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ADK North Country

  • Deer’s Head Inn ~ Elizabethtown, NY
  • UpRiver Cafe – Lake Luzerne, NY
  • “Barred” ~ The Adirondack Bartenders Challenge
  • Grist Mill Restaurant ~ Warrensburg

Hudson Valley

  • End Cut ~ New Paltz
  • Essie’s Restaurant ~ Poughkeepsie
  • Duo Bistro ~ Kingston, NY
  • Aroma Osteria ~ Wappingers Falls

Off the Trail

  • A Cassoulet worth a 700 mile drive?
  • A Weekend in Old Port ~ Quebec City
  • A Weekend in Burlington, Vermont ~ With Dinner at Hen of the Wood
  • New York City Broadway Theater District Bistros

Home Cooking

  • Home Cured Pork Tenderloin Salumi
  • My Absolute Favorite Turkey Gravy Recipe
  • Shishitos, my new favorite peppers.
  • Rambler’s BBQ Chicken

A Cassoulet worth a 700 mile drive?

By JC Steiniger March 6, 2017

If you drive north from Quebec City through the Jacques Cartier Parc and continue through another one hundred miles of boreal forest, you will arrive at the town of Jonquiere, a suburb of Saguenay in central Quebec. The Auberge Villa Pachon is located there, on the banks of the Aux Sables River. Three years ago we read an article about the chef there, and the cassoulet he prepares. We drove seven hours from our home in the Adirondacks to try it.

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Deer’s Head Inn ~ Elizabethtown, NY

By JC Steiniger August 15, 2016

Deer’s Head Inn fans can rejoice in the restaurant’s reincarnation, and be assured that the new operation preserved what was best about the old – the small town “community center” vibe of the place. That welcoming atmosphere is complemented by a new pub style menu with a local focus, a very nice bar, and a country store alongside to stock up for the trip home.

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End Cut ~ New Paltz

By JC Steiniger August 3, 2016

End Cut is yet another great addition to the New Paltz dining scene. It is located in a neighborhood cluster of favorite destinations on Church Street, including Hokkaido, and newcomer, Huckleberry. Proprietor, Jordan Schor, who also brought you Jordan’s Bistro & Pizzeria in New Paltz and Solstice in Kingston, opened his newest restaurant last year.

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Essie’s Restaurant ~ Poughkeepsie

By JC Steiniger July 14, 2016

Essie’s Restaurant, a new bistro style eatery in Mount Carmel in downtown Poughkeepsie, is the newest addition to the city’s growing list of upscale dining establishments. The space most recently was home to Cafe Bocca, and those of a certain age will remember Sardi’s grocery, which operated there for over seventy years. We started hearing about the new restaurant months before they opened, in part because of the reputation of the proprietor, Brandon Walker.

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A Weekend in Old Port ~ Quebec City

By JC Steiniger June 15, 2016

Quebec City has long been on our list of favorite destinations, brimming with great restaurants and shopping, some fabulous hotels, and numerous art galleries and antique shops. As you might expect, Quebec has a fantastic selection of French restaurants, offering everything from fine dining and haute cuisine to classic bistro standards.

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Duo Bistro ~ Kingston, NY

By JC Steiniger June 1, 2016

Duo is in Kingston’s uptown Stockade District, just a pitching wedge away from two of our long time favorites – Boitson’s Bistro and le Canard Enchaine. Duo Bistro joined these two standouts in the spring of 2012. Chef Juan Romero’s menu is delightfully original, combining local farm products with creative and well prepared recipes.

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UpRiver Cafe – Lake Luzerne, NY

By JC Steiniger May 19, 2016

If you have been coming to the Adirondacks long enough, you have been to this place, or one just like it. Before the Northway, there was Route 9, running from Westchester to the Canadian border. Route 9 weaved its way through every town on the map, and every town had a roadside restaurant, maybe two, that looked just like UpRiver Cafe.

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Aroma Osteria ~ Wappingers Falls

By JC Steiniger May 5, 2016

It’s hard to imagine now, but thirty years ago there were no restaurants serving authentic rustic home style Italian food anywhere in the Hudson Valley. Back then, Italian meant red sauce and pasta and more often than not what you were served were “Italian-American” dishes like garlic bread with veal or chicken parmigiana or lobster fra Diavolo, or shrimp scampi (none of which would be found in Italy). Oh, how times have changed….

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Global Palate Restaurant ~ West Park, NY

By JC Steiniger April 27, 2016

If I were in real estate I would say that Global Palate is centrally located between Kingston and Highland. Located in the old roadhouse that housed Marcel’s in days of yore, the restaurant’s dining room, and the bar in particular, have always been on my list of favorites. If you had a dream about a 1960’s neighborhood bistro, this is probably what you would dream about.

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A Weekend in Burlington, Vermont ~ With Dinner at Hen of the Wood

By JC Steiniger April 21, 2016

The Hotel Vermont in Burlington, appearing on many “Best of Vermont” lists in travel magazines, had been on our wishlist of weekend destinations for years. It also has the distinction of being next door to Hen of the Wood restaurant, which, if truth be told, was the real reason for our trip to Burlington.

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North Country Rambler is a personal blog about our favorite dining destinations in "upstate" New York. Posts are not intended to be "critiques" or "reviews" in the classic sense. We do not criticize any establishments (at least not intentionally). If we do not like a venue, you will not read about it here. We only write about the restaurants that we enjoy. Our focus is on bistros, usually ethnic. We prefer a crock of cassoulet and a bottle of Beaujolais to just about anything else. We do not accept any advertising on the blog, we pay for all of our own meals, and we do not accept any remuneration from any establishments mentioned in the blog unless we can drink said remuneration before we leave.

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