New appetizers, roast beef sandwich and strawberry ice cream join Reliable Source menu

The new year is bringing new items to the menu at the Club's Reliable Source Restaurant.

As appetizers, crispy chicken strips coated in breadcrumbs and cheese replace chicken wings, and a platter of pastry-wrapped hot dogs, macaroni and cheese balls, meatballs and mozzarella sticks . has been added. Ranch or blue cheese dressing are offered for dipping.  Both appetizers are priced at $12. 

A new winter green salad of peppery arugula, radishes, fennel, oranges and pecans is salad is $6 as a side dish and $15 as an entrée.

New sandwiches -- roast beef with cheese and horseradish, and tuna salad or a warm tuna melt -- have been added. The tuna salad also can be served on a salad.

For vegetarians, the Reliable Source is offering a butternut squash lasagna with roasted squash, ricotta, spinach, hazelnuts and cranberries, all topped with a bechamel white sauce;  Copies of this recipe are available from the kitchen 

For a limited time, butter pecan and strawberry ice creams will join vanilla and chocolate.  A weekly changing house-made dessert features apple crisp, caramel bread pudding or crème brûlée.

Specials include turmeric bone-in chicken breast on angel hair pasta, spinach-stuffed trout with capers and brown butter, and spicy pulled pork barbecue with kimchi and melted American cheese.

The Reliable Source is open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.  Dinner service is available Thursday from 5-8 p.m. and Fridays from 5:30-7:30 p.m. alongside the taco bar.