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(Sip. closed Monday, May 24, 2010)

Today marks the one-year anniversary of Sip. at the wine bar & restaurant in the Uptown Gig Harbor shopping center. To mark the special day, the wine bar - which now serves booze, too - will release its spring menu. Here are a few new additions:

• BBQ Shrimp-Jumbo shrimp, apple-wood bacon, fresh basil and housemade
• Asian BBQ sauce, $13.
• Fried California Roll-Spicy crab with soy dipping sauce and wasabi aioli, $12.
• Crab Salad-Fresh Dungeness crab, watercress, marinated tomato, hard-boiled
• egg and lemon-caper vinaigrette, $13.
• Duo of Duck-Seared breast and leg confit with cherry sauce, potato gratin,
• fresh daily vegetable, $27.
• BBQ Salmon-Wild Alaskan salmon, grilled and basted with housemade Asian
• BBQ sauce, roasted fingerling potatoes, fresh daily vegetable, $23.
• Hand Cut Ribeye-10 oz. Certified Angus with housemade steak sauce, duck fat-whipped potatoes, fresh daily vegetable, $25.

The restaurant also adds Gig Harbor local Daniel Jackson as its lead wine captain. Jackson developed the award-winning wine program at Brix 25 Restaurant in Gig Harbor. His love for Northwest wines will no doubt influence Sip's wine menu.

[Sip. at the wine bar & restaurant, 4793 Point Fosdick Dr. NW, Gig Harbor, 253.853.3020]