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Sky Bar & Grill 239 Danbury Road Wilton, 203-761-7700 Continuous serving lunch and dinner 11:30 to 10 Monday to Thursday; 11:30 to 10:30 Friday and Saturday; 1 to 10 Sunday; bar service daily to 11. Reservations required weekends; handicapped accessible, major credit cards; child friendly; full bar, continental menu, vegetarian selections; dietary restrictions honored; take out; off premises catering; casual dress; wine dinners; private functions up to 75; parking adjacent to restaurant. Soup: $3.50 to $5 Appetizers: $7 to $10 Salads: $7 to $9 Sandwiches: $8 to $12 Entrees: $10 to $26 Children’s menu: $5 Wine by the glass: $6 to $10 By the bottle: $20 to $120 Dessert $4 to $7 After dinner drinks: $8 to $18 Sky Bar & Grill co-owners Tony Ramadani and Chef Tipi Mazari are celebrating a third anniversary in business offering a comfortable atmosphere and good food at affordable prices. Although Route 7 is undergoing major construction at the time, it is worth the effort to follow the “Open for Business” sign to the official entrance in the rear of the building. No stranger to the restaurant business, Tony Ramadani, who designs his own restaurants, is also the owner of Portofino in Wilton, Spasi and Barca both in Danbury. Sous chef at Sky Bar & Grill is Eloy Huerta and manager is Rick Racaj. We stopped by for lunch and enjoyed grazing the menu, starting with wild mushroom fricassee served over puff pastry and crab cake served over chayote squash, apple slaw and poblano crème fraîche. It was a very tasty start. We shared a delicious ruby salad composed of red beets, baby arugula, red onion, cherry tomatoes, and fried goat cheese cake tossed in a sherry vinaigrette. Our entrees, traditional fish & chips made with tilapia and served with tartar sauce and french fries and grilled skirt steak with herb polenta, sautéed spinach and salsa verde, also received extra points. Other signature appetizers are grilled dry sea scallops with celery root and pear puree, blood orange sauce; fried taquito filled with confit of duck breast, with couscous, lemon parsley, vegetable slaw and plum-ginger dipping sauce; and beef tenderloin satay served with soba noodles, stir fry vegetables and ginger Hoisin sauce Popular salads are endive with celery root, apples, and candied walnuts tossed in a blue cheese dressing; and baby mixed greens tossed with julienne celery root, fresh mango, grapes and mango vinaigrette. In addition to hamburgers — try the Sky burger — luncheon sandwiches are blackened chicken breast, crab cake served on a kaiser roll, and corned beef. Entrees are Veal Milanese served over lemon risotto and Swiss chard in a white wine-butter sauce; grilled New York sirloin steak served with mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus in a bordelaise sauce; seafood ravioli filled with lobster, shrimp and scallops served with grape tomatoes, roasted corn and spinach in a saffron lobster sauce; grilled yellowfin tuna over fingerling potatoes, haricots verts and wax bean salad tossed in a mustard vinaigrette with wasabi aioli; and chicken breast stuffed with spinach, sun-dried tomato and fresh mozzarella served over polenta cake with a poblano pepper cream sauce. Made-in-house, key lime pie is a favorite dessert; also consider the coconut crème brûlée and chocolate mousse cake. Full service is also available in the spacious bar where regulars enjoy gathering. Side dishes Pizzeria Lauretano in Bethel has been cited by Zagat as the 43rd best Italian restaurant in Connecticut, and best among 1,000 Italian restaurants in the United States...Jazz on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings is featured at Barca Restaurant & Wine Bar, 93 Mill Plain Road, Danbury, 203-791-2929...The Bob Riccio Trio will perform for dinner and dancing from 6:30 to 10:30 on May 2 at Le Chateau Restaurant in South Salem, NY. Reservations, 914-533-6763, for Mother’s Day dinner, May 11, from 12 to 6:30 are also being accepted. © Copyright 2008 by Hersam Acorn Newspapers |
