YoCo Taste Trail Week: Our Menu | Maisie’s Green Brae

By Maisie’s Green Brae

For one week in August, York County eats out together. From August 19 through 26, more than twenty restaurants across the county — us among them — put out special menus at friendly prices for YoCo Taste Trail Week, the county’s restaurant week. It’s a week to wander the local food scene, try a room you’ve been meaning to visit, or come back to a favorite. We’re glad to have a seat on the trail.

How the Taste Trail Works

The idea is simple. Each participating restaurant puts out a special menu for the week, priced to make trying somewhere new easy. You don’t need a ticket to eat — just come by during the week and order the Taste Trail menu. But the part worth signing up for is the Taste Trail Week Pass.

Register for the pass through York County’s Taste Trail Week page and you’re entered for a chance to win a $250 gift card to the participating restaurant of your choice. The pass is also your map for the week — the full list of restaurants and their menus lives in one place, updated as each spot submits its own. Sign up, make your plan, and go.

Sign up for the Taste Trail Week Pass at visityorkcounty.com. If you’d rather ask a person, the York County Visitors Center can point you the right way at 803.329.5200.

On the Trail With Us

Our Taste Trail Menu

Three courses, $42 per person. We built it the way we build everything here, where Southern and Scottish share a table, and kept it to dishes we were proud to send out all week.

First Course — Orchard in Smoke

A clarified cocktail built on Johnnie Walker Double Black. Clarifying — milk-washing the drink until it pours clear — strips the weight without touching the flavor, so it arrives silky and bright with the Black’s smoke sitting quietly underneath. Orchard fruit up front, a whisper of peat on the finish. It looks simple. It isn’t.

“Clarifying it was the whole point,” says JaQuan Snellings, our bar manager. “You get all the smoke and body of the Double Black, but it pours clear and drinks light. It’s the most technique I’ve ever hidden in a glass that looks this easy.”

Second Course — Cock-a-Leekie Pie

Cock-a-leekie is an old Scottish soup — chicken and leeks, slow and homey. We rebuilt it as a pie: chicken and bacon and sweet, softened leeks under a flaky crust you break into with a fork. Comfort food with a Scottish accent, which is about the most Maisie’s thing we could put on a plate.

“Cock-a-leekie is usually a bowl of soup,” says Jamisen Booker, our chef de cuisine. “I wanted the same flavors — the chicken, the leek, a little smoke off the bacon — but with a crust you get to break into. Scottish comfort food that fits right into what we already do here.”

Third Course — Choice of Dessert

Your pick of three of our sweets: the Boozy Berry Torte, berries and a spoon of liquor over cake; the Sticky Toffee Pudding, dark and warm under toffee sauce; or the Scottish Sundae, our nod to the ice cream parlor by way of the Highlands. End the trail however you like it.

The Taste Trail runs August 19 through 26. Sign up for the pass, then come find us at 2150 Gold Hill Road. Sit. Stay. Supper.