garnished with fresh basil. Or trottole with pancetta in roasted tomato sauce— house made pancetta in roasted roma tomato sauce over curly pasta noodles garnished with ricotta salata.
The evening menu changes from time to time, so if you haven’ t visited in a while you might want to treat yourself and see what is on Chef Eric Cole’ s mind these days.
After much deep study and cogitation over the seven proposed entrée’ s on the After Five menu, any
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There are several sandwiches on the menu, including another favorite of my wife— an open-faced vegetable sandwich with avocado, tomato, alfalfa sprouts, and mushrooms on whole wheat with melted cheddar cheese; also turkey and steak sandwiches served open-faced; a tuna melt; and a good one-third pound cheeseburger.
While the everyday lunch menu is perfectly good, and we find it hard to resist ordering our regular favorites( the“ Rube Martin” for Mrs. Sampler, the quiche for me), we’ ve come to try the new“ Specials After Five” menu.
The evening menu offers something a little above and beyond typical Nashville cuisine— such as panroasted duck breast with cranberries, accompanied by braised kale and the chef’ s biscuit pudding in a pool of house-made pan sauce made with veal stock, white wine and dried cranberries. Or shrimp in a sauce of garlic, capers and feta cheese, turned out on fettucine
one of which I would be happy to entertain, I decide on the“ braised rabbit with pappardelle.”
My kitchen companion opted for the Mahi-Mahi with a cumin-caper mayonnaise sauce.
While our friendly and efficient waitron took our order back to the kitchen, we dipped into the Hobnob’ s impressive wine list, I with a glass of pinot noir; she with a nice shiraz. The atmosphere is warm and friendly.
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26 Our Brown County • Jan./ Feb. 2014