Wednesday, January 29, 2014 
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Dear Snow Lovers (yeah, right),
 

 

It's Hump Week and, so, time for my mid-winter, hump week grumble.  And I am bloody cold.   

 

At this time, when certain of you have embraced chilly heartless, heatless winter and are out bounding up and down snowy-steep-ruthless-implacable hills; sliding with steel blades over cold, dead ice; grinning gaily near dangerous ice-fires fishing for God-knows-what-can-stay-alive in that miserable cold life sapping abyss; and are generally happily engaged  

(Having the unlikely point of view that winter is somehow beneficent and you are glad not to be sweating your pelotas off, or swatting flies and just generally whining about the awful, steamy weather that would be summer, you lovers of the dark and cold);  While you are blithely so engaged, I am here, hunkered down, heat turned up, fire roaring, clasping hot cocoa (believe that one?) and subtly spying the sky for signs of longer sun and a break in the stabbingly cold.

 

I am a heat seeking, daylight detecting, deck loving resident of summer, may it never end. Give me warm, moist heat.   

 

My way of dealing with a looming winter begins in August as I soak up the summer's last heat deep into my bones (not talking yukky sunbathing here), then I deny the autumn chilly bite by having late afternoon drinks on the opulent Ale House deck as the sun dives too quickly and I pretend it is still a warm summer evening - always wearing shorts.   

 

I next shoot into winter with as much heat as I can hold, seat heaters on, car pre-warmed, spending only seconds between house and car - car and restaurant, eyes closed, body in a ball, hoping to make it to late February with a bit of heat left somewhere in my guts and maybe some whiskey in my glass.  At which time (late Feb.) I hope to slowly emerge from conscious hibernation to look around and find signs of warmth in a slightly longer day or a teasing thaw.   

 

I always fail at this ridiculous expectancy - body cold, whiskey glass empty, freakin' freezin' outside - and then, with almost no resolve left to make it through my 'dark night of the soul' (Stealing from St. John), I further find that my veins no longer carry blood, but thin blue ice water, and my teeth, now a percussion instrument, are set to chattering at a rate inversely proportional to the perceived temperature.  That is to say, I don't need a dog whistle.   

 

Are you cold now?  Or, am I a voice crying in the tundra?  Perhaps we are all ready to throw off this mantle of ice and say "Winter! Dude! What is up with, like, you know, the relentlessness? Right?"

 

We have our summer this Friday.  Once again, to the beach!
To The Beach!
Beach Party & Bob Marley Night
With The Duppy Conquerors
Friday, Jan. 31, 9:30 PM Till...

Beach Girls

We have:

  • Tiki bar, Heather's Tiki Drinks 
  • Free food buffet,
  • $Cash to throw at creative and adventurous beach goers
  • Bob Marley tunes all night
  • Limbo contest
  • Frozen T-shirt contest 
  • hula hoops
  • squirt guns

 Beach Umbrella Chair

 

 

 

BABY IT'S HOT!

 

Who can resist? 

 

   

Beer Dinner - Southern Comfort

    

Thursday, Feb. 6, 6 PM

5 Ale House Beers, 5 Gourmet Courses, 50 People, $50

  

Reservations 978 669 0122

  

As of this writing there are 43 signed up.  So, call now and maybe we can fit you in.  We have been known to go over 50 people.

 

Our Theme is Southern Comfort Food and here's the menu. Have a tissue at hand while you read, for your chin us under your mouth.

     

Peach Cobbler
 

MENU

 

Course 1 - Summer's End (Kolsch)

Big Thicket Chicken & Dumpling Soup

Whole chicken is slow cooked with garlic & pepper & spices. Chicken is pulled then sautéed with celery, onion, peas and carrots and served in its own broth with house made dumplings.

 

Course 2 - Chair City Pale Ale

Louisiana Shrimp Creole

Shrimp in their shells are cooked in a sauté of peppers, stewed tomatoes, bay leaf, green onions and Creole spices with a little hot sauce. Shrimp are removed and shelled and returned to the sauté and served over rice with warm corn bread on the side.

 

Course 3 - Dave's Double

Mac 'n' Cheese 'n' Brisket

Elbow macaroni tossed with a creamy blend of extra sharp cheddar, Colby and Monterrey Jack cheeses with milk, butter and egg. Macaroni is topped with smoked cheddar and baked and topped with oven smoked brisket. Served with sautéed collard greens.

