Fresh Fish Your New Year!

Fish is a very logical choice for the New Year's table. According to Mark Kurlansky, author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, cod has been a popular feast food since the Middle Ages. 

 The Danish eat boiled cod, while in Italy, baccalà, or dried salt cod, is enjoyed from Christmas through New Year's. Germans also enjoy carp and have been known to place a few fish scales in their wallets for good luck. The Swedish New Year feast is usually a smorgasbord with a variety of fish dishes such as seafood salad.

At the Bisbee Grille, we also serve the proverbial cod, fresh from the Atlantic, beer battered and complimented with a side of "chips". But we also serve it as a sandwich, with your choice of sides. It does not stop there, our menu also includes Salmon Pesto, where we take fresh salmon and grill it with our in house tomato and basil pesto for an unbelievable sauce. 

Of course, a starters plate of calamari could encourage you to further the adventure toward greater endeavors, such as shrimp scampi or Mahi Mahi.

So do things different this New Years, confuse your libido before you imbibe, with your choice of lucky fish dishes from The Bisbee Grille.

Closed Christmas Day

Electric Mushrooms

 

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics reveal that mushrooms were thought to bring immortality and that only the pharaohs, who were thought of as godlike, could receive this privilege. Commoners, therefore, were not even allowed to touch mushrooms. 

Mushrooms were known to be such a powerful aphrodisiac that they became infused into important rituals and ceremonies. The Normans, during the 11th century C.E., traditionally prepared a wedding dish that contained a pound of mushrooms to be fed to the groom only.
 When preparing our mushroom concoction, The Bisbee Grille saute's its mushroom in a mixture that includes Dave's Electric Beer. Dave's story begins in Bisbee about 22 years ago. Arizona had just legalized microbreweries and “Electric” Dave applied for the state’s first brewer’s license. He worked hard to perfect his beer recipes and earned many admirers along the way. We use his blend to "electrify" our mushrooms, which makes for a great appetizer before your main course. 

West Texas Millionaire Burger Summit

 

 Some of the greatest ideas are casually discussed over lunch and a beer. At the Bisbee Coffee Company Roaster department, Dan Simonis and entourage met with Rob Page to discuss an idea for the Bisbee Grille Menu. Rob is not quick to just jump into any idea, and is mentally disecting the idea as it is being presented by some hopeful.

As Dan presented his vision of what a Texas Millionaire enjoys in a hamburger, the pieces began to slowly come together for Rob to begin working on Dan's idea with the assistance of his culinary database found on his most private computer.

 After an hour of high speed analysis, Rob printed out the data and went over it with Dan and his wife, Puspa. After going over the logistics, along with back and forth suggestions, it was now time to take it to the kitchen for a series of tests.

A panel of 7, which included Dan and Rob, began to take part in sampling several versions of this experimental burger. It began to be honed down to 3 versions. This will further be scrutinized several more days before becoming, "The West Texas Millionaire Burger Platter".  Stay tuned for the smash premier party!

Soup of the Day

 

Global Warming? I don't know about you, but when you live on the border of Mexico, and it is colder than North Dakota, I will beg to differ with that theory. That is why The Bisbee Grille offers snow birds a delightful soup of the day, every day. When I sat down and ordered this wonderful dish, I was met with a clam chowder served in a baked bread bowl. Wonderfully seasoned, and richly thick in it's body, this soup was just what the weatherman ordered on this brisk, cool day.

I eventually removed my scarf and warmed up to this incredible soup. With each spoonfull, I worked away at the bakers bowl, keeping me busy at what I should eat next...soup, or bowl. The Bisbee Grille is in the high season,  keeping you coming back for another great meal. So come take a lunch/dinner break as you tour the shops and art galleries to relax and refuel your appetite, with our Soup of the Day!