Menus part two

DINNER


Appetizers

$7

Black-eyed Pea Fritters with Chive Sour Cream
Warm Crab Dip with Artichokes, Fontina Cheese, and Pita Chips
Coconut Shrimp with Jalapeno Mango Sauce
Corn Fritters with Cajun Remoulade
Baked Brie with a Brown Sugar, Walnut Bourbon Crust Served with Fresh Granny Smith Apple Slices

Fried Plantains with Fresh Mango Salsa


Soups

$5

Crab Bisque
Caramelized Onion Soup with Fontina cheese
Soup du Jour


Salads

$4

House Salad with Creamy Peppercorn Dressing
Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons

$10

Sautéed Shrimp Salad with Sundried Tomatoes, Apples, and Blue Cheese
in a Lemon Poppyseed Dressing over Baby Spinach Leaves

Cobb Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette Layered with Fried or grilled Chicken or Salmon, Tomatoes, Red Onions, Avocadoes, Bacon, Eggs and Blue Cheese

Baby Spinach Salad topped with Grilled Beef Tenderloin, Marinated Sundried Tomatoes, Red Onions, and a Hot Bacon Dressing

Caribbean Jerk Marinated Grilled Chicken over Wasabi Pasta Salad with Julienne Veggies and Coconut Vinaigrette

Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons topped with choice of fried or grilled, Chicken, Salmon, Scallops or Shrimp


Pastas

$14

Grandma Leone’s Housemade Meatballs with Tomato Herb Sauce over angel hair pasta with Mozzarella au Gratin

Pasta Marsala with Grilled Chicken, Mushrooms, Green Onions and Tomatoes over angel hair pasta

Cheese Filled Tortellini with a Wild Mushroom Tomato Ragout

Sauteed Shrimp with Shitake Mushrooms, Scallions, Tri-colored Peppers and Carrots in a Red Curry Coconut Sauce Tossed with Rice Noodles

Entrees

$14 Shrimp, Tasso Ham, Spinach, and Tomatoes in a Parmesan Cream Sauce over Stone Ground Grits

$16 Jambalaya with Shrimp, Scallops, Fish, and Chicken in a Spicy Tomato Sauce over Red Rice

Served with choice of two: buttermilk smashed potatoes, sweet potato puree, stone ground parmesan grits, red rice, collard greens, house veggie, fried green beans, blue cheese slaw

$18 Gorgonzola and Green Onion crusted Ribeye with Roasted Garlic Demi
$22 Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Balsamic Marinated Pearl Onions
$16 Baked Chicken Topped with Brie cheese, Walnuts, Granny Smith Apple and Honey Bourbon
Sauce

$16 Cajun Rubbed Center-cut Bone In Pork Chop with Honey BBQ Glaze
$16 Cornmeal Battered Fried Whole Flounder with Cajun Remoulade
$18/$24 Cornmeal Battered Fried or Grilled Combination Platter: Choice of two or three: Shrimp, Scallops, Flounder, Salmon, Chicken Tenders

$18 Fried Crabcakes with a Jalapeno Mango Sauce
$ 16 Coconut Fried or Grilled Salmon with Wasabi Vinaigrette
$14 Flounder Tacos with Fresh Mango Salsa, Avocado slices, Cabbage, and Chive Sour Cream

We have menus!

After a couple of requests, I bow to demand :)

The Central Grille Menu

LUNCH

Appetizers

$7

Black-eyed Pea Fritters with Chive Sour Cream
Warm Crab Dip with Artichokes, Fontina Cheese, and Pita Chips
Coconut Shrimp with Jalapeno Mango Sauce
Corn Fritters with Cajun Remoulade
Baked Brie with a Brown Sugar, Walnut Bourbon Crust Served with Fresh Granny Smith Apple Slices
Fried Plantains with Fresh Mango Salsa


Soups

$5

Crab Bisque
Caramelized Onion Soup with Fontina cheese
Soup du Jour


Salads

$4

House Salad with Creamy Peppercorn Dressing
Ceaser Salad with Garlic Croutons

$8

Sautéed Shrimp Salad with Sundried Tomatoes, Apples, and Blue Cheese
in a Lemon Poppyseed Dressing over Baby Spinach Leaves

Cobb Salad with Red Wine Vinaigrette, Layered with Fried or Grilled Chicken or Salmon, Tomatoes, Red Onions, Avocadoes, Bacon, Eggs and Blue Cheese

Baby Spinach Salad topped with Grilled Beef Tenderloin, Marinated Sundried Tomatoes, Red Onions, and a Hot Bacon Dressing

