- Cooper’s Hawk makes its own wines discovered on the menu. Diners can sample tastes prior to buying a bottle.Diners can have
- their red white wines aerated at the table, a grand spectacle.Don’t think
- food isn’t crucial. The menu uses 110 alternatives, including vegetarian, gluten-free and low-calorie options.Wine fans, rejoice. The
Des Moines metro lands a brand-new dining establishment that concentrates on matching wines with food.Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant opens in Clive on Dec. 5
, taking control of a plot of land that formerly housed Granite City Food & Brewery. The brewery opted to close in March 2020, and Cooper’s Hawk swooped in to take down the structure and develop the brand-new 11,300-square-foot area at the corner of University Avenue and 128th Street.Cooper’s Hawk’s objective is to bring Napa Valley to Clive, making the brand’s own red wines and using a white wine club for people to improve acquainted with the red wines available.” If you do not like a red wine, it’s a bad white wine for you,”stated Tom Koenigsberg, the chief marketing officer and brand name strategist for the company. His comment is suggested as acknowledgment that not everyone likes all red wines, and individuals ought to discover a white wine they like, an overriding approach for Cooper’s Hawk.A red wine enthusiast’s paradise Wine fans of every stage from beginner to pro can sample 4 white wines for$10. Tasting notes give drinkers an idea of what flavors to discover in a white wine: red plum and black cherry in a tempranillo
, blackberry and black currant in a Meritage.The notes include a flavor profile that shows simply just how much sweet taste, acidity, body, tannins and alcohol the white wine consists of, along with the grape origin(Rioja, Span, or Mendocino County, California, for example),
the white wine’s personality(“chocolatey and rich “or”quite and spicy, “for instance)and what kinds of food the white wine pairs well with.The high end chain out of Orland Park, Illinois, on the southwest side of Chicago opened in 2005 after founder Tim McEnery was on a date at a winery that was going truly well and he didn’t want it to
end. The winery didn’t have a restaurant, and the idea to integrate a winery with a restaurant clicked in McEnery’s head.Now the brand name has 50ish locations covering Kansas City, Missouri, to Miami with more en route to Arizona, Illinois and more in 10 states. The Clive location marks the very first in Iowa.McEnery, by the way, married Dana, the lady he was
on a date with.Take a walk through Cooper’s Hawk Restaurants stroll into a tasting space and present shop at the front of the restaurant. Here, visitors can sample red wine flights or tastings and pick up wine glasses, aerators, chocolates, cheese knives, cutting boards, and bottles and bottles of
wine.Keep walking forward to the bar area, and the host stand. Turn right to walk down a hallway to the dining room, where clients can enjoy their meals prepared in an open cooking area. Everything at Cooper’s Hawk is made from scratch, so the barbecue maple glaze on the pretzel-crusted pork chops and the giardiniera on a chicken dish are made in home.
Cooper’s Hawk works with a Chicago household, who makes the gnocchi the restaurant serves by hand.What on the menu at Cooper’s Hawk?The restaurant serves lunch and dinner daily with most meals leaning into American fare with a hint of Asian components in some.Diners can begin with a candied bacon and artisan cheese plate for $23.99, a batch of crispy Brussels sprouts with sweet Thai chili for$16.99, or drunken shrimp, a gluten-free meal with bacon-wrapped shrimp and a tequila lime butter for$ 19.99. Chef Nick Borgia said that the Brussels sprouts and inebriated shrimp started as chef’s specials and by popular need joined the permanent menu.For entrees, the restaurant serves seafood meals such as a soy ginger Atlantic
salmon for $30.99, and Parmesan-crusted mahi for $32.99, as well as hearty chicken piccata for$22.99, and churrasco grilled steak for$38.99. One area of the menu covers burgers and sandwiches, including a crispy buttermilk chicken sandwich and the bleu cheese and crispy onion hamburger, both for $18.99, while another focuses on pastas and risottos, discussing a braised short rib risotto for$32.99 and
a baked Parmesan shrimp scampi for$24.99. Vegetarian meals likewise make a look, with alternatives such as roasted veggie enchiladas and sweet corn tomato risotto, both for $22.99, as do gluten-free items, noted on the menu.From 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., diners can buy lunch-sized portions of spaghetti and meatballs ($17.99), gnocchi with roasted buttermilk squash( $16.99), and chicken madeira($19.99 ). Another area on the 110-item menu functions meals under 600 calories: a$15.99 turkey hamburger, a $32.99 grilled tenderloin medallions, and a$31.99 blackened ahi tuna.Each Cooper’s Hawk has its own design, with brand-new ones in Arizona handling a more Southwest feel and some in the Chicago area sporting a commercial feel. In Clive, the vibe is all
about a chic modern-day visual with a living wall of plants and black visits set off by tan leather cubicles and light woods on the tables and chairs that pepper the dining-room. When the weather warms, the dining establishment will open its 600-square-foot patio.Cooper’s Hawk makes its own white wines And of course, the star of the show at Cooper’s Hawk is the white wine. The dining establishment buys grapes from around the world to make its own pinot noir, chardonnay or Aussie GSM
, a mix of grenache, shiraz and malbec grapes. In general, the business makes practically 60 different white wines, and sells just its own red wines in its restaurants. Cooper’s Hawk also produces 12 red wines of the month each year, along with an ice wine, a port-like Nightjar, and mulled wines and sangrias.Diners who buy a bottle of red white wine will have it aerated at the table, a grand spectacle that encourages other clients to crane their necks to see the glass contraption and after that request the same
. Consumers can then pour their own glasses table side.”The red wine precedes and after that it’s paired with the food, “stated Erin Vainer, the senior marketing specialist at Cooper’s Hawk.The restaurant boasts 600,000 members in its white wine club. Beginning at $19.99 a month, members get access to a different bottle of white wine on a monthly basis, an unique wine pairing supper, and discount rates on bottles of wine, takeout and retail products. Members even have a chance to go on white wine trips to the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.”We produce a community for our red wines, “Koenigsberg said.Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Dining Establishment, 12801 University Ave., Clive; 515-513-3330 Open Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.Susan Stapleton is the entertainment editor at The Des Moines Register. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, or drop her a line at [email protected].