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62 Restaurant & Wine Bar Features Special Menu for New Year’s Eve

WHAT:             Ring in the New Year with 62 Restaurant & Wine Bar, the highly rated and award-winning restaurant located just north of Boston in Salem, Massachusetts. Chef/Owner Antonio Bettencourt is preparing a special four-course prix fixe menu for $70.00 per person featuring his modern take on regional Italian dishes. Dine into dishes such as, just-warmed burrata over grilled ciabatta with pickled golden raisins & pine nuts or confit pork belly over polenta with bosc pear mostarda to start your meal. Choose from Chef Bettencourt’s award-winning hand crafted pastas including, hand rolled garganelli with red wine braised duck, dried cherries, pine nuts, Tuscan kale and Swiss chard or ricotta ravioli with braised artichokes, basil & preserved lemon vinaigrette. Enter “Secondi” with dishes such as his Zuppa di Pesce with Lobster, mussels, scallops and halibut in a spicy tomato and saffron brodetto ora Duo of Veal featuring slow roasted veal sirloin and braised short rib, hen of the woods mushrooms & roasted cipolla. Finally top the evening off with your choice between 62’s amazing desserts like the Torta al Caprino with mascarpone and goat’s cheese tort with red wine spiced dried plums or their customer-favorite, the Warm Toffee Pudding.

Diners’ can also elect to dine à la carte and order from 62 Restaurant & Wine Bar’s regular dinner menu.

For an additional $20 per person guests can enjoy carefully paired wines from “62’s” handpicked, all-Italian wine list. 62 Restaurant & Wine Bar is the perfect setting for this special evening to celebrate with family, friends and make new ones!

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WHERE:           62 Restaurant & Wine Bar | 62 Wharf Street, Salem, MA | 978-744-0062| www.62restaurant.com.

WHEN:             Saturday, December 31st, 2011 from 5:00PM to 11:30PM (Last Seating at 11:30PM)

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COST:              $70 per person, $90 with optional wine pairing. Reservations are necessary. Please call 978-744-0062 

New Year’s Eve 2012
$70 per person
$90 with wine pairings

Antipasti
Burrata
Just-warmed burrata over grilled ciabatta with pickled golden raisins & pinenuts

Pork Belly
Confit pork belly over polenta with bosc pear mostarda

Primi
Garganelli
Hand rolled garganelli with red wine braised duck, dried cherries, pinenuts & Tuscan kale

Ravioli
Swiss chard and ricotta ravioli, braised artichokes, basil & preserved lemon vinaigrette

Secondi
Zuppa di Pesce
Lobster, mussels, scallops and halibut in a spicy tomato and saffron brodetto

Duo of Veal
Slow roasted veal sirloin and braised short rib, hen of the woods mushrooms & roasted cipolla

Dolce
Torta al Caprino
Mascarpone and goat’s cheese tort with red wine spiced dried plums

Warm Toffee Pudding
With toffee sauce and whipped cream

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