Down the street from the Ivoryton Playhouse
and its Kris Connors boy reading/elephant sculpture,
The Blue Hound Cookery
has opened in the space that once housed popular Aggie’s, as shown in this watercolor hanging inside the restaurant.
This is how the interior now appears.
The love of hounds is a recurrent theme.
Blue Hound was BYOB at the time of our visit, but won’t likely be for long. We toted with us both a white wine
and a red.
The wait staff brought out delicious cornbread.
We plotted our meal from Blue Hound’s exciting menu.
We began with great fried green tomatoes,
flame-grilled shrimp over red beans,
seafood sweet potato chowder,
Creole beef carpaccio
and Louisiana-style lump crab cakes with corn pimento cream.
Main dishes proved wonderful as well. Check out the oyster po’ boy platter, for instance.
We had a choice of hot sauces to liven it up even further.
Savannah salmon was a major treat,
as was the authentic jambalaya
and the Charleston-style sirloin.
Desserts? How could we go wrong with a delightful crème brûlée,
bananas Foster with blueberries,
and flourless almond chocolate cake?
The owners, Farmington natives who owned a popular restaurant in the South, couldn’t be nicer,
nor the Southern chef more successful in plumbing the culinary depths of the South.
We hope to return soon for a hair of the Blue Hound that bit us.
The Blue Hound Cookery, 107 Main Street, Ivoryton, 860-767-0260, www.bluehoundcookery.com