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Back Bay Café — Seasonal Dinner Selections and Specials

Weekend Dinner Specials

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September 3 - 4

Our seafood is fresh and locally caught
Reservations always accepted - 252.944.2870.

Tapa Special

Red Pepper Rouille & Shrimp Toasts - $6

Rouille is a Provencal sauce of roasted red peppers, garlic, paprika and mayonnaise.  Here we use it to top fresh NC shrimp on bread toasts

French Cheeses Sampler - $8.50

First chance to try this month's Featured Cheeses from France: Morbier - pungent, yeasty unpasteurized cow's milk from Jura Mountains; Tomme de Savoie - semi-firm cow's milk from the French Alps; Boucherondin de Chevre - semi-aged goat's milk from Loire Valley

Chef's Specials

Crab & Lobster Ravioli with Herbed Hollandaise Sauce - $15

Nuovo handmade artisanal Ravioli are stuffed with fresh Canadian crab and lobster meat and Italian Ricotta cheese. Topped with Chef Yvonne's Hollandaise Sauce with fresh garden herbs.   Add a Back Bay Crab Cake to the Ravioli plate - $5

Chicken Étouffée - $16

Étouffée is French for smothered or braised.  Here we do a chicken breast with Acre Station Apple-Maple Sausage and serve it on a bed of steamed rice.

Coriander-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Shallot Jus - $17

Lamb ribs braised with spices and red wine.  Served with roasted potatoes (for the "jus")

Fresh Catch of the Day

Crab Cakes 'n Garlic Shrimp - $19

Two of our signature Back Bay Crab Cakes (made with fresh-picked lump crab meat) and some fresh NC shrimp sauteéd with plenty of garlic.  Served with oven-baked potatoes.

Sides - $4.50

Golden Beets 'n Onions - Fresh, organic beets steamed with sweet onions, tamari and spices

Baked Baby Squash - These little acorn-style squash are baked whole and filled with butter & maple syrup

Chef's Dessert Special

Tarte Tatin

France's famous culinary "accident"...an upside down apple pie.  Perfect with a French press of our Featured Ethiopian coffee.

 

Summer Dinner Selections

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Always Different; Always Delicious!

Served with our featured wines.
Friday and Saturday 5:00 - 8:30
Reservations Welcome
252-944-2870

Dinner

Vegetarian

Starters

Soup of the Day
$4.00
There's nothing like a cup of soup to prepare you for your meal.  Ask what we've made up for tonight.
Garden Salad
$5.00
Fresh greens and other seasonal veggies with choice of kitchenmade dressing - Back Bay Sherry Vinaigrette, Buttermilk Ranch or Real Blue Cheese

Mains

8 oz. Filet Mignon
$20.00
An 8 oz. filet (cut by our friends at Acre Station Meat Farm, of course) is grilled to order. Please don’t ask for these beautiful, juicy filets to be cooked “well-done”. Many of our guests say this is the best steak they’ve ever eaten. Served with oven-roasted potatoes.
Crispy Buttermilk Fried Chicken
$15.00
Chicken breast on the bone is soaked in buttermilk and spices then dredged in spiced flour and cooked in olive oil until it's tender and crispy. An American classic done right. Served with roasted potatoes.
Spice Roasted Baby Back Pork Ribs with Apricot Glaze
$16.00
A third of a rack of ribs (from Acre Station, of course) roasted with caraway seeds, smoked Spanish paprika, cumin & garlic, then finished with a glaze of apricot preserves and Dijon mustard. Served with roasted potatoes.
Nuovo Artisanal Ravioli
$15.00
Check our Dinner Specials menu for tonight's selection of handmade ravioli with kitchen-made sauce.

Sides

Our menu is a la carte, so you can eat as much or as little as you like. Our Mains are all served with a small accompaniment, but if you'd like more you can add one or both of the Sides we've indicated on the Dinner Specials menu.
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