"Step off of the Walnut Street pedestrian bridge and into Whitebird at the Edwin Hotel, a restaurant serving modern takes on Appalachian cuisine. Using ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques from around the region, order cast iron beer cheese crab dip made with jumbo blue crab and buttermilk biscuits served with fresh-made jam and marmalade and molasses honey butter to start. Refresh the palate with sweet pepper crudo tossed in apricot dressing and topped with paddlefish caviar and fried coriander seeds. Next, dine on butter roasted freshwater trout garnished with Benton’s bacon and white bean ragout. There’s white chocolate raspberry sponge cake topped with hazelnut crunch and whipped cream for dessert. Stick to classic cocktails here, including the martini and barrel-aged Old Fashioned." - Beth McKibben
