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Trying to adjudge amid affected and accidental dining can generally be an ordeal. “Elegant” can sometimes accomplish a meal out feel added like a chore, while “casual” shoots for abundant aliment after all of the fuss, but can get ambiance appropriate and the bowl all wrong. With a blow of intuition and class, restaurateurs Carl Billera and Peter and Nicole Adams accept managed to abstain those pitfalls and altogether hit the mark — alert — with a alloy of affluence and abundance at The Abode and Barn.
["635.35"]Located forth Chestnut Street in Emmaus, the two abstracted restaurants administer to brace admirable aliment with glassy autogenous architecture (The House), and small-plate abundance aliment in a aesthetic and rustic ambience that’s absolute for casting aback beer and alert to alive music (The Barn). But accomplish no mistake: While affection and break may draw diners to one ancillary of the acreage or the other, both are to be accomplished and enjoyed, absolutely because the offerings at anniversary jump off the bowl with both adventurous acidity and color.
While the spaces are memorable and draw you in to relax for hours with friends, it is the assignment of Executive Chef Greg Fiedler that absolutely makes The Abode and Barn a gem. The “big” dishes at The Abode are breadth Fiedler hits his stride, as apparent in one access that presents Seared Duck Breast with red curry, udon noodle, bounce onion mirpoix and absurd shiitake, or Beef Tenderloin filet with augment ragout, scalloped potato, and bordelaise. The dishes are both visually beauteous and additionally blast the absolute accord amid accomplished dining and abundance food, while the flavors are accustomed to breathe after coercion from apish beautification on the plate. At The House, both acreage and seafood lovers will get a abundant blast for their buck, and those who adopt tapas-style dining accept added than a dozen baby plates to aces from.
“Our airheaded change seasonally, and the Chef’s specials are offered and afflicted intermittently. There’s no set rotation. If we accept a melancholia account that we appetite to affection or if the kitchen is activity abnormally creative, they assignment their abracadabra and actualize article unique,” says accepted administrator Melissa Roach. “Sometimes it’s actually hours afore account and they appear up with an absurd bowl off the cuff. The artistic action in the kitchen is absolutely absurd to watch — the possibilities with aliment are endless.”
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That’s not to say that athirst assemblage who canyon through The Barn’s doors are activity to absence out on flavor. Though the card is absolutely added laid aback — you can barbecue on a majority of
the offerings after defective accoutrement — flavors of the south additionally allure with the Smoked Pig sandwich featuring barbeque pork shoulder, barn sauce, pickles and slaw served on a brioche bun. The barbeque walks the accomplished band amid candied and smoky, which agency it additionally makes an accomplished topping for the Barn B Q Nachos. And if a “stick to your ribs” archetypal is what you’re craving, the Backtalk Mac & Cheese fabricated with three-cheese booze and cool agglomeration backtalk meat with adulate atom topping is activity to hit the spot.
“The kitchen brand presented some challenges in aloof how far we could aggrandize the menu, so we autonomous for “Barn Bistro.” We capital a aesthetic booty on abundance food,” says Roach. “The card was absitively based partially on the breadth and additionally our chef’s affection and aptitude back it comes to barbeque.”
["388"]These advancing restaurants would not be complete after an all-encompassing account of libations with which to ablution bottomward your aliment pairings. The Barn appearance 10 abstract curve and The Abode appearance six, and The House’s wine selections are both characteristic and impressive. It is the revamped bar in The House’s basal level, about — forth with an absorbed alehouse lounge aloof alfresco of the capital bar breadth — that combines the agreeableness of an old speakeasy with avant-garde comfort. Artistic affair are at home here, and favorites accommodate the Lavender Bramble, which readers can apprentice to accomplish from the compound in this spread. Beer and cocktail airheaded change alert a year, and this abatement will be the aboriginal time The Barn is alms a abounding Moscow Mule menu.
Earlier this year, The Abode and Barn broadcast on its already-successful blueprint and began alms Sunday brunch, giving assemblage a accomplished new way to acquaintance dining at the property. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., salads, steak and eggs are side-by-side on a card that offers the candied with the savory, including the chef’s booty on Chicken and Waffles, Backtalk Benedict and Huevos Rancheros. For an Instagram-worthy drink, try the house-made Bloody Mary, which is fabricated with with abode Bloody Mary mix, lemon, lime, carrots, cucumbers, blimp olives and presented with an ability on top.
“Brunch has been a success out of the gate. We knew there was a charge in this breadth for article altered and fun for Sunday brunch,” says Roach. “One of our best accepted appearance is a make-your-own mimosa bar — abounding with beginning juices and an arrangement of bake-apple — and guests accept created some altered concoctions. A brunch staple, our adorable scones house-made by our pastry chef Jessica, accept been such a hit that we’ve had requests for aggregate to-go orders. The card will be adapted seasonally like our others.”
["465.6"]The Abode and Barn is a abundance cuisine affectionate of establishment, with all of the stuffiness bare away, and with stylish, active interiors that accomplish it a absolutely adequate destination. With Lieberts Creek and complaining willows as the accomplishments to these celebrated buildings, guests accept the altered advantage of two actual altered adventures and commons in one location.
“The atmosphere is actual homey. We appetite to let guests apperceive that we see and apprehend them, and we appetite to accomplish accompany with them,” says Fiedler. “We aloof absolutely appetite bodies to feel at home here.”
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