The Bistro
Chef Edwin French and his team seek out the freshest, most flavorful vegetables and produce they can find from local, family-owned farms as well as our own Kitchen Garden. We also feature locally farmed mountain trout, Berkshire pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm, local farmstead cheeses, honey, and much more.
Tomato Harvest Lunch Menu
Appetizers
- Fresh Mozzarella and Tomatoes
- Summer basil and red pepper relish
- Smoked Gouda Pimiento Cheese
- Creamy smoked gouda pimiento cheese, grilled pita wedges
- Goat Cheese Bruschetta
- French baguette topped with fresh local strawberries, goat cheese, applewood smoked bacon, balsamic syrup, and peppered biltmore honey reduction
- Smoked Mountain Trout
- House-smoked sorrel's creek trout salad with whole grain mustard and capers, granny smith apples and grilled baguette
Soups & Salads
- Crab And Tomato Bisque
- Creamy tomato bisque finished with fresh basil and lump crab meat
- Yellow Tomato Gazpacho
- Cilantro and lime crème frâiche
- Traditional French Onion Soup
- With melted gruyère and provolone cheeses
- Bistro Signature Salad
- Bibb lettuce, cucumbers, crumbled gorgonzola, applewood smoked bacon, and creamy buttermilk dill dressing
- Baby Summer Greens Salad
- Baby summer greens with dried cherries, pistachios, balsamic vinaigrette
- Caesar Salad
- Crisp romaine hearts, croutons, shaved parmigiano reggiano cheese, caesar dressing
Brick Oven Pizzas
Our 10-inch individual flatbread pizzas are baked in our wood-burning brick oven.
- Margherita Pizza
- Vine-ripened tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil, and fresh basil
- Carolina
- Pulled bbq chicken, smoked bacon, pomodoro sauce, fresh basil, mozzarella cheese
- Mushroom And Asparagus Pizza
- Roasted portabella mushrooms, asparagus tips, crumbled feta cheese
- Italian
- Soppresatta, pepperoni, italian sausage, fresh pomodoro sauce, and mozzarella
Tomato Harvest Dinner Menu
Appetizers
- Goat Cheese and Tomato Tart
- Local heirloom tomatoes, fresh goat cheese, pine nuts and opal basil butter
- Wood Fired Flatbread
- From our wood burning oven, topped with oven roasted tomatoes, fresh mozzarella cheese, sweet garlic, estate-raised pea shoots, truffle oil
- Crab and Brie "Fondue"
- Jumbo lump crab and melted brie, toasted pita, tarragon crème frâiche
- Fresh Mozzarella and Tomatoes
- With a basil and red pepper relish
- Selection of Imported & Artisan Cheeses
- Saint Nectair, Pecorino Toscano, Split Creek Farms Goat Cheese, Pleasant Ridge Reserve, and Stilton, served with nuts, dried fruits, grilled bread
Soups & Salads
- Yellow Tomato Gazpacho
- With dill crème frâiche
- Crab and Tomato Bisque
- Creamy tomato bisque finished with fresh basil and lump crab meat
- Baked French Onion Soup Gratinée
- Rich onion soup topped with melted Gruyère, provolone cheese
- Bistro Signature Salad
- Chilled Bibb lettuce, cucumbers, Gorgonzola, smoked bacon, buttermilk dill dressing
- Caesar Salad
- Romaine hearts, crispy croutons, shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano, Caesar dressing
- Baby Summer Greens Salad
- Baby summer greens with dried cherries, pistachios, and balsamic vinaigrette
Entrées
- Pan-Seared Mountain Trout
- Summer asparagus, corn, and roasted tomato ragout, garlic whipped potatoes, meunière butter
- Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes
- Orzo pasta, roasted tomatoes, portabella mushrooms, and smoked gouda béchamel
- Seared Alaskan Halibut
- Pan-seared fillet, poached fingerling potatoes, sautéed spinach and grape tomatoes, fennel citrus vinaigrette
- Atlantic Salmon & Grilled Diver Scallop
- House-made tomato tagliatelle pasta, kalamata olives, preserved lemon and artichokes
- Pan Seared Duck Breast
- Biltmore honey and cider glazed fingerling potatoes, sautéed arugula, mushrooms and grape tomatoes, blackberry reduction
- Wood Roasted Chicken
- Roasted half chicken, buttermilk whipped potatoes, green beans, mushroom gravy
- Farmer's Summer Vegetables
- Chef's selection of locally harvested, roasted and sautéed summer vegetables, served with a "\risotto" of Mediterranean farro grains
- Grilled Lamb Porterhouse Chops
- Two five-ounce grilled porterhouse chops with yellow tomato concasse, grilled asparagus, and roasted fennel and walnut jus
- Berkshire Pork Chop
- Locally-raised Berkshire pork from Hickory Nut Gap Farm, cheddar grit cake, braised kale, apple tomato chutney
- Center-Cut Beef Tenderloin
- Pancetta and green pea risotto, haricot vert, lobster sherry cream sauce