 

INTERMISSION

 

Course 4 - XSB

Country Fried Steak Over Smashed Yams

Tenderloin medallion is seasoned, floured and pan seared, then placed over smashed yams in a potato cup, topped with country gravy and garnished with fried green tomatoes.

 

Course 5 - Dunkelweizen

Sweet Georgia Peach Cobbler

Peaches in sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar are baked topped with a butter crumble of flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. Served with vanilla ice cream and topped with Southern Comfort glaze. Ahh

 

Valentine's Day - Bring Your Doll


    


Valentine's Day - Dinner For Two
Friday, Feb. 14
Lovely Live Music with Secret Sage, 8:30 PM

$50 per couple


Reservations
978 669 0122

Ever think of taking your other half out?  If this is a new idea for you, I have an easy ticket.  Start with the Ale House, then finish with the Ale House.  We have food and music and all of Gardners greatest lovers,  you!

 

Oak Aged Wicked Big Stout and Ale House Extra Hard Cider will be on tap too - just to get the love going... 

 

 Valentine's Day Menu For Two 

  

Appetizer For Two

Shrimp Cocktail, Shrimp Egg Rolls Shrimp, Asian Chicken Cashew Cakes, Cucumber Tomato Canapés, Baked Brie with Raspberry Preserves, Stuffed Mushrooms

 

Entrees - Choose Two

Slow Roasted Prime Rib Slow, Salmon with Caper Cream Sauce, Seared Scallops And Gnocchi, Veggie Ricotta Stuffed Peppers, Eggplant Rollatini  

 

Dessert For Two

Chocolate Lava Cake

Fried Cheesecake with Strawberries

Red Velvet Cake

Super Bowl XLVIII Party

    

 

Super Bowl Party

6 PM, Sunday, Feb. 2 

NEW JERSEY

 

Popcorn, Pub Chips and Happy Hour !!

 

We will have Happy Hour going (1/2 price G-Vegas Nachos, $.25 Wings, 3 free toppings any pizza) in the pub for the whole game and the Ale House popcorn machine will be running. Free popcorn for everyone, pub chips too!

 

Even though the Pats aren't playing, we can still have a party!
Fat Tuesday - March 4, Creole Food Fest

    

Fat Tuesday  

Remember that day before Ash Wednesday when all the observers of Lent are getting all their bad out and this is the last day to do it, the baddest day?  

 

Well, the best way to do it and not get in trouble, is with food. And so for one day only, we put out a Creole food fest in Mardi Gras fashion and then as quickly as Ash Wednesday comes it all goes away and you would never know anyone was bein' bad or bein' anything.

 

Look at that lady. Is she bad? Absolutely.

Ah Ciao!

All that stuff above is simply to distract us from the cold and dark.  Pretty sweet, right?  I swear, sometimes for a whole minute I can actually forget that I am freezing my gear off  and that it's winter.  A whole minute!  That's distraction. 

 

I hope that, forthwith, a break in winter will soon occur, pointing the way out to the deck, where we all belong.  

 

With all that went into getting that temple to the sun going, we surely must use it till it dries up and blows away. And looking at the under structure, I think the restaurant will blow away before this  

 

Wishing you all a warm fire and a full (but emptying) glass.

 

 

 

ciao

 

Thanks for being there!

 

 

Rick Walton

Always Here

 

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BEACH PARTY &  

Bob Marley Night

9:30 till ??

 

Thursday, Feb. 6, 6 PM

Southern Comfort Beer Dinner

 Friday, Feb. 14

Valentine's Day  

Dinner For Two

5 PM till 10 PM

Lovely Live Music with  

Secret Sage 

One-of-a kind Menu

 

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Summer's End (5.0% ABV, German Kolsch), Chair City Pale Ale (5.1% ABV, American Pale Ale),  Facelift IPA (6.3% ABV British/American Hybrid IPA), Dunkelweizen (4.9% ABV, German Dark Wheat Beer), Winter Lager (5.9% ABV, German Dark Lager), Naked Stout (3.9% ABV, Irish Dry Stout), Wicked Big Stout(8.2 % ABV, Russian Imperial Stout)

 

 Coming Friday. . . 

 

Dave's Double
This Friday, January 31, 2014
8.9% ABV, German Double Bock Lager




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