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| - The Gabardine has just launched a new menu within the last two weeks.
Checked them out for dinner last Friday. Sampled a bunch of their new dishes. Here is what we had:
Starter: Sweet Corn Hushpuppies ($9) super light and airy, nice corn taste. Served with a buttermilk poppyseed dressing for dipping. Delicious.
Mains: All three of us ordered something different so that we could try as many new items as possible.
Fish Tacos (from the daily specials) ($16): Two huge tacos chalk full of beautifully crispy deep fried & battered pickerel. Spiced with cumin and garnished with a lovely slaw. Served with really tasty purple and yellow baby potato salad, light creamy dill dressing. Awesome
Shrimp Po'Boy ($14): Wowzers. A huge portion for the price, larger than I anticipated. The po'boy sandwich was served on a bun similar to the type usually used for lobster rolls. Tons of battered, deep fried shimp overflowing from the open face sandwich, dressed with butter lettuce, tomato relish & and aioli. Sides include a small green salad and a portion of the potato salad (which was served with the fish tacos).
Kolapore Springs Smoked Trout Salad ($13): Not a new menu item but has been updated. The smoked trout was melt in your mouth delicious. Salad consisted of green beans, cherry tomatoes, fingerling potato crisps (great addition, added some much needed crunchy texture), olives and a remoulade.
Topped off dinner with cappuccino's & two desserts: the burnt mashmallow ice cream sandwich ($7) & the chocolate whoopie pies with dulce de leche cream and cinnamon spiced roasted peanuts ($9). The whoopie pies were good, the cake was a bit overbaked but the dulce de leche cream was the perfect filling. The ice cream sandwiches were the clear hit at the table, even though we were all pretty full we couldn't stop eating them. They use Ed's Real Scoop ice cream, rich and decadent.
In conclusion, the new menu at the Gabardine is a clear hit. Check them out, you won't be disappointed.
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