Restaurant Week Spotlight: Birdsall House

If you haven't already, make your reservations now. Hudson Valley Restaurant Week runs from March 18 until March 31. It is a time when many participating restaurants offer prix fixe lunches for $20.95 and dinners for $29.95. 

The annual event, in it's sixth year, entices people to venture outside of their local areas to try new restaurants. It also brings tourists from outside the region to Hudson Valley towns and cities to see what they have to offer. Last year, the event drew more than 200,000 people to 160 restaurants. 

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Leading up to the week, we asked our five local participating restaurants (see list below) a few questions about their offerings. We will post answers as they are provided. Please read owner John Sharp's thoughts below. Also, feel free to leave a review of Birdsall House, or any other local restaurant, on Patch Places. 

Q: What is the best thing about restaurant week?

A: Best thing about RW is that people are inspired to travel more and to try new places.  During the two weeks of RW the Birdsall House will host people from all over the county and hudson valley, which is great for Peekskill.   RW helps expose what a wonderful city we live in.

Q: What is on the menu:

A: Dinner offerings include poached pear and quinoa salad, country pork pate, goat cheese en croute, blackend shrimp and grits, chicken pot pie, vanilla bean cotta, chocalate devil’s food cake.

Lunch offerings include soup or chili, mixe greens, chicken liver pate, beet and grain burger and fries, pulled pork sandwich, bleu waldorf salad, sweet potato and bacon mac and cheese, vanilla bean panna cotta, chocolate devil’s food cake, caramel apple bread pudding.

View the menu here: http://www.birdsallhouse.net/hudson-valley-restaurant-week/

Q: Who decides the menu?

A: The Chef decides the menu. We are blessed to have an amazing talent in our chef March Walker. He has complete creative control to delight with his menu creations.  

Q: What is your favorite dish?
A: The Blackened Shrimp and Grits.  I have always stated the Birdsall Menu consists of creative american cuisine with a slight Southern accent.  Well this dish embodies that concept.

Q: Are reservations recommended? 
A: Reservations are an absolute must.  We have been taking reservations for the 2 weeks of RW for months now.

Q: Are your desserts homemade?

A: Yes, everything at the Birdsall House is home made all the way down to the condiments.  

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If you'd like, you can review Birdsall House . The other local estabilshments participating in RW are The, The Woods at Hollow Brook Golf Club and 

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