Local Food Finds

Your weekly dose of some cool food and dining finds around town

New Bakery and Café, Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé!, and Talk Turkey to Me Corner

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• The wait has come to an end! (cue the fanfare music) Tatte Bakery & Café is finally open in the Annapolis Town Center (in the old Brio spot). It offers elegant comfort food on a seasonal menu with Israeli, Mediterranean, and European influences. Try their Winter Farro Bowl (warm farro tossed with roasted broccolini and celery root, topped with a poached egg and served with butternut squash hummus, cranberry glaze, toasted pumpkin seeds, and a feta-pepper dressing), Prosciutto and Fig Panini (fig jam, brie, fontina cheese, prosciutto, and sliced Bosc pear on housemade ciabatta), or Crunchy Halloumi Salad (mixed baby lettuces, seared halloumi cheese, roasted carrots with sesame and raisins, radish, apples, and crunchy almonds, in a tahini vinaigrette). Pair your food with a specialty latte or soda, like their Tatte House Latte (honey-halva and cardamom with espresso) and the Preserved Fig Lemon Mint Soda (housemade fig, lemon, and mint syrup topped with sparkling water and garnished with fresh mint). Oh, and don’t skip the bakery! They offer pastries, muffins, cookies, cheesecake, tarts, galettes, cakes, and Krembos.
  • P.S. Their interior is b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l and they have highchairs!

• Trivia Question: What is known as the world’s fastest wine and released annually on the third Thursday in November? The Beaujolais Nouveau! It’s a fruity French red wine made from Gamay grapes that is bottled and served about six to eight weeks after harvest. Many events, festivals, and fireworks happen in France to celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau. However, you can also celebrate the special wine right here in Annapolis at Café Normandie from November 21 to November 24! Café Normandie is offering a three-course dinner for $75, which includes not one, but two glasses of Beaujolais Nouveau. Santé (cheers)!
• Thanksgiving is next week, and the Local Food Finds column will highlight several restaurants featuring Thanksgiving events, menus, or takeout options every week in November. So stop “stuffing” around and check out these places for your Thanksgiving faves in our last Talk Turkey to Me Corner:
  • Ingrano is offering Thanksgiving takeout, featuring their Turkey Wellington (sous vide turkey breast, creamy mashed potatoes, sausage stuffing, cranberry sauce, and rosemary gravy). Choose “The Works” to feed four to six people for $325. It includes the Turkey Wellington, truffle cream corn, drunken orange cranberry sauce, ground wagyu stuffing, green bean casserole, potato au gratin, mac and cheese, vegetable quiche, and braised spiced cabbage. You can even add pre-batched cocktails like their Apple Butter Rum-Blur (serves eight) and Pear Martini (serves six) for $45 each.
  • Cooper’s Hawk is offering a Thanksgiving Take-Home Kit for $199.99 that serves up to six people. The kit includes butternut squash soup, homemade cranberry sauce, three signature pretzel breads with butter, seasonal roasted carrots and green beans, Mary’s Potatoes (aka mashed potatoes), white and dark meat turkey, stuffing, gravy, and Eli’s Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake. Order by Friday, November 22!
  • Eating out for Thanksgiving? Make your reservations ASAP! Restaurants that are open for dine-in on Thanksgiving Day, with holiday food and/or specials include:
    • Carrol’s Creek – three-course prix fixe menu (prices vary);  kids’ menu
    • Latitude 38 – two buffet selections (traditional Thanksgiving and seafood); $55 for 13 and up, $20 for kids ages 5 to 12, and free for ages 4 and under
    • Rams Head Tavern – three-course Thanksgiving meal
    • Severn Inn – Thanksgiving buffet; $85 for adults; $42 for kids ages 5 to 12
    • Tidewater Inn’s Hunters’ Tavern (in Easton) – Thanksgiving buffet; $64 for adults;  $26 for kids ages 5 to 12, and free for ages 4 and under