Rensselaerville Eats: Palmer House Café

Imagine living in a small town: a church, library, post office, and a restaurant… You want to go out to eat? It’s the only game in town; good thing for Rensselaerville Palmer House Café is a casual yet elegant, severely scrumptious establishment teeming with locally sourced options [1462 Main St. Rensselaerville]. Walking in through the front door of the dining room you are greeted by a mural of birds who might give up a few feathers to peck at your grub,

reminiscent of the hike we just took at Hyuck Preserve right up the block. There is also a back room with a tavern style atmosphere. Soon the waitress comes over with a carafe of water, a basket of fluffy bread, and the specials for tonight.

She offers to bring a sample of a local coffee like beer that you may either ‘love or hate’ – and we loved it. As an appetizer we ordered the chickpea and kale fritters topped with a tangy aioli and paired with the most fresh and juicy fruit chutney you could ever ask for.

Our waitress left for just a few moments before checking back on us and our plate was clean as can be. For my meal I ordered a butternut squash and parsnip bisque which was so out of this world I wish my apartment had a fountain of it.

I also gobbled up a divine special of the night, a kale, tomato, caramelized onion, and gruyere tart.

Jeff had the meatloaf which came out colorfully presented, and I snagged some of his mashed po-ta-ters.

Yum. For dessert, the last blueberry and peach cobbler had our name on it and this was truly the icing on the cake.

Chunks of fresh blueberry and peach, off the charts phenomenal!