New $49 Prix Fixe Dinner Menu At The Garden City Hotel's Polo Restaurant By Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn

The Polo Restaurant at The Garden City Hotel introduces a $49 three-course prix fixe dinner menu by award-winning Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn. The menu, available Tuesday - Friday beginning September 30 from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., will also feature $14 wine pairings and be revised weekly. Sample items are:

APPETIZERS
*Garden Vegetable Salad with a Savory Beet Sabl� Cookie & Vermont "Constant Bliss" Cheese
*Seared Scallops with Crushed Pistachio Nuts, Fennel, Blood Orange and Preserved Lemon Cream
*Coconut-Corn Chowder with Bay Scallops, Thai Basil & Shiitake Mushrooms

ENTREES
*Lightly Smoked & Seared Wild King Salmon
with Red Verjus & Horseradish Vinagrette, Savoy Cabbage, Maitake Mushrooms & Ramps
*Herb-Crusted Free-Roam Amish Chicken with Sauteed Spinach, Fettuccini Crepes and Braised Leg Meat Demi
*Pine Nut and Preserved Lemon-Crusted Lamb Chops
with Endive Marmalade, Root Vegetable Puree and Purple Mustard Sauce

DESSERTS
*Chocolate Tasting -
Dark Chocolate Cream, Milk Chocolate Sorbet, White Chocolate and Raspberry in Phyllo, Warm Chocolate Lava Cake
*Warm Apple Financier Almond Ice Cream with Apple Cider
*Coconut, Banana & Caramel Frozen Dome with Candied Almonds & Roasted Pineapple

The Garden City Hotel is no stranger to #1 ratings recognizing it as a leader on the Long Island dining scene. Top rankings from the Zagat Survey, from best food to best service, are given year-on-year to the Polo Restaurant - including #1 brunch on Long Island - and sister restaurant Rein Bar & Bistro. The New York Times' Joanne Starkey awarded The Polo Restaurant an "Excellent" rating for exceptional cuisine, service and ambience and declared it "the jewel in the crown of The Garden City Hotel." USA Today has also cited it as one of America's top 100 hotel restaurants and #1 in New York. The restaurants are under the direction of award-winning Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn who in 2007 was inducted into the Belgian society of master chefs. The luxury hotel is one of 120 members, internationally, of the Preferred Hotels and Resorts group having met the highest standards of quality and extraordinary service earning it Preferred Standard of Excellence status. The property has been a centerpiece of Garden City, attracting the great and good, since 1874. The hotel was originally designated as the focal point of Garden City - 7,000 acres of land 20 miles from New York City - by Alexander Turney Stewart to attract a famous and wealthy clientele from around the world. One of the most notable visitors, Charles Lindbergh, slept here in 1927 on the night before his trans-Atlantic flight. The hotel remains popular with today's high-flyers from the worlds of business, sport and entertainment.