We love discovering which food holidays the calendar has on it each month. This week in particular there are two special days that celebrate a couple of different menu items you'll find at Dog Days Bar & Grill. First up, October 21 is International Day of the Nacho, and right after that on October 22, it's Eat a Pretzel Day.
Well, our waterfront restaurant & bar at the Lake of the Ozarks is the perfect place to enjoy both of those fantastic food items. Here's a look at each of them plus the rest of our amazing appetizer menu items too. (Although our nachos are so big and delicious, they've got their own section of the menu outside of the appetizer section!
Gourmet Nachos
While many places have their nachos listed as an appetizer, here at the Dog, we serve the biggest and best nachos at the Lake of the Ozarks with incredible toppings that have earned our versions their very own section of the menu! The base for all of our nacho plates starts the same but after that, each one is deliciously different.
First, we start with a bed of corn tortilla chips, chile con queso, and shredded cheddar jack cheese. Next, depending on which version you decide to order, we pile on the delicious toppings below and serve it all up with salsa and sour cream on the side.
Jerk Chicken Nachos
Jerk dry-rubbed chicken thighs, pico, jalapenos, and shredded lettuce all drizzled with a roasted tomato jalapeno cream.
Buffalo Chicken Nachos
Hand-breaded chicken tenders chopped and tossed with Buffalo sauce, diced celery, bleu cheese crumbles, and jalapenos.
Seafood Nachos
Crab, shrimp, and scallops sauteed in a spicy Cajun sauce, pico, peppadews, and jalapenos.
BBQ Pork Nachos
Slow-smoked pulled pork, jalapenos, and sweet & spicy pickles all drizzled with bourbon BBQ sauce.
Beef Nachos
Taco-spiced ground beef, pico, jalapenos, and shredded lettuce all drizzled with a roasted tomato jalapeno cream.
Giant Pretzels
Now, for Eat a Pretzel Day, well, you'd better show up hungry if you're going to do that at Dog Days Bar & Grill! Our Pub Pretzel with Beer Cheese fills up an entire plate! These salted Bavarian pretzels are huge, making them a very hearty appetizer to indulge in alone.
To make them even more irresistible, we serve each giant pub pretzel with our Snapper IPA beer cheese sauce for dipping. For those of you unfamiliar with Snapper IPA, it is a delicious craft beer from our friends at Logboat Brewing Company out of Columbia, MO. We love eating it as a beer cheese sauce as much as we love drinking it as a refreshing beer!
Amazing Appetizers
The food holidays we find on the calendar give you an extra excuse to indulge in some favorite dishes. Of course, if you're not quite in the mood for nachos or pretzels, we've got a long list of other awesome appetizers for you to choose from too. For example:
Tuna Poke
Diced Ahi tuna tossed in a sweetened soy-ginger sauce served with diced mango, wakame, pickled ginger, cucumber, kiwi, wasabi cream, ginger sauce, and toasted sesame seeds and is served with fried wontons.
Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms
Giant mushroom caps stuffed full of garlic, sausage, scallions, and cream cheese and topped with Provel cheese, baked golden brown, and dusted with bread crumbs and fresh parsley.
Avocado Relleno
We take a fresh avocado cut in half, hand bread it, and fry it to a golden brown. It's served on a black-eyed pea salsa, topped with sweet and spicy sauteed shrimp, and drizzled in a roasted tomato jalapeno cream. You can also try it "beach" style and keep it fresh, not fried.
Hickory-Smoked Wings
Slow-smoked then fried crispy and tossed with one of our amazing sauces, served with crisp celery and your choice of buttermilk ranch or blue cheese dressing. Wing sauce choices include:
- Bourbon BBQ
- Teriyaki
- Garlic Parmesan
- 13-Pepper Dry Rub
- Buffalo
- Original
- Lemon Pepper & Garlic
- Hot Honey
- Inferno
Southern Fried Chicken Tenders
Five hand-breaded chicken tenders, buttermilk breading, deep-fried golden brown and crisp, served with your choice of ranch, BBQ, or honey mustard. You may also try them tossed in one of our amazing wing sauces.
Peel and Eat Shrimp
Your choice served chilled or hot-boiled, served with fresh lemon and cocktail sauce in orders of 10 or 20.
Calamari
A half-pound of flash-fried curly calamari filets served with chilled spicy marinara and fresh lemon.
Crab Rangoon
Six fried wontons filled with cream cheese and crab, served with a sweet Thai chili sauce.
Crab Legs
Sweet, succulent snow crab clusters boiled in our southern spices, sold by the pound, and served with lemon and drawn butter.
Once you make it past the apps on our menu, there's a long list of delicious sandwiches, burgers, entrees, and more waiting for you to enjoy too. Join us soon at Dog Days Bar & Grill in Osage Beach and celebrate whichever food you happen to be hungry for that day, no holiday needed!
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