There's this wonderful restaurant in the mountains of North Carolina called The Gamekeeper. The menu is wonderful and varied. They have your common fine dining cuisine such as beef and fish, even a nice large garden salad. Yet, as the name implies, their forte is in wild game.
On our, mine and my wife's, last trip to Boone, NC we met my dad and step-mom for dinner at The Gamekeeper. From the moment you pull up to this renovated house (after safely steering up 3 miles of curvy mountain road) you feel you are somewhere different. Valet takes your car and you step up onto the deck to take in a great view, which I recommend getting there before the sun goes down. Upon entering there is a wonderful staff and a great atmosphere, but we all know you wanna hear about the food.
So, onto the plates. We began the evening with a meat sampler; this was comprised of antelope, buffalo, buffalo sausage, and their "predetor and prey" sausage (this is the combined meats of rattlesnake and rabbit in the same sausage skin). These came with a serving of steak fries and three dipping sauces; homemade honey-mustard with a kick of horseradish, sweet barbeque with a mesquite taste, and horseradish sour-cream (the dinner party's favorite). This was promtly followed by our entree. Everyone enjoyed different items, I ordered the pheasant which was plesantly spicy served on top of some nice fresh spinach to cool off the spice. The best dish of the night went to my wife with her duck...tender, not overly seasoned and delicious. So tender I would have sworn it was filet mignong. We finished the night with an after dinner irish coffee and an acorn squash stuffed with pumpkin cheesecake and a topping of whipped cream with a caramel sauce on the side, this was slightly underwhelming after the dinner, but still quite tasty.
The dinner was wonderful and the company of family only made it better. If you are now curious about this restaurant, I recommend seeking it out. Mind you the menu changes on a almost daily basis as some items are in short supply, but everything you have there will please...or at least, everything I've had there has. So, I hope I peeked a curiousity somewhere and left you drooling. I'll send out an invite next time I'm going to Boone in hopes of sharing this experience with another couple at another time. If you have not followed any of the above links, again, visit www.gamekeeper-nc.com.
Good evening :)
(Smiley face added to take away from austire tone used throughout this blog, thank you and goodnight.)
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