Cheers to Fine Fare
Restaurant Week Columbus
By Kimberly M. Stolz |
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Sup on savory delights and craft brews at CBC!
This month, Restaurant Week can be your culinary wingman. Restaurant Week can not only help you find new places, but it can also re-introduce your palate to old friends. Take the Columbus Brewing Company. Their seasonal Winter Warmer ale, spiced up for the low temps with a higher alcohol content amid notes of ginger and cinnamon, is worth the visit alone.
While excellent beers are always on tap at CBC, the outstanding Restaurant Week menu price of just $30 for two diners is available for a limited time only. Dinner starts with a choice of their House or Lemon Caesar Salad. For the main course, three entrees are vying for attention, and two of the dishes are long-time patron favorites: Orange-Glazed Atlantic Salmon and Pecan-Crusted Chicken. The salmon is a lovely bit of fish, and, thankfully, Chef Brian Cook is not so besotted with his delicious glaze that he drowns the poor fillet. The glaze is citrusy, savory, and doesn't overwhelm; it hints at sweetness. Set upon a timbale of rice, with four corners of bright, tenderly crisp peppers, this colorful dish might help you forget that it's winter.
The Pecan-Crusted Chicken consists of a chicken breast duo, dressed up in pecans and crispy along the edges, for that great texture-twist of tender and crunchy. An ice-cream scoop of buttermilk mashers corrals any wandering Ohio Honey Wheat mustard sauce. I like to go "old school" with a plate like this - a fork full of chicken, taters, and the sweet corn side all adds up to a mouthful of comfort.
Making its debut on the Restaurant Week menu is Chef's homemade Sausage and Pepper Linguini. The sausage is so delightfully tangy with fennel that you'd never guess a vegetarian chef put the flavorful meaty dish together. The sausage plays well with the marinara and fresh linguini, hand-made by locals Pasta di Toni.
To top it all off, the menu includes a dessert to share for you and your dining partner: either Upside-Down Banana Cream Pie or Baby Key Lime Pie.
With the impressive trio of entree choices, you have no excuse not to re-acquaint yourself with Columbus Brewing Company. The great beer is always there, but you'll want to catch this awesome deal while it lasts.
Columbus Brewing Company
525 Short St.
(614) 464-BREW
www.columbusbrewingco.com
Originally Published: January 1, 2010
