New Years Eve Ala Carte Menu

 
 
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Cassidy Photo
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Appetizers

roasted sweet potato and root vegetable roulade with warmed aged spanish goat cheese, picholine olives, caper berries and aged balsamic $9

maytag blue cheesecake with grilled quince, arugula, spiced pecans, and tahitian vanilla quince sorbet $9

backfin crab cakes with remoulade sauce, arugula-kohlrabi salad, pomegranate relish and pomegranate sorbet $14

oyster carpaccio with artichoke panna cotta, illinois sturgeon caviar, gaufrette potatoes $16

baby spinach salad with smoked bacon and shallot dressing, truffle poached farmers egg, and pretzel melba toast $7

Soups

lemongrass and butternut squash with black mussels $8

chestnut consommé with nantucket bay scallops, crispy pork belly, and chestnut froth $8

Fish and Shellfish

butter poached maine lobster with black capellinni, beaujolais pomegranate reduction, roasted salsify logs, lemon thyme emulsion $45

grilled artic char with fennel confit, fennel pollen dusted doughnuts, fennel and apple salad and fennel frond froth $26

pan roasted barramundi with poached maine lobster ruby red grapefruit, radish sprouts, baby bok choy, toasted apricot seeds, and lobster-veal bone marrow reduction $34

Meat, Game and Poultry

herb roaste ten ounce veal chop with braised veal breast salsify strüdel, served with truffled napa cabbage salad and sauce rossini $42

grilled elk chop with roasted venison medallions in a pistachio crust with spiced carrot purée, chive spaetzle, and lingonberry sauce $38

kumquat lacquered beef hanger steak with imported feta polenta, pickled red onion and seedling farms dried blueberry chutney$26

grilled buffalo rib-eye with sautéed swiss chard, swiss chard stems, blue cheese polenta, crispy onions and beaujolais sauce $39

boneless roasted quail stuffed with chestnuts, duck liver, and served with brussel sprout leaves, senf-kraut austrian sweet potato slip dumplings $32

Vegetarian

organic parsley risotto with vegetable capellinni, warmed tallegio, white truffle emulsion, and poached quail egg $24

porcini mushroom parpardelle with wild mushrooms, parmesan reggianno, sautéed rapinni and sliced chestnut $24

Desserts

apple and golden raisin bread pudding, huckleberry compote, bourbon caramel, and vanilla ice cream $7

sorbet assortment, apple, pear, pomegranate, and red wine poached pears $7

caramelized meyer lemon tart, candied fennel, citrus segments, mascarpone cream, blood red orange granite $8

bittersweet flourless chocolate cake, espresso cream, passion fruit sorbet, and crispy milk-chocolate $8

 
   
   
 
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