Sunday, April 26, 2015

New Red Sauce Bucatini

Red Sauce Bucatini 4/26/2015


Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Pancetta, Tomato, Pecorino
Pancetta, an Italian dry cured pork belly not made in house, that is rendered. Then sliced red onions sweat until soft in the pork belly juices. Food milled tomatoes and crushed pomodorini canned tomatoes  are cooked down and tossed with Bucatini pasta (pasta flour, durum flour, semolina flour and water) and garnished with Pecorino Romano cheese.

Monday, April 20, 2015

New Spring Sandwiches 4/21/2015

New Lunch Sandwiches 4/21/2015

Chicken Salad Sandwich
Pea Tendrils, Olio Verde, Radish, Green Garlic

Whole chicken is diced and tossed with aioli (egg yolk, grape seed oil, lemon juice and honey), grilled green garlic that is first poached in milk and pea puree that is made with pea greens and peas. *Allergies Egg, Gluten & Dairy

Pork Belly Sandwich
Asparagus, Smokey Aioli, Fontina

Pan roasted pork belly with asparagus that is grilled with olive oil and salt and fontina cheese. Accompanied with a smoked egg aioli made from smoked eggs, grape seed oil, lemon juice and garlic and topped with capers. *Allergies Egg, Gluten, Dairy

Salty Pig Sandwich
Today’s Salty Pig Parts, Aged Provolone, Spring Onion-Chili Relish

Served with Today’s Salty Pig Parts, provolone cheese, bibb lettuce and charred spring onion and chili relish made from grilled spring onion that is chopped and mixed with cherry peppers, garlic, dried oregano, olive oil, vinegar, and diced pickles. *Allergies Dairy & Gluten

We will be saying goodbye to the Turkey and Roast Pork Sandwich.

New Menu Items 4/15/2015

New Menu Items 4/15/2015

Pizza Bianca
Morel Mushrooms, Asparagus, Potato, Stracchino, Sunnyside Egg
White pizza (no sauce) is topped with Taleggio and small amount of Mozzarella, thinly sliced white and green asparagus, morel mushrooms (roasted in Olive Oil & Thyme) smashed fingerling potatoes (Olive Oil and Grilled Lemons) and a sunnyside up egg.

Pizza Primavera (replacing Tart Flambee)
Prosciutto Crema, Spring Vegetables, Fontina
Prosciutto creme base (Equal parts ground prosciutto and milk pureed together with equal parts sour cream added until creamy) Topped with Fontina cheese, Spring Vegetables (artichokes, tops of ramp, smashed peas mixed with olive oil, and lemon juice and fiddlehead ferns). Garnished with mint and pea tendrils.

Squid Ink Bucatini (Replacing Gnocchi)
Cuttlefish, Parsley, Lemon, Piri Piri Chili
Bucatini pasta (eggs, egg yolks, durum flour and 00 pasta flour) with the addition of squid ink to make the pasta a black color. The sauce is olive oil, garlic and piri piri chili pepper. The piri piri is bloomed then added to the garlic and olive oil. Then cuttlefish is cooked in white wine until they become tender. Then they are mixed with a small amount of squid ink and water and tossed with the bucatini pasta. It is garnished with fresh lemon juice, torn parsley, olive oil and topped with garlic bread crumb.

Ricotta Ravioli (Replacing Angelotti)
Morels, Fava Leaf, Walnut “tocco di noci”
Ravioli pasta (egg based dough) filled with a Narragansett creamery ricotta (mixed with egg yolks, lemon zest, salt and pepper). Ravioli is then tossed in a butter sauce containing walnuts parsley, chives, and tarragon. Then it is plated with pan roasted morel mushrooms and grilled fava leaves. It is topped with a walnut and oat crumble.

Pea Green Salad (Replacing Baby Kale salad)
Speck, Mint, Preserved Lemon, SP Goat Cheese Dressing
Large pea green leaves mixed with house made goat cheese and preserved lemon dressing. Topped with house made goat cheese, thinly sliced speck, torn mint, raw snow peas and lemon zest.


Pecorino Toscano Fresco $7 (Replacing Bianco Sardo)

Pasteurized sheeps milk cheese from tuscany with DOP protection. This is a younger sheeps milk cheese (aged 30-45 days) which yields a semi soft texture however there is a touch of crystallization. Sweet, grassy, and slightly tangy.



Casatica Di Bufala $7 For Storm

Pasteurized buffalo milk cheese from Lombardy. Animal Rennet, aged 2-3 months. Made by Quattro Portoni, owned by a pair of brothers near bergamo produce traditional italian cheeses but substitute buffalo milk for a twist on tradition. This is a stracchino style cheese, rich creamy and a little nutty, with a bloomy white rind.

Point Reyes BlueP $7 For Caveman Blue

Unpasteurized Cows milk blue cheese from Point Reyes creamery in California. Made from milk from holstein cows, and cave aged. Sweet and creamy with a definitely peppery punch. Great for anyone who likes a strong blue cheese. This is a stilton style cheese and is not ok for a penicillin allergy.