Past Events

Tuesday, October 31 Halloween Party for Kids
5 p.m. until it ends
We'll use our upstairs private dining room for an all-ages costume party with games, favors, magic tricks, food and prizes. Parents are welcome to join in the party, or have dinner in the downstairs dining room or at the bar while the kids play.
Cost: $5 per child
Reservations appreciated


Warm Lake Wine Dinner
November 7 and 8, 6:30 p.,m. each night
These two dinners are limited to 20 people each night around a single table. We will feature the wines of Warm Lake, a New York State winery on the Niagara Escarpment near Lake Ontario. The winemaking, done on a small scale, employs Old World techniques; the pinot noir fruit is triaged, punched down manually and vinified in French oak barrels. The grapes from four different sections of the vineyard are vinified separately, than blended by vintner Michael Von Heckler to make two dinner wines, Warm Lake Estate and Mountain Road. http://www.warmlakeestate.com

Our wine dinners will feature a tasting of each of the four component wines and the Estate wine. Then we'll sit down to a warming soup as a palate cleanser and enjoy the Mountain Road with coq au vin. We'll finish with Warm Lake's dessert pinot noir with cheeses and desserts. http://www.warmlakeestate.com
Cost: $80 per person, plus tax and gratuity

Thanksgiving Dinner
Thursday, November 23
Special prix fixe wine dinner
Limited to 20 people around a communal table, we will be serving up a five-course heritage breed turkey tasting menu with four spectacular wines. This is a particularly good option for people who love to dine well and in a festive setting, but won't be with their families on our national day of gratitude.
It starts at at 6:30 p.m.
Cost: $100 per person, plus tax and gratuity
Also, turkey dinner will be offered in our main dining room, in addition to our regular menu from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. It will include free-range, all-natural local roast turkey and trimmings and pie for dessert for $35 per person, or your guests may order from our regular menu. Turkey dinner for children under 12 is $15. A few large tables still available for family groups.
Call for reservations 518.583.3538

 

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“Tour de France” wine dinners January 21st and 22nd

These wine dinners will start in the Northeastern part of France. In Bergheim on the 110-mile long Alsatian route du vin. This picturesque village has cobbled streets, medieval timber-framed houses and Renaissance fountains. Marcel Deiss will provide our first wine, the extraordinary 1997 Bergheim Gewurztraminer, which should burst across our clean palates with a lean, sinewy texture, bright acidity and the minerally complexity of hot stones.

Chef Paul plans to put together a regionally inspired appetizer of a tender slice of slow-cooked pork with fresh persimmon and a vanilla bean sauce. The persimmon should bring out the tropical fruit and green tea flavors in the Gewurztraminer. If we’re lucky, we’ll be able to use pork from an Alsatian black pig raised by one of our local farmers.

We’ll get back in our chauffeured Citroën Pallas (for a photo of this dream car see http://www.schoenleber.com) and travel 200 miles to Mont Avril, a tiny 48-acre holding of Domaine Michel Goubard et Fils on a sloping hillside in southern Burgundy’s Côte Chalonnaise. We’ll stop for a delicate, light, tart, earthy, wild strawberry-flavored pinot noir made in 1999, paired with a simple dish of river fish, probably trout, in a red wine sauce.

We’ll get back in the car for a 150-mile ride to Tain l’Hermitage in the Northern Rhône. There we’ll stop at Jean-Luc Colombo’s winery for a glass of the viognier he calls “La Violette.”

Colombo is a pharmacist, turned wine consultant turned vigneron. This floral, smoky dry white wine will be paired with a delicate chicken forcemeat dish.

The next stop will be 200 miles later at Pierre Clavel’s estate in La Mejanelle, for a taste of “Les Garrigues.” We tasted the other two wines in Clavel’s Languedoc-Roussillon trilogy at our wine dinners in December. This deep, dark garnet syrah-grenache blend is muscular and spicy, with flavors of dark cherries and blackberries, ripe plum and wild game. It is spicy and chewy and should be a good match with lamb and black olives.

Our last stop will be 225 miles away in Saussignac, to the south of Bordeaux for Armelle & Jean-Marie Huré’s 1998 Chateau Tourmentine “Chemin Neuf”. This golden dessert wine is complex wine with a perfect balance of fruit and sugar. It should be a perfect match to a cake that Paul plans to make with one of our local farmstead cheeses.

Seating each
night is limited to 20 people around a single table. Tickets are $75 per
person, plus tax and tip. Substitutions can be made for people who don’t eat meat. The dinners start at 6:30 p.m. each night.

Chez Sophie’s next wine dinners will be February 18 and 19th.

Tables at our restaurant are already being booked for Valentine’s Weekend, Friday, February 13 and Saturday, February 14. Because Valentines Day falls on a Saturday, we expect to sell out quite early, so we wanted to remind our regular diners so they can get a table before the newbies snatch them all up. Paul is planning an extensive prix fixe menu for the night ($60 per person including appetizer, soup or salad, entrée, and dessert or cheese) with many romantic choices within the courses to suit those who prefer vegetables, fish, meat, poultry or game.

 
 
CHEZ SOPHIE AT THE SARATOGA   534 BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866   518.583.3538  allofus@chezsophie.com