Restaurant Roundup: New Sunday brunch, daily casserole special, fry bread pizza
Feb. 10, 2022
A neighborhood pub has added Sunday brunch. Roundhouse Brew Pub offers 11 choices, ranging from a traditional breakfast plate and omelets to French toast and pizzas. Kids can get French toast or a breakfast quesadilla. Gluten-free toast and pizza crust are available. Brunch is served from 9 a.m. to noon.
Love a comfort casserole? Crack’d Pot Restaurant & Bakery on North Minnesota Avenue is running a daily lunch special with rotating choices. Monday is chicken noodle casserole; Tuesday, cream of chicken on biscuits; Wednesday, hamburger stroganoff; Thursday, cheesy goulash; and Friday, tuna noodle casserole. “We’ve used the same recipes since we opened in 1974, and we’ve always ran casseroles off and on, but we just decided to make it an everyday thing,” owner Alex Andersen said. “With prices increasing everywhere you go, we wanted to give the consumer something hearty and reasonable at only $7.49.” Meals come with soup or salad, and they’re served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Check out the new fry bread pizza that’s part of the new spring menu at Watecha Bowl. Choices include taco, beef, bison and vegan.
Every month, Harvester Kitchen by Bryan offers a new tasting menu so diners can sample the multiple styles of cuisine offered by chef Bryan Moscatello. February’s five-course offering starts with house rolled spaghetti, followed by butter poached sablefish, fried chicken and prime beef strip loin. It ends with honey roasted eggplant for dessert. The meal is $79. Add wines paired with each course for $59.
FatKid Saloon in Salem has created a wing-eating challenge with a mouth-burning twist. Eat 16 wings doused in a housemade Reaper pepper sauce and drink a hot 16-ounce beer or soda in 16 minutes. Losers have to pay $25 for the food and drink. Winners get a $50 bar tab and their name on the wall. No one has attempted the feat yet, owner Cody Sauers said.
Club David is hosting a taco-making contest Saturday for the Sioux Empire Pride Sports Association. It’s $5 for an all-you-can eat meal from 6 to 8 p.m. To enter the contest, send an email to [email protected], with “attention Damon” in the subject line.
With several more weeks of winter, according to the expert groundhog, Fernson Downtown is offering an additional igloo to provide a heated drinking space on its patio. In their second year, the igloos have themes, and the new one is “outfitted just like your Uncle Ray’s basement. The Brick House Igloo is a love letter to the ’70s.” While reservations for the greenhouse and cottage igloos can be booked online, you’ll have to call 605-789-2012 to reserve The Brick House. Walk-ins also are available. The fee is $50 for 90 minutes, and the first round of drinks is included.
Enjoy variety to sipping bloody marys on Sundays with a new flight of them at Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse. The downtown tasting room offers original, Mary in a Pickle, Spicy Maria and Winey Mary with a traditional tap beer chaser. Regular pints of bloody marys are available too. Hours on Sunday at 2 to 6 p.m.
The bartenders at Granite City Food & Brewery have three new cocktails this month that are inspired by Valentine’s Day. Bre’s Love Potion is a Rumchata-based martini with butterscotch schnapps and a splash of grenadine, topped with glitter and a strawberry. There’s also Cupid’s Arrow and a Chocolate Old Fashioned.
The owners of The Cookie Jar Eatery started making fudge just a few months ago using recipes from the former Young & Richards Flower Shop, and they’ve created two flavors for February: Cherry Bing Bar and Chocolate Covered Cherry. The bakery is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Tuesday through Friday in Shriver Square at 11th and Phillips.
Bring the kids to Pomegranate Market from 4 to 6 p.m. on Valentine’s Day for cookie decorating. Decorate a sugar cookie for yourself or as a treat for someone else.
Changes in service, hours
Jacky’s Restaurant has temporarily closed its East Eighth Street location “until further notice due to staffing, planning, renovations and setting up new goals to better serve you.” The East 10th Street and The Empire Mall locations remain open, along with Jacky’s Burrito Express on West 12th Street. “We hope to see you again when we come back stronger than ever,” the restaurant said in a post on social media.
Wine Time on Main is open until 7 tonight, selling only bottles of wine to go, and after that will be open by appointment only until the end of the month. Call 605-360-7126 for an appointment.
The Barrel House will be closed from 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday to prepare for and serve the annual Hungry Hearts Chefs Dinner. The sold-out meal brings in top chefs to help raise money to provide local students with lunch money, supplies, winter apparel and snacks. The restaurant will reopen to the public at 9:30 p.m. for live music.
The new Boss’ Pizzeria & Sports Bar in Tea has its delivery service up and running. It’s offered from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.
And another Tea business is trying out delivery. Zooks Coffee Bar will deliver drinks and food to businesses from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Wednesdays. Reach out through Facebook to reserve a time slot.
Someday Cafe in Baltic will be closed Feb. 17-19. It’s regular hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
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