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Good Eating in Jim Thorpe, PA
Jan. 20th, 2015 12:20 pmThe big winner in terms of meals in Jim Thorpe was Encore, on Friday night. It was the sort of meal that starts with bacon-wrapped jumbo shrimp with teriyaki glaze and fruit salsa and just keeps running with it. Also featured were braised beef short rib over an apple-potato pancake; sole and salmon in a shrimp- and red-pepper-pesto; and shellfish in garlic cream sauce on an angel hair “pancake.” And then cherries jubilee. It wasn’t an inexpensive meal, but it was a fabulous one.
(They also had the side benefit of Melissa VanFleet being their house entertainer; she did a selection of pop covers as dark and moody piano tunes and has a remarkable ability to make anything sound wistful. We bought her CD.)
Saturday night we were still pretty full from having dim sum that afternoon, so we opted for pub fare at Broadway Grille & Pub. They do a nice burger, despite a kitchen back-up that night that led to dinner taking much longer than it should have. (I wouldn’t expect that to be a regular occurrence, and the waitress certainly did her best despite it.) I opted not to get elk or buffalo, but if I do ever go back, I want to try their pulled pork.
We had our Sunday dinner at Moya, which involved homemade pasta with crab and cream sauce, which is hard to argue with. I got the special cheese plate as an appetizer, which was a nicely outfitted selection of cheeses along with candied nuts, dried figs and honey. They problem with that was that I’ve been spoiled by Murray’s Cheese tasting and how amazingly well everything they give you pairs with everything else—in this case, the honey was basically only there for the goat cheese, the nuts for the manchego and the figs for the gorgonzola; and that was all you’d want to pair.
Moya offers a cocktail made with whiskey, ginger beer, lime…and lime flavored Bud Light. As you can guess, I did not order this bizarre abomination, though I’m considering just mixing the first three ingredients for myself at some point.
Sunday’s lunch, incidentally, was at Bear Appetit Café, which has middling Yelp reviews and kinda deserves them. It’s nothing fancy and the food is good, not great; but all we wanted was a reasonably-priced soup-salad-sandwich sort of lunch and they delivered that in spades. (Also, the “small” salad and a regular turkey sandwich were too large for us to finish, so points for that.)
(They also had the side benefit of Melissa VanFleet being their house entertainer; she did a selection of pop covers as dark and moody piano tunes and has a remarkable ability to make anything sound wistful. We bought her CD.)
Saturday night we were still pretty full from having dim sum that afternoon, so we opted for pub fare at Broadway Grille & Pub. They do a nice burger, despite a kitchen back-up that night that led to dinner taking much longer than it should have. (I wouldn’t expect that to be a regular occurrence, and the waitress certainly did her best despite it.) I opted not to get elk or buffalo, but if I do ever go back, I want to try their pulled pork.
We had our Sunday dinner at Moya, which involved homemade pasta with crab and cream sauce, which is hard to argue with. I got the special cheese plate as an appetizer, which was a nicely outfitted selection of cheeses along with candied nuts, dried figs and honey. They problem with that was that I’ve been spoiled by Murray’s Cheese tasting and how amazingly well everything they give you pairs with everything else—in this case, the honey was basically only there for the goat cheese, the nuts for the manchego and the figs for the gorgonzola; and that was all you’d want to pair.
Moya offers a cocktail made with whiskey, ginger beer, lime…and lime flavored Bud Light. As you can guess, I did not order this bizarre abomination, though I’m considering just mixing the first three ingredients for myself at some point.
Sunday’s lunch, incidentally, was at Bear Appetit Café, which has middling Yelp reviews and kinda deserves them. It’s nothing fancy and the food is good, not great; but all we wanted was a reasonably-priced soup-salad-sandwich sort of lunch and they delivered that in spades. (Also, the “small” salad and a regular turkey sandwich were too large for us to finish, so points for that.)
