Specialties include salmon terrine, thickly cut beef with cider sauce, and homemade pastries.

Pot-roasting pheasant makes it deliciously moist and the creamy cider sauce is the perfect accompaniment.

Breast of duck is good, too, surrounded by glazed apples in a cider sauce.

But the sauteed shrimp with butter-rich acorn squash puree and cider sauce was a felicitous marriage.

Chicken ($13.50) was nicely sauteed, with savory potato pancakes and a sweet cider sauce, a nice turn on applesauce.

The dessert was an apple sherbet terrine with Applejack mousse and hot cider sauce.

Trout is served with cider sauce and a sorrel mousse.

A recent special of pork loin in cider sauce set onto a circle of butternut squash was a perfect fall entree.

Sea scallops with coriander and cider sauce is another excellent example.

Pumpkin spice cake with cider sauce and apple sorbet was seasonally appropriate, if one must close with a sweet.