Ring in the New Year at The Living Room

The Living Room Restaurant  at c/o The Maidstone will celebrate New Year’s Eve Monday, December 31st with an early evening a la carte dinner from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. and a $125 four-course prix fixe dinner beginning at 9 p.m.  The menu for the second seating, which includes a glass of champagne, is as follows:

First course

Choice of one

Duck liver and cognac paté with pickled vegetables and mustard sauce

Howard Pickerell’s Peconic Pride oysters with champagne mignonette and caviar

Juniper cured beef tenderloin with chanterelles and cauliflower purée

Pickled pumpkin salad with chevre and roasted walnuts

Second course

Choice of one

Seared Hudson Valley foie gras with Vidalia onion marmalade, apple balsamic and toasted brioche

Lobster bisque with crème fraiche and lobster

Wild mushrooms with a brandy cream on tasted brioche

Peconic Bay scallops with kabocha squash puree and chive beurre blanc

Third course

Choice of one

Smoked beef short rib, apple salad, Vasterbotten potato purée and peppery cranberry red wine sauce

Venison loin grilled with braised red cabbage, candied sweet potatoes and port wine sauce

Muscovy duck breast with parsnip purée, brussel sprout leaves and lingonberry demi-glaze

Monkfish with a lemon glaze, roast baby root vegetables and tournad potatoes

Roasted rack of lamb with a basil infused crust, ratatouille and potato pureé

Local halibut with confit fingerling potatoes, pickled carrot pureé and dill mustard béarnaise

Swedish bouillabaisse with mussels, shrimp, squid, halibut in saffron tomato broth

Dessert course

Choice of one

Sticky toffee date cake w/ Elderberry flower frozen yogurt

Mormor’s cookie plate selection

Chocolate “fika paus” cake with cardamom chocolate sauce

Apple cranberry crisp with cinnamon streusel and maple walnut ice cream

Swedish Christmas ginger cake with lingonberry and mascarpone mousse