Christmas and the New Year...

We pride ourselves on being a Tavern that serves locally brewed beer, but the brewing tradition in this country has roots in England and Europe and without those roots the beer industry in America (craft or otherwise) wouldn't be what it is today.

On the eve of Christmas Eve 2010 (12/23) the Birdsall House will honor the English branch of America's brewing roots by hosting holiday beers from Ridgeway Brewery, from South Stoke, England.

Check out the draught list.

Draught List Update

We've been getting some seriously fantastic beers in lately!  We've just tapped Lagunitas Brown Shugga, Hill Farmstead Edward (not many kegs of this around), Troeg's Mad Elf & Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard.  We also have a slew of winter/Christmas beers in the pipeline.

Sunday Brunch includes a complimentary Bloody Mary, Mimosa or Beer!

And let's not forget about Happy Hour:

$5 draughts, $1 off well drinks and $4 appetizers from 4-7pm M-F

Late Night Happy Hour from 10-Mid-night EVERYDAY:  $3 pints of Goose Island 312 Urban Wheat

Big Beers Are Here

Happy Holidays!  The Birdsall House draught list is getting lethal:

Dogfish Head Olde School 15%
21st Amendment Hop Crisis 10.8%
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout 10%
Keegan Hurricane Kitty 12%.

We've also recently tapped a keg of Anchor Steam Christmas 2010.

Sierra Nevada Celebration as well as a few other holiday beers will be in next week.

If you haven't made New Year's Eve plans yet, check out what we'll be doing here.

Brunch Menu for Nov. 14th

Buttermilk Pumpkin Pancake Breakfast

Two over-easy eggs, crispy bacon, maple syrup

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House-Smoked Ham and Egg Sandwich

Scrambled eggs, malt mayo, wilted spinach, Adirondack Black Wax Cheddar,

bacon, Wild Hive whole wheat bun, French fries

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Portobello and Camembert Omelette

Black-eyed pea and potato cakes, mesclun salad, sun-dried tomato pesto, crème fraîche

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Corned Beef Hash

Fingerling potatoes, cast-iron fried egg, wilted spinach, bacon, country toast, apple butter

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Biscuits and Gravy

Buttermilk biscuits, southern-style giblet gravy, collard greens, bacon, soft-poached egg

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Sweet Maple-Glazed Pork Belly

Bulgur wheat and butternut squash pancakes, apple syrup, peanut brittle, maple gastrique

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Deep-Fried Soft-Boiled Egg

Mascarpone Wild Hive soft polenta, wilted spinach, roasted mushrooms, spicy sofrito

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Huevos Rancheros

Apple and mesclun salad, blue corn tortilla, black beans, scrambled eggs,

house-made chorizo, tomatillo salsa, sour cream, lime wedges

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Blackened Shrimp and Grits

Mascarpone Wild Hive soft polenta, wilted baby spinach, Cajun cream, cornmeal-fried okra

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Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Barleywine & Charcuterie...

We can't wait for Chapter 2!

Why I Love Birdsall House, Chapter 1: Pork and Beer
(in which our heroine samples barley wine and yields to the sinister charms of charcuterie)

A hearty greeting, a modest table, and — be still my heart — projected scenes from Fritz Lange’s Metropolis and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Folks, you could not get me out of this place with a crowbar, and that was even before the barley wine and charcuterie. Let’s just say that if this dish were a man, I’d accompany it to the men’s room: we’re talking pork terrine with lemony mustard-seed caviar, spicy lamb sausage with red-onion jam, and a seared bacon lardon with apple butter and mesclun. I LOOOOVE Birdsall House.

Julia Sexton - Westchester Magazine