Coastal Virginia Culinary Awards Winner 2024
From the Nov.-Dec. 2024 issue of Coastal Virginia Magazine:
Inspired seasonal dishes with regionally sourced ingredients served by the friendliest folks around is what Amber Ox is all about. They make it from scratch and in small batches for brunch, lunch and dinner. Imagine a board laden with four warm-from-the-oven homemade drop biscuits, a luscious compound butter, jammy preserves and honey ricotta to start your engine running. Add a pot of smoked pimento cheese, roasted hickory carrots and maybe a perfectly seared duck breast.
Bone-in Pork Chops with braised collards, Fried Ricotta Gnocchi with carrot top pesto and anything off the dessert menu is guaranteed to have you smiling wide as the Cheshire Cat. The mixologists behind the bar dream up the most usual handcrafted cocktails, mocktails and non-alcoholic concoctions to wet your whistle and your imaginations. Oh, plus a plethora of interesting shandys, sours, ciders and ales brewed to honor past styles while stepping boldly into future ones.
