Friday, January 10, 2014

Shady Maple Smorgasbord Off-Season Special Theme Dinner Weekends - East Earle, PA

If you are a regular reader of this site you know about Shady Maple - our top buffet pick for a number of years now. You may not know that when the winter comes, Shady Maple features special theme weekend dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. Those dinners started tonight but this weekend's special continues tomorrow. I am going to list those theme weekend specials and their dates here for your reference. These dinners include the special featured items along with the regular smorgasbord.

Asian Weekend

Friday, January 10th 4PM-8PM and Saturday, January 11th 11AM-8PM

Walnut chicken, pepper steak, Korean BBQ wings, BBQ ribs, spring rolls and egg rolls with a variety of sauces. At the grilles: fried rice, lo mein, chicken or shrimp with your choice of variety of vegetables, curry, teriyaki or sweet and spicy Korean sauce. Plus gourmet apple bread, hot pepper jack cheese and orange creamsicle dessert.

Shrimp and Grilled Fish Weekend

Friday, January 24th 4PM-8PM and Saturday, January 25th 11AM-8PM

Featuring steamed shrimp (hot and cold u-peel and eat), fried shrimp, shrimp noodles, Maryland crab soup, crab augratin, oyster stew, grilled salmon, grilled cajun catfish, orange roughy, crab dip, hot crab dip and hand dipped seafood croquets. Plus gourmet strawberry bread, sharp cheddar cheese and lemon meringue pie.

Western Weekend

Friday, January 31st 4PM-8PM and Saturday, February 1st 11AM-8PM

Featuring New York strip steaks, chopped steaks, salisbury steak, hamburgers and hot dogs, BBQ baked beans, chili, cowboy caviar and peanuts. Plus Shady Maple's very own western burger and also featuring gourmet peach bread, longhorn cheese and fruited bread pudding.

Prime Rib Weekend

Friday, February 7th 4PM-8PM and Saturday, February 8th 11AM-8PM

The grill stations will be featuring famous juicy prime rib as well as their own Smorgie cheese steaks! Plus also featuring gourmet spinach and cheese bread, muenster cheese and pecan pie.

Hawaiian Luau Weekend

Friday, February 21st 4PM-8PM and Saturday February 22nd 11AM-8PM

Whole roasted pig, pulled pork, ham balls with pineapple sauce, pineapple chicken, coconut mahi, carved steamship pork with sweet and tangy BBQ sauce, pineapple bread pudding, Hawaiian fruit salad, chocolate fountain, smoothies, fresh pineapple, coconut macaroons, and plus pineapple bread and a variety of Hawaiian salads and desserts.

Farmers Weekend

Friday, February 28th 4PM-8PM and Saturday, March 1st 11AM-8PM

Chicken pot pie, duck legs, fresh pork sausage, ham balls, lima beans. On the grill they will have chicken livers with or without onions. The soup and salad bar is featuring chunky chicken salad, and cream of potato soup and cabbage soup. Plus Amish butter cheese, gourmet apple bread and apple and shoofly pie.

Prime Rib Weekend

Friday, March 7th 4PM-8PM and Saturday, March 8th 11AM-8PM

The grills will be featuring prime rib and their famouse Smorgie cheese steaks. Plus they will be featuring gourmet peach bread, muenster cheese and peach crumb pie.

Several of these have my attention. I would love to try their whole roasted pig! Then again, the next weekend's Farmers Weekend looks good too! They all look good!  Each one is definitely recommended.  I only wish I was not over four hours and a good amount of tolls and miles away.

Past these dates the season starts to begin again and while there will still be specials, the menus will revert to the usual and great Shady Maple Smorgasbord.

Shady Maple Smorgasbord is located at 129 Toddy Drive in East Earl, PA. Take Route 23 East or Route 322 South to get to the restaurant. The phone numbers are 1-800-238-7363 and 717-354-8222. There is a website and it is listed at the side of this page.








2 comments:

Art said...

Hey, cool article. Yeah, I'd love that whole roasted pig too!

Question: Do you ever go to breakfast buffets? I remember going to Shoney's long ago.. they're in PA but not around here in NJ.

There is a Golden Corral being built in Freehold, near me, and they said they're going to have a breakfast buffet on the weekends. Have you ever had breakfast at a Golden Corral? Perhaps you could do an entry on breakfast buffets.

Writer said...

We have not been to a breakfast buffet in many, many years. We don't generally eat breakfast and a buffet breakfast for us would be more food than we want that early in the day. We used to go to a breakfast buffet that started at Midnight at a truck stop in PA that served a breakfast buffet - light dinner and then off to the buffet when it opened at midnight. Many, many years ago we would go to the breakfast buffet at Miller's Smorgasbord in PA but that has changed a lot since back then. Old Country Buffet has a breakfast buffet on the weekend. Most breakfast buffets are high fat/high carb meals - appealing to have all the bacon that you can eat but not the most healthy thing to do. When we could eat these things - way back when - it was fun.