Caribbean Jerk Marinated Grilled Chicken over Wasabi Pasta Salad with Julienne
Veggies and Coconut Vinaigrette

Caesar Salad with Garlic Croutons topped with your choice of fried or grilled, Chicken, Salmon, Scallops or Shrimp

Sandwiches

$9

Served with fries, sweet potato chips, or blue cheese slaw

Grilled Reuben on Rye Bread with Pastrami, Swiss Cheese, Kraut,
1000 Island Dressing

Grilled Ribeye Sandwich on Sourdough Bread with Boursin Cheese Spread, and Shoestring Fried Onions

Fried Crab Cake Sandwich on a Kaiser Roll with Grilled Red Onion,
Lettuce, Tomato, and a Cajun Aioli

Honey Almond Chicken Salad on a Kaiser Roll with Lettuce, and Tomato Slices

Chargrilled Burger Stuffed with Wild Mushrooms and Blue Cheese on Sourdough,
topped with Lettuce, Tomato and Peppery Mayo

Entrees

$9 Shrimp, Tasso Ham, Spinach, and Tomatoes in a Parmesan Cream Sauce over Stone Ground Grits

$10 Jambalaya with Shrimp, Scallops, Fish, and Chicken in a Spicy Tomato Sauce over Red Rice

$12 Cornmeal Battered Fried or Grilled Combination Platter: Choice of two: Shrimp, Scallops, Flounder, Salmon, Chicken Tenders with fries or sweet potato chips, and slaw

$8 Flounder Tacos with Fresh Mango Salsa, Avocado slices, Cabbage, and Chive Sour Cream

$9 Grandma Leone’s Housemade Meatballs with Tomato Herb Sauce over Angel Hair Pasta, and Mozzarella au Gratin

$9 Cheese Filled Tortellini with a Wild Mushroom Tomato Ragout

$8 Variety Plate: Choice of three: Fries, sweet potato chips, blue cheese slaw, fried green beans, collard greens, house veggie, sweet potato puree, stone ground grits or red rice

Sunny Saturday

We're off to a slow start when I am dying for Summerville to taste the specials!

Pecan crusted oyster salad with blueberry vinaigrette - and-

Seared tuna with collards and a green onion potato cake with Thai sesame ginger sauce.

Wacky Wednesday

Slow Wednesday to follow up a great Tuesday.

Specials: Chicken with angel hair pasta and a Brie cheese sauce

Sesame crusted Tuna over a greek pasta salad with balsamic reduction and basil oil.

Tropical Tuesday

A Tuesday is for nasty weather, large parties, smooth shifts and awesome specials!
Lunch: Meatloaf from fresh ground beef, Ribeye and tenderloin scraps!

Grouper cakes on mixed greens with Brie cheese fondue. The salad part makes eating the fondue less guilty-feeling

Dinner: Veal scaloppine tossed with cranberries pecan and honey on puff pastry
and sesame seed crusted tuna over rice noodles tossed with carrots, green onions, zucchini and tomatoes with a Thai sesame ginger sauce.

Good things, good people and a nice day even though the weather is not.

Another picture

Forward to Today

A picture that was taken at the restaurant today to contrast how we looked before and after.

A Blast from the Past

I found this picture of what we looked like before. We don't look like this anymore!

Adding the inevitable counter

Hope everyone had a terrific Sunday!

My family and fellow coworker's family did the local waterpark together.

Sunburns abound!!

What a night...

Wow, what a wonderful Friday night.

Tonight's specials: Veal Marsala - that made me hungry when I first saw it, even though I had already eaten.

Paella - which I adore. A total favorite for anyone who tried it. Really, how can anyone go wrong with shrimp, scallops, fish, chicken, and chorizo in saffron butter broth over Basmati rice?

Haddock topped with apples, crab and hazelnuts. Yum!

I know I promised pics - coming soon!

When Computers Crash

C program run

C program crash

C programmer Quit.

Why, oh why, do the computers alway hiccup when I am here? Total system lockup. I know the help desk at Aloha is tired of hearing my voice. Thankfully it happened before dinner service.

For dinner tonight a delicious pork chop with blackberry cranberry compote that brought tears to the eyes.

Me? I ate a Caesar salad with shrimp. Yum.

Hopefully pics coming tomorrow.

Just getting started

Well, from the beginning of an idea -

to a concept -

to an actual restaurant.

We did it. We have been open for three weeks and things are settling in nicely. I hope this is going to be a home for all of us to share a little something of ourselves. What we are, and what we go through; tiny bits of what it is like to work, work hard, for a dream.

It has become our dream too.

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