Oakdale: Beer and bourbon bash
Portrait of the Blue Point Brewing Co.'s co-owners, Mark Burford and Peter Cotter and head brewer Alan Brady. Credit: Newsday, 2008 / Thomas A. Ferrara
Friday, Apr. 15, at 7 p.m. will be a time to eat, drink and be merry at Snapper Inn in Oakdale, when the restaurant stages a Blue Point Brewery beer & Maker's Mark bourbon dinner.
The four course meal, at $50 a person, is as follows:
Reception: Passed hors d’oeuvres; Maker's Mark cocktail
First Course: Trio: Beer-battered fried oyster, seared scallop, spicy tuna roll; Blue Point Spring Fling
Second Course: Mixed field greens, mandarin oranges with ginger orange viniagrette, accompanied by oatmeal sesame clusters; Blue Point Oatmeal Stout
Third Course: Maker’s Mark bourbon marinated skirt steak topped with smoked hops plum tomato salsa, potato au gratin, haricot verts; Blue Point Toasted Lager
Fourth Course: Homemade peach ice cream, Maker’s Mark 46-soaked peaches brulee with chocolate cigar; Maker’s Mark 46 Bourbon
If you’re neither a beer nor a bourbon drinker, the restaurant will gladly substitute a glass of house wine.
Snapper Inn is at 500 Shore Dr., Oakdale, 631-589-0248.
Photo: Blue Point Brewing Company's co-owners, Mark Burford, Peter Cotter and head brewer, Alan Brady.
