café specializing in high-end pizzas, sandwiches, and garden fresh salads, Home Café chefs use only the freshest ingredients and source local produce. Also making freshness a priority is On the Bone Chophouse, where meat is cut in-house for fish, steak and chop dinners, fresh local vegetables and real dairy products are used daily. Bowling Green’s signature sushi restaurants also make up its international palate, including Yuki, Samurai, Shogun Bistro and several others. No restaurant in the region provides a cold winter’s night escape quite like Montana Grille, where the tall timbers of the northwest are combined with the cozy and casual warmth of the south. Crackling fireplaces inside the open log structure provide the perfect ambiance for enjoying specialties like the Kentucky Bourbon Filet, Fire Roasted Chicken Pot Pie bubbling in a cast-iron skillet and the ever-popular Firebread that gives a unique twist to traditional cornbread.