To us at the Lone Cedar, food is an event! Lone Cedar Café Outer Banks specials now in season:
North Carolina oysters are here! We’re catching and serving fresh flounder, tuna, rock fish and tile fish. Our “just-picked” vegetables include sweet potatoes, rutabagas, turnips and fresh beets from Burch Farms in Faison, North Carolina. Come on in and enjoy the freshest seafood and vegetables on the Outer Banks.
Opening February 9, 2012
Serving Dinner Every Night at 4:30 PM Through February 19
Including Sunday Brunch--11:00 AM 'til 3:00 PM
Valentine's Day Specials
February 14
Ricky and Lucy, our resident ospreys, have left for the winter, but we will be awaiting their return in March.
All of us at Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe wish you a prosperous new year.
We thank you for your patronage throughout this year and look forward to serving you in 2012.
Outdoor Dining Overlooking Roanoke Sound.
We look forward to seeing you!
WINNERS!
Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe
representing North Carolina
Places Second in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off
- The Country's Most Prestigious Seafood Competition-
Lone Cedar's Executive Chef, Bud Gruninger, was selected by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture to represent North Carolina in the 2011 Great Amercian Seafood Cook-Off in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 6! The domestic seafood competition is an event in which competitors prepare and present dishes to be judged primarily on taste, execution of skills and presentation. The guidelines require chefs to prepare, cook and plate their dishes within one hour--start to finish. No pre-chopping, sauces made ahead, or prep work allowed. This year's competition had chefs from over 14 states across the United States.
Basnight's top kitchen staff, Executive Chef Gruninger, Susan Peele, Sous Chef and Nathan Robinson, Saute Chef, developed menus and recipes to meet the stringent requirements of the competition. They incorporated foods from across North Carolina to showcase the entire state while maintaining the fresh, local foods which define the Lone Cedar Cafe. The Lone Cedar chefs plated creamed potatoes topped with freshly-caught redfish, jumbo lump crabmeat and smoked heirloom tomato butter with sides of sweet corn and onion puree, fresh microgreens and a pastry cup filled with sweet corn, okra, onion, yellow squash, zuchinni and cherry tomatoes for the competition. All these fresh ingredients were packed in Chef Gruninger's car--he didn't want to risk airline delays--and he and Chef Robinson headed to New Orleans. Chef Peele stayed in Nags Head to keep the Lone Cedar Cafe running smoothly.
Congratulations to Bud and Nate!
Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe, representing North Carolina, took SECOND PLACE in the highly acclaimed Great American Seafood Cook-Off!
Congratulations to Alabama, the first place winner.
The Food Network will televise the Great American Seafood Cook-Off . As soon as we know air times we will post them on our website.
Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe has been awarded the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence! for 2011!
Vicki, Lone Cedar's wine expert, has assembled a spectacular wine cellar to enhance our fresh seafood and all-natural beef.
Congratulations, Vicki!
Vicki is a 2011 graduate of Surry Community College with a degree in viticulture and enology.
She is a certified vintner--truly an expert in wines
Basnight's Lone Cedar Cafe is a proud member of Outer Banks Catch.
*serving only fresh local seafood caught by local fishermen*
NOW AVAILABLE in the Lone Cedar Café Gift Shop:
Items perfect for your beach cottage. T-shirts for kids and adults! |
