Dog Days Bar & Grill Lake of the Ozarks: appetizers

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Our Awesome Appetizers Get A Meal Started Right!

The first page of the Dog Days Bar & Grill menu features an array of the best appetizers at the Lake of the Ozarks. When you think "appetizer," small portions may come to mind, just enough to whet your appetite before the main meal. Well, that's not necessarily true in our case! Our Lake of the Ozarks waterfront restaurant serves up great big helpings of our appetizers, in some cases large enough to eat as your meal! Check out what we have on the menu for you this season.

Dog Days Bar & Grill, Lake of the Ozarks, appetizers

Crab Legs
Sweet, succulent snow crab legs boiled in our southern spices are served with lemon and garlic butter. Sold by the pound (2 clusters.)

Avocado Relleno
We take fresh avocado, cut it in half, hand-bread it, and fry until golden brown. Then we stuff it with sweet and spicy sauteed shrimp, Texas caviar, and a roasted tomato and jalapeno cream. Try it beach style and keep it fresh instead of fried.

Crispy Lobster Bites
Deep fried and served with horsey peppadew aioli and fresh lemon.

Hickory Smoked Wings
Smoked then fried crispy and served with celery and ranch or blue cheese dressing. You get to choose a sauce from these 7 amazing flavors: Original, Extra Hot, Bourbon BBQ, Teriyaki, Honey Habanero, Spicy Garlic, or our Chili & Jalapeno Dry Rub.

Southern Fried Chicken Tenders
Hand-breaded chicken tenderloins, fried golden brown and served with buttermilk ranch or BBQ. You can try them tossed in your favorite wing sauce too!

Ahi Tuna Platter
Seared yellow fin tuna, chilled and sliced thin, served with jicama slaw, sesame ginger sauce, wasabi cream, and pickled onions.

Crab Rangoon
Crispy fired wontons filled with crabmeat, cream cheese, and spices. Served with mango chutney dipping sauce.

DOG DAYS NACHOS
One type of nacho for our appetizer menu simply wasn't enough for our creative chefs. Once they started creating, they couldn't stop! All of our nachos start with corn tortillas, chile con queso, salsa, and sour cream with your favorite style of toppings, featured below:

BBQ Pork
Slow-smoked pulled pork, Bourbon BBQ, Texas caviar, and spicy pickles.

Jerk Chicken
Island-smoked chicken breast, jerk sauce, diced mango, black-eyed peas, pico, and roasted shoepeg corn.

Spicy Beef or Chicken
Seasoned ground beef, pico, jalapenos, cheddar jack cheese, shredded lettuce, and roasted tomato jalapeno cream sauce.

Seafood
Crab, shrimp, scallops, Cajun sauce, diced tomato, peppadews, and jalapenos.

Thai Tuna Nachos
Seared Ahi yellow fin tuna served chilled and tossed in our Thai chili marinade and sweetened soy sauce. We put this on top of fried wontons, fresh mango, wakame, pickled ginger, fresh lime, wasabi cream, and roasted red pepper puree.

Whether you decide to order on of our delicious appetizers as a midday snack to enjoy along with a cold beverage lakeside, you order it for your meal, or even better, order a few and share them with a group of friends, we know that you're going to love all of the choices listed above. Our waterfront bar & restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks opens at 11 am, 7 days a week, and we serve food late into the evening. If you give our appetizers a try and still have some room left, there are lots of amazing dishes awaiting your order on the rest of the Dog Days Bar & Grill menu too. Come back often this season and give them all a try!

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Awesome Appetizers Offer a Quick, Delicious Bite

The next big event that Dog Days Bar & Grill is getting ready for is the 31st Annual Fall Harbor Hop on Saturday, October 8, 2016. We realize that everyone is busy that day trying to hit as many stops as possible. Rather than a big meal, you may prefer a quick bite, and your favorite waterfront restaurant at the Lake of the Ozarks has a giant Starters Menu full of flavor for you to order from.

Hickory Smoked Wings
We take our Award Winning smoked wings and toss them with your choice of sauce, then serve them up with celery and ranch or bleu cheese dressing. Sauce choices include:

Original
Extra Hot
BBQ
Teriyaki
Spicy Garlic
Honey Habanero

Buffalo Chicken Dip
This zesty and creamy dip features the great taste of buffalo chicken wings without all the mess! Topped with melted Mozzarella cheese and served with corn tortilla chips.

Dog Days Bar & Grill, Lake of the Ozarks

Chicken Tenders

We hand bread and fry five chicken tenders, then serve them with your choice of dipping sauce. For an added kick, try them tossed in any of our wing sauces.

Nachos
Corn tortilla chips smothered in chili con queso, pico de gallo, and jalapenos. Served with salsa and sour cream on the side. Feel like adding some meat? Try:

Spicy Ground Beef
Steak
Jerk Chicken
Seafood

Thai Tuna Nachos
Ahi tuna is diced and served chilled, tossed in our Thai chile sauce and sweetened soy, on top of crisp wonton chips, fresh mango, wakame, pickled ginger, and drizzled with Wasabi cream.

Crab Rangoon
A delicious blend of crab meat, cream cheese, and herbs stuffed in 6 crispy wonton skins. Served with a sweet and sour mango dipping sauce.

Cheesy Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
Jumbo mushroom caps packed full of house blend sausage, green onions, and cream cheese, all topped with melted mozzarella and toasted bread crumbs.

Fried Pickles
An Ozark Favorite! Hand breaded garlic pickle slices fried golden brown and served with jalapeno ranch dressing.

Bacon Wrapped Meatballs
Our house blend sausage wrapped with smoky bacon, then tossed in cheddar and bourbon BBQ sauce and served with garlic bread.

Asian Ahi Tuna
A fresh Ahi tuna filet seared and served chilled with fresh slaw, Asian ginger sauce, and spicy wasabi.

Quesadilla
A large crispy flour tortilla with a blend of cheddar jack cheese, black beans, black olives, pico do gallo, and your choice of meat melted together. Served with salsa and sour cream on the side. Choices include:

Cheese
Blackened Steak
Jerk Chicken
Shrimp

Crab Legs
Boiled in our secret spices, these sweet, succulent snow crab legs are served with lemon and drawn butter.

We'll get your order in and served up quickly so that you can head to your next Harbor Hop stop, but you don't have to be in a big hurry to leave. Our Lake of the Ozarks waterfront bar is offering 2 card pickup points this year, so we're like 2 stops in 1! Plus, the always entertaining Noe Palma will be performing from 1-5 pm, and you don't want to miss that. Dog Days Bar & Grill is still open 7 days a week at 11 am, and the weather is still awesome. Come on by.