PinPoint Restaurant hosts a special five-course dinner featuring Foggy Ridge Cider on Thursday, December 15 at 6:30 p.m. The dinner will feature a variety of wintertime dishes including:

Hors D’oeuvres

Masonboro Oysters with apple mignonette, anise hyssop, and sumac

Apple, cheddar, and smoked honey on mini toasts

Smoked NC Catfish on corn blini with NC sturgeon caviar radish, and crème fraiche

Cider Cocktail: Speckled Winesap ginger-anise hyssop shrub w/ “Serious Cider”

 First Course

Spicy Peanut Soup with harissa, fennel, and whipped coconut cream

Stayman Winesap

 Second Course

NC Yellowfin Tuna Tartare with celery root, Meyer lemon, chervil-caraway aioli, herbs, and benne lavash

Handmade

 Third Course

Apple-smoked and spiced lamb neck crepinette with sweet potato latke, cider braised cabbage, chestnut puree, and poached golden raisin mostarda

First Fruit

 Dessert

Caramel Apple

Pippin Gold

 Tickets are $75 per person. Reservations are required by calling 910-769-2972. All the ciders will be available for purchase at the dinner. To learn more visit www.pinpointrestaurant.com/#about

Foggy Ridge Cider began in 1997 with a cider apple orchard in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains. Founder Diane Flynt “grows ingredients”—bitter acidic apples like Hewe’s Crab, Harrison, Tremlett’s Bitter, Ashmead’s Kernel and Dabinett, all full of complex flavor. The Foggy Ridge crew crafts traditional cider apples into fine cider using all the skill and expertise of modern fermentation. To learn more, visit foggyridgecider.com.