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Howard County Restaurant Weeks Guide
Two Elkridge eateries are participating in special fixed-price event.
More than 20 area restaurants will be offering special menus during Howard County’s restaurant weeks from July 18 to Aug. 6 that range from $10.12 to $40.12.
As part of the "Farm-2-Table" theme, participants incorporate local ingredients.
"A lot of the vegetables we’re using aren’t just coming from a farm; they’re coming from our backyard," said Bill Perry of the . “We’ve expanded our organic garden...that’s where we grow most of [our] herbs, and a lot of our lettuce. Across the street, we have about 400 square feet where we’re growing fingerling potatoes."
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The following restaurants are participating in Howard County's restaurant weeks:
Elkridge
- ; $40.12 for four-course dinner
Highlights: Spicy shrimp, sautéed in butter with jalapenos and served with a remoulade sauce; burrito with shrimp, calamari, clams, chicken and pork mixed with peas and red peppers; pineapple with agave rum sauce served with vanilla ice cream.
- ; $35.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Blue cheese puff pastry baked with heirloom tomatoes, topped with caramelized onions and roasted shallot aoli; seared tuna with garlic tomatoes, lavender honey, gnocchi and green beans; New York strip steak with fresh vegetable-infused Bordelaise sauce and roasted fingerling potatoes
Columbia
- ; $39.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: braised pork belly and watermelon salad, flash fried rock shrimp tossed in Chile aioli, tempura fried local soft-shell crab
- ; $10.12 or $14.12 for two or three-course lunch; $39.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Gorman Farm tomato gazpacho (lunch); shrimp, mussel and scallops braised in Chardonnay cream sauce; beef cassoulet with lamb and chicken sausage, white beans and herbs
- ; $22 for three-course lunch; $32 for four-course dinner
Highlights: Maryland crab soup; honey strawberry chicken and brie (lunch); asparagus fries; watermelon feta salad; pork tenderloin glazed with spiced rum BBQ sauce served with coconut risotto, grilled pineapple; warm peach bread pudding
- ; $16.12 for three-course lunch; $30.12 for three course-dinner
Highlights: Dijon marinated sirloin steak (lunch); New York Strip topped with bleu cheese, mushrooms; mahi-mahi with crab imperial and hollandaise sauce
- ; $15 for two-course lunch; $36 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Choose from any lunch or dinner entrée (except the signature steak)
- ; $40.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Tomato and fettuccine salad with basil and black olives; stuffed shrimp with jumbo local crab meat; bronzed mahi-mahi with seafood gumbo and Andouille sausage; grilled NY strip with Pizzioli sauce
- ; menu not yet available.
- The Melting Pot; $30.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Three-course fondue “experience” with your choice of five cheeses withbreads, vegetables and apples for dipping; salad; marinated chicken breast, teriyaki sirloin, shrimp or pasta; chocolate fondue dessert
- ; menu to be released on Facebook.
- (will run July 23 – August 6); menu not yet available.
Ellicott City
- Alexandra’s American Fusion; $25.12 for three-course lunch; $35.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Clark’s Farm ratatouille; Rosetta Farms black angus NY strip with fingerling potato salad; Maryland crab cakes; Larriland Farm Glengo peach napoleon with pastry cream and phyllo
- ; $20. 12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Mini bruschetta; rack of lamb with garlic mashed potatoes and cabernet sauce; pan-seared halibut with sweet corn sauce and arugula salad
- ; $32.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Watermelon gazpacho; Treuth New York strip steak with a roasted tomato demi-glaze and caramelized onions; fresh berries napoleon with whipped cream
- ; $30.12 for three-course dinner
Highlights: Breaded and fried risotto balls stuffed with peas, thyme and pancetta; pan-fried Chesapeake Bay soft shell crab with arugula and tomato salsa; braised brisket over linguine with sautéed mushrooms; chocolate chip cannolis with cinnamon cocoa powder; lemon sorbet from Great Falls Ice Cream topped with raspberries and chopped basil
- ; $13.12 for three-course lunch; $32.12 for four-course dinner
Highlights: Maryland tomato topped with jumbo lump crab meat and Vidalia onion; homemade focaccia topped with pear, red onion, walnuts and Gorgonzola; grilled hearts of romaine and portabella mushroom (lunch); Ahi tuna wrapped in bacon with mushroom demi-glaze; cannoli
- ; $21.95 for three-course lunch; $38.95 for three-course dinner
Highlights: pate de Campagne, Alsation sauerkraut stew with sausages, smoked pork and potatoes; chicken with wild mushrooms and vegetables in a buckwheat crepe; pan seared salmon with lemon grass, clams and coconut milk; house-made sorbet; French custard flavored with espresso
Other Howard County Participants
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