Acadiana uses Eastern Shore snapping turtles for its signature turtle soup. It's a classic New Orleans favorite started by searing it off and braising the meat, putting it in a roux with veggies, and topping it off with sherry and chopped hard boiled egg.

Gator is common in Cajun cuisine. So it's no surprise that on Wednesdays Bayou serves up an alligator special that might come in the form of chili, etouffee, and other traditional Cajun dishes.

It's not a surprise that a French restaurant would feature a wide variety of game and other creates. At dinner, Bistro Cacao offers a pheasant pate with cornichons. Or stop by at lunch to try grilled quail with goat cheese potato cake and red wine sauce.

Among the various wurst and schnitzel found at Cafe Mozart, there's a venison steak with lingonberry sauce on the menu. And don't neglect the selection of German chocolates and sweets on the way out.

The slightly rustic menu at Cedar features a wide variety of wild meats. Currently on the menu are a grilled cervena venison with gnocchi, split peas and ham, as well as wild boar with sweet potato tart and bacon vinaigrette, or a choice of elk or rabbit sausage.

Dino's Grotto serves up a variety of dishes featuring wild boar. Start with a wild boar pate with pistachios and mustard, move on to a wild boar papardelle with cream, tomato, onion and pecorino, and go for the gusto with a three-rib wild boar chop.

Grilled and roasted quail are common in Asian cuisine. Find two Vietnamese preparation at Four Sisters, a roasted appetizer with lime dip or an entree size roasted quail on rice.

They say gator tastes like chicken, so whatever way to have it than in fried form? The Grill from Ipanema serves jacaré ao pantanal, fried alligator with a spicy honey mustard sauce on the side.

Each March, all Rocklands locations host Grills Gone Wild. Previous years have featured wild beaver sausage, and muskrat stew. And for those who have ideas for other "wild" animals, let Rocklands know and it might be featured next March.

Elk is a part of Northern Russian cuisine, and there is plenty of elk on the menu at Russia House. Find it in elk and cherry sauce, pan-roasted elk paired with sausage, or pancetta-wrapped elk with cauliflower, and kabocha squash.

Gator isn't just for folks in the Gulf Coast. SEI does an Asian take on alligator by crisping them up with a spicy soy glaze.

Game animals find their form in sausages at Sur la Place. Choose from wild boar and cranberry, pheasant or venison sausages.

Along with boar, buffalo and elk burgers on the regular menu, Thunder Burger has a reputation for meats on the wild side. Check its Facebook page for its Wednesdays specials like antelope tamales, kangaroo Swedish meatballs, and ostrich sliders.

Head over to Westover Beer Garden for their rotating daily wild burger. In the past this has featured options like kangaroo, elk, camel and yak. Enjoy it in the beer garden with one of six drafts, and when grab some unique meats supplied by Fossil Farms to take home.

Japanese robata grills have always had a variety of meats and cuts like chicken skin and gizzards. At Zentan, get a marinated half quail from the grill as one of many grilled meat selections.