Picture by Rachel Lukas.
Springtime sends a particular buzz of exercise up and down the peninsula as favourite eating places reopen their doorways and new institutions welcome friends for the primary of hopefully many seasons. Through the subsequent few weeks, New Eats will showcase a few of the thrilling new locations so as to add to your must-try listing this season. This week, Misplaced Tuk Tuk, situated inside what was once Czarnuska Soup Bar in Ephraim, kicks off the collection.
“We actually needed to supply meals and an area that gave the impression to be lacking in northern Door County,” mentioned Ben McMahon, proprietor of Misplaced Tuk Tuk.
With its streamlined menu – all meals suits into both the curry, rice or noodle class – and contemporary substances, Misplaced Tuk Tuk serves up various meals choices that includes worldwide flavors.
“All the dishes are as near what you’ll discover touring Asia,” McMahon mentioned, noting the Taiwanese beef noodle soup – a basic Taiwanese dish made with the institution’s handmade noodles – and Dakbokkeumtang, a Korean homestyle braised rooster dish, as favorites on the present menu.
Friends searching for gluten-free and vegan dishes needn’t fear as a result of the menu positively has them in thoughts, too.
“We needed to be accessible to everybody, and carrying gluten-free and vegan choices was a good way to try this,” McMahon mentioned, citing a necessity within the county for extra selection amongst these choices. “So we ended up with half of our menu being gluten free and simply over half being vegan.”
And should you occur to swing by on Friday or Saturday evening, the “ingesting menu” gives small bites which are good for accompanying the restaurant’s unconventional grownup beverage listing.
“Being in a city with two already unbelievable wine lists and an equally nice beer bar, we needed to supply a wine listing of funky, experimental and weird, pure wine together with informal beer,” McMahon mentioned. “The inspiration [for the drinking menu] comes from wanting to supply some objects that don’t match with our lunch idea.”
It’s additionally an incentive for friends to go to actually because the ingesting menu and wine listing are more likely to change virtually weekly – or as typically as they really feel like shaking issues up. In the meantime, the common lunch menu can be seasonal, with the summer season menu launching someday in mid-Could and operating by way of the tip of August.
McMahon mentioned a number of thought went into the restaurant’s idea, given the competitors that exists on the peninsula.
“Door County already has so many unbelievable eating choices that we actually appeared arduous at what was lacking,” he mentioned.
The choice they created – fast, inexpensive, uncommon meals in a colourful, accessible house – is one you’ll wish to uncover for your self, too.
