Ten years ago people wanted those baby pheasants that don't taste like anything.

In addition to the traditional roasted free-range turkey, other entrees include a truffle encrusted wild bass, a Wellington of venison and roasted baby pheasant.

Tupelo Honey's menu lists a pumpkin ravioli starter, a spit-roast baby pheasant main course and a bananas Foster chocolate shortcake dessert.

Quail, an evening special, and baby pheasant are given the same delicious treatment.

The five-course $49.95 meal will feature Contratto and Brugo wines, a strolling musician and a baked baby pheasant with polenta entree.

Meat dishes include grilled baby pheasant, fennel-crusted rack of lamb, pan-seared pork medallions and several cuts of steak.

The main-dish options include trout with a hollandaise sauce, veal with mushrooms in a brown sauce with cream, local baby pheasant and rack of lamb.

The meal, $45 at the first seating and $75 at the second, includes baby ring-necked pheasant and fricassee of wild mushrooms with herb-scented risotto.

Roasted baby pheasant with orzo and olives was flawlessly prepared, but some of this farm-raised game is so characterless, you might as well order chicken for a lot less money.

Also beautifully prepared, succulent baby pheasant went perfectly with seared flattened potatoes and mushroom sauce chunky with shiitake caps.