SOUPS

French Onion Soup
Classic soup with caramelized onions and crostinis, baked in provolone and cheese gratinee.      
    $5.25

Shrimp & Crab Chowder
Shrimp, crab and vegetables in a creamy seafood broth.
    $5.75   
   
Soup Du Jour
Changes daily.   
$5.00


SALADS
Add chicken for $4.00 or shrimp for $6.00.

Garden Salad
Baby Greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, and carrots, with your choice of homemade dressing: ranch, blue cheese, Italian, balsamic, honey toasted cumin vinaigrette, or preserved lemon and poppy-seed.            
    Half $3.50      Full $5.50

Checkers Caesar
Romaine lettuce, croutons, and parmesan cheese, tossed with creamy Caesar dressing.   
    Half $4.00     Full $6.50   
   
Cobb Salad
Spring greens, chopped chicken, tomato, avocado, bacon, hard boiled egg, blue cheese crumbles, and scallions, tossed with homemade ranch dressing.                   
    $12.00

Arugula Salad
Virginia Red-Eye Ham, apple, pepato cheese, spiced pecans, and preserved lemon poppy-seed dressing.                        
    $11.00
       
Asian Pear Salad
Sake poached Asian pear, baby greens, toasted almonds, dried cranberries, and honey-toasted cumin vinaigrette.                        
    $11.00


SANDWICHES
Served with pomme frites, or garden salad and homemade pickles.

Ham and Egg
Sliced honey-baked ham, gruyere cheese, and dijonnaise, with artesian bread, topped with sunny-side up egg and mornay sauce.   
    $8.50   

           
Turkey Avocado Melt
Sliced turkey, muenster cheese, sliced avocado, pesto mayonnaise, and roasted red pepper on grilled sour-dough bread.                       
    $8.25

Tuna Nicoise Sandwich
Grilled tuna, hummus, tapenade, lettuce, tomato, and sliced egg, toasted baguette.
    9.95

Flat Iron Steak Sandwich
Grilled steak, Stilton cheese sauce, and grilled onions on French baguette bread.
    9.00

Jumbo Lump Crab Cake Sandwich
Jumbo lump cake, lettuce, tomato, and remoulade sauce on a kaiser roll.
    $11.75

The Chubby Checkers Burger
Grilled 10 oz Angus beef, served with pomme frites, or garden salad and homemade pickles, lettuce & tomato.
    $9.75
Add your choice of one or more of the following toppings for 50 cents each      
Gruyere               
Roasted Red Pepper
Brie               
Mushrooms           
Cheddar               
Avocado
Pepper Romano           
Caramelized Onions       
Stilton Sauce            
Bacon   
Muenster           
Jamaican Jerk Sauce


GRILLED OVEN BAKED PIZZAS

The Checkers Classic Pizza
Mozzarella, basil and tomato sauce.
    $9.50

Lobster Pizza
Fresh lobster, pine nuts, mozzarella, brie cheese, and baby arugula.
    $12.00

Prosciutto & Fig Pizza
Thin sliced Italian ham, dried figs, rosemary, house mozzarella, roasted garlic.
    $12.50

Beef Tenderloin Pizza
Grilled tenderloin tips, truffle cream, spinach and roasted peppers.
    $14.50


SMALL PLATES

Checkers Nachos
Chorizo sausage, cheddar, roasted corn and black bean salsa, scallions, guacamole, and sour cream.
    $6.95

Jumbo Chicken Wings
Choice of plain, hot, medium, bourbon bbq, Jamaican jerk, or garlic parmesan.     With celery and blue cheese.
    $7.00

Town Dock Calamari
Dredged and flash fried, tossed with lemon and herbs, accompanied by marinara.
    $8.75
Escargots A La Forestiere

Forest mushroom sauce, in puffed pastry shell.
    $9.95

Artichoke and Crab Dip
Baked with gruyere cheese gratinee, sliced baguette.
     $8.50

Tuna Carpaccio
Seared, sliced tuna, extra virgin olive oil, balsamic syrup, caper, red onion, and arugula.
    $11.00

Peking Duck Tacos
Chinese bbq duck, crisp wonton taco, guacamole, and microgreens.
    $10.75

Eggplant Rollatini
Baked fried eggplant, ricotta, parmesan, tomato sauce, basil, mozzarella
    $7.95

Seared Diver Scallops
Truffled creamed leeks, port wine reduction.
    $10.25   
       
Shrimp Pancetta
Italian bacon wrapped shrimp, Amaretto Butter, Tuscan white bean salad
    9.50

Seafood Bruschetta
Mussels, clams, scallops, shrimp, garlic, tomato, scallion, and white wine, over grilled baguette bread.
    $11.50  
         
Bourbon-Glazed St. Louis Ribs
One-half rack, slow cooked with our house bbq sauce.
    $10.50

Lobster & Crab Avocado Rolls
Fresh lobster and crab, avocado, cilantro, red bell pepper, and lime fried in eggroll, and served with baby greens, and chili garlic oli.               
    $10.50

House-Made Mozzarella Salad
Roasted peppers, sliced tomatoes, greens, balsamic syrup, extra virgin olive oil.
    $9.50     
      
Moroccan Spiced Lollipop Lamb Chops
Grilled and served with a mango Israeli couscous salad and pomegranate foam.     
    $14.00

PASTA

Chicken Orecchiette
Chicken, asparagus, and cherry tomatoes in a creamy garlic and Parmesan cheese sauce.
    $16.00

Beef Bolognese
Veal, beef, and pork in a hearty tomato sauce with basil, tossed with pappardelle pasta.
    $15.75

Clams and Linguine
Clams, wild mushrooms, garlic, and pancetta, in a white wine butter sauce, tossed with linguine pasta.
    $16.00

Curried Coconut Shrimp
Vegetables, rice vermicelli, peanuts, scallion, cilantro.
    $15.50   

BISTRO PLATES

Steak Frites
Grilled Flat Iron Steak, (10 oz), truffle mushroom and herb butter, frites.
    $18.50

Crab Cakes
Jumbo lump cakes, grilled and served with gratin potatoes, sautéed spinach, remoulade sauce, and lemon.
    $24.00

Tournedos
Seared filet medallions, merlot reduction, parisienne potatoes, vegetable fricassee.
    $29.00

Veal Tenderloin
Porcini seared with wild mushroom sauce, risotto Milanese, and sautéed spinach.
    26.00

Grilled Free Range Chicken Breast
Morel mushroom vinaigrette, creamy polenta, grilled asparagus.
    $21.50

Fish Dujour - Fresh changes daily, market price

BEVERAGES
Cold - Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Sierra Mist, Root Beer, Mountain Dew, unsweetened iced tea    $2.00
Hot – Caffeinated or decaffeinated French press coffee, Tazo tea (various flavors)        $2.20   
Bottled Water - Saratoga Natural Spring Water                    $3.00
Sparkling Water - Perrier, San Pellegrino                    $3.00       
Juice - Cranberry, orange, pineapple, grapefruit, tomato                     $2.75

DESERTS
Crème Brule
Creamy custard with brittle caramel crust, flavors change, ask
your server.
    $6.50

Apple Tartlet
Caramelized apples, flakey crust, and caramel sauce.
    $7.00

Tiramisu
Lady fingers, mascarpone zabaglione, shaved chocolate, and
whipped cream.
    $6.50

Profiteroles
Three small, round baked choux puffed pastries filled with your choice
of ice cream and topped with whipped cream and chocolate sauce.
    $6.50

Cheesecake
Sweetened cream cheese based confectionary, flavors change,
ask your server.
    $7.50

Chocolate Truffle Layer Cake
A dense, rich chocolate cake with layers of fudge and frosting,
topped with shards of dark chocolate truffle.
    $7.50

Ice Cream
Choice of vanilla, chocolate, huckleberry or spumoni flavor.
    One scoop $3.50
    Two scoops $5.50

Sorbet
Red-wine flavored gelato sorbet.
    One scoop $3.50
    Two scoops $5.50


COFFEE SPECIALTIES
All served with Starbucks French Press Coffee & priced $8.50
Baileys Irish Coffee – Baileys Irish Cream        
Chai Coffee – Voyant Chai Liquor
Chocolate Strawberry Coffee – Chambord & Crème de Cacao   
Italian Coffee – Amaretto
Irish Coffee – Jameson Irish Whiskey