New Dinner Menu Items: Rigatoni, Bone Marrow, Polenta Taragna

Menu Changes 6/15/2017

Rigatoni (86 Gnocchi)

House made extruded pasta (00, durum, semolina, water) tossed in a sauce made from guanciale (cured pork jowl), razor clams, fresh chick peas, and garlic scapes. Razor clams are native to New England, resemble a straight razor in shape; they’re a bit sweeter than other clams and are poached with garlic.  Garlic scapes are the flower of the garlic plant.  They grow out of the center of the bulb and taste like a cross between garlic and a green bean.  The sauce itself is made from the cooking liquid of the clams, garlic, aleppo chili, white wine, lemon, and butter. Tossed with parsley the pasta is then topped with toasted breadcrumbs.  

Allergies: Allium, Gluten*, Dairy*, Shellfish*

Bone Marrow (New Set-up)

The marrow bones (beef shin bones) are soaked in water for 48 hrs to purge them of any blood, then seasoned with salt and pepper and roasted in the pizza oven. When almost finished they're crusted with breadcrumb, and then garnished with pickled green strawberries (pickled in rice wine vinegar, white wine vinegar, sugar, and salt),, shaved fennel, shaved radish, fennel fronds, basil, and celery leaves.

Allergies: Gluten*

Polenta Taragna (New Set-up)

A variety of polenta with cracked buckwheat added to it, it is typically found in northern Italy, most notably around Bergamo and Valtellina. The buckwheat adds a definite toasty nutty flavor to complement the corn in the polenta.  The Polenta is cooked in water, then finished with olio verde and parmesan cheese. Also on the plate is a slow poached egg (cooked at 64 degrees celsius for 1 hour), and morel mushrooms, both pan seared and poached (white wine, white wine vinegar, marsala wine, orange zest, garlic, bay leaf, shallots). The mushrooms are tossed with english peas, seared confit-baby artichokes, garnishing the plate is a pea green pