|
Boone area offers taste of fall favorites |
|
Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
 Photo by Anna Donlan
|
by ASHLEY BENNERS
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
This autumn, finding seasonal dishes in the Boone and Blowing Rock area is made easy.
Listed below are five local restaurants teeming with pumpkin-flavored sweets and other unique Halloween-inspired treats.
Kilwins Ice Cream
103 Main St., Blowing Rock
At $13.95 per pound, Kilwin’s offers pumpkin walnut fudge and with each pound customers receive half a pound free.
Also available is pumpkin ice cream, candy corn, and chocolate mini-monsters, said manager Abby Mclaurin.
Moonshine Café
142 South Water St., Boone
The Moonshine
Café currently offers an “Autumn Sunday,” made with two apple cinnamon
caramel cookies, cinnamon ice cream, whipped cream, caramel syrup, and
topped off with baked cinnamon apples, said manager Mark Brown.
Starting next
week, more season favorites will be offered, including pumpkin yam soup
and “Blood Curry,” made with whipped beets and eggplant to give the
dish a deep red coloring.
Our Daily Bread
627 West King St., Boone
For the fall season, Our Daily Bread offers pumpkin white chocolate chip cheesecake and pumpkin bars.
Also offered is
pumpkin bread, which is served year-round, but now are sweeter and
topped with cream cheese icing, said manager Cory Summer.
Also available are various kinds of pumpkin ale, including Shipyard Pumpkin Head and Harpoon Winter Warmer.
Melanie’s Food Fantasy
664 W. King St., Boone
In addition to
homemade pumpkin pie, Melanie’s will serve pumpkin French toast on
various days of the week this autumn. This dish is similar to regular
French toast, with the addition of pumpkin creme cheese between slices,
said server Josh Stevenson.
Crippen’s Country Inn and Restaurant
239 Sunset Dr., Blowing Rock
Though they may
not serve any seasonal dishes, Crippen’s will serve Halloween-themed
wines during the month of October, said manager Sharon Walker.
Choices include
Lanquedoc’s Vampire Pinot Noir, Evil Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles’
Vampire Cabernet Sauvignon, and Hope Estate’s “The Ripper,” which is a
Shiraz.
Trackback(0)
 |
Lifestyles 
TrackBack URI for this entry
Show/Hide comments
