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Restaurant Name:	COTTONWOOD GRILL

How Many Hearts?:

Address:	913 West River Street Boise, ID 83702

Phone Number:	(208) 333-9800

Type of Food:	Contemporary American

Hours:	7 days

Dress:	Adult

Price Range:	Entrees $15.95-$26.95

Reservations:	Suggested - especially patio dining

Description of Restaurant:

A most attractive space along the Boise River that I was introduced to by local TV producers while I was making appearances on Boise TV. When I finished a scrumptious meal I was so satisfied that I complimented everyone on the dining floor for such an experience -- outstanding!! Fantastic service and fantastic food at the same location!!! UTOPIA!!! Worth a plane ride. Dine, season permitting, on the beautiful patio or in the high ceiling luxurious dining room, with fireplaces surrounded by sandstone and alderwood.

The Food

Specialty Appetizers:

Oysters on the Half Shell @ $10.95 Six Pacific cold water oysters served chilled with mignonette, cocktail sauce and lemon, or Rockefeller, baked with spinach, roasted shallots and Parmesan cheese. Dungeness Crab Cocktail @ $11.95 Fresh North Pacific crab, steamed out of the shell and served chilled with horseradish tomato sauce and lemon.

Specialty Entrees :

Peppered Mahi Mahi @ $23.05 Firm Pacific game fish encrusted with Tellicherry peppercorns, finished with a roasted tarragon tomato butter sauce. Recommended Wine: Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc @ $9.25 Sautéed Atlantic Haddock @ $23.95 Exceptional white mild hook and line fish pan seared golden and served over fresh braised spinach with sauce Provencal. Recommended Wine: Chateau Montelena Chardonnay @ $9.75 Roast Monkfish @ $23.95 Firm white cold water fish, known as the “poor man’s Lobster” cooked whole, sliced and served with an oyster mushroom cream sauce. Recommended Wine: Caldero Alto Adige Pinot Grigio @ $9.25 Muscovy Duck Breast @ $23.95 Fresh farm raised duck pan seared medium, slice and Served with an Idaho huckleberry gastrique. Recommended Wine: L’Ecole No. 41 Syrah @ $8.00 Roast Venison Sirloin @ $22.95 Tender Black Pine Ranch venison sirloin, recommended Medium rare and finished with a green peppercorn demi-glace. Recommended Wine: Topanga Black & White Cabernet @ $8.75

Some Appetizers :

Fried Polenta @ $7.95 Basil and provolone cheese mixed in a soft cornmeal cake, cooked crisp and served with marinara sauce. Olive and Tomato Tapanade @ $6.95 Kalamata olive and sun dried tomato tapanade served with toasted crostini and Rolling Stone Farm goat cheese. Baked Brie @ $8.95 Warm soft French cheese in a light crepe batter, served with lingonberry chutney. Cottonwood Platter @ $11.95 Imported and domestic cheeses, smoked meats and fish served with fresh fruit and assorted crackers. Asian Soy Salad @ $10.95 Marinated tofu, seitan, tempeh on Asian greens with crisp veggies and a sesame soy citrus vinaigrette.

Some Entrees :

Cottonwood Stir Fry @ $14.95 Marinated tofu, seitan and tempeh sautéed with crisp veggies in a citrus soy glace on brown rice. Pan Seared Idaho Trout @ $16.95 Fresh boneless Ruby trout sautéed and finished with a toasted almond butter sauce. Salmon in a Cage @ $17.95 Fresh farm raised salmon filet wrapped in crispy Idaho potato and finished with a lemon beurre blanc. Grilled Prime Sirloin @ $21.95 Aged sirloin steak dusted with cracked peppercorns and served with a creamy peppercorn sauce. Prime Rib @ $24.95 Oven roasted rib rack slow cooked whole, sliced and served au jus with creamed horseradish sauce. New York Strip @ $25.95 Aged 14 oz. strip loin delicately grilled or seared to your desired temperature. Oven Roasted Chicken @ $15.95 Slow roasted Petaluma all-natural chicken, carved off the bone, served with a garlic chicken glace. Seafood Linguini @ $15.95 Tender morsels of fresh fish, shrimp, scallops, clams and mussels with mushrooms and Roma tomato in a dill cream sauce, tossed with fresh spinach pasta. Chicken and Gorgonzola Tortellini @ $16.95 Slow roasted chicken and wild mushrooms cooked in a Gorgonzola cream sauce with fresh three cheese filled pasta. Jumbo Prawn Scampi @ $17.95 Tender jumbo shrimp sautéed in a classic caramelized garlic and white wine butter sauce with fresh capellini pasta.

Desserts:

A must and worth every calorie!!

Wines:

A great wine by the glass list and a most interesting selection of wine.

Your ‘Love Chef’ will long remember this wonderful experience.



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