RHINECLIFF INN/Rhinebeck ...after the rains came a Local sun

The weather outside was frightful (would you believe hail in July...like Hammel's Snow in August)...but the hospitality and music and fireworks at the Rhinecliff in were warm. Thank you proprietor with Brit/Ciprianis provenance, James Chapman. And while we have previously reviewed the Inn food and Terapin in Rhinebeck and while the food and service at the Inn remain superb (jeanne still raves about Chapman's aunts Thanksgiving nut loaf), this time the food fireworks were on market street at Local a Rhinebeck revolutionary situated a block from the 18th century Beekman Hotel and
the training site for G. Washingtons soldiers. Happy 4th!

dumplings

humous and toastedwheat pitas

Sesame Noodles in a twirl made with capalini

Beet salad

margarita like cocktail 

crisp and bean

BEETS

AMUSE

Hurricane Arthur had an impact on the 3rd and much of the 4th but by 5 or so the skies began to clear. And dinner began on the loft floor of local with west coast oysters and served with a sorbet and a relish..JR had a beet salad that was presented with ruffles and flourishes. The chicken dumplings in sweet and sour broth were light ,glycine and could be right anytime any place. The apple crisp with vanilla bean ice cream was a firecracker of a desert,,,,and Jeanne's cocktail was a steroidal margarita like fix with a grape fruity burst. The special CA

sauvignon was just fruity enough. We missed the hoedown and the duck at local and the BBQ at the in and the new Smoked BBQ in town but the main reason to return soon is to sit on the terrace of our pine floored room and watch the barges on the Hudson and the trains on the tracks that drop you off right there. She'll be comin'

The Morning after The Declaration B DAY

Earl Grey

with sun

without

hail

Remembering rain in the catskills

Skies clearing

      

round the mountain and so will we. Toot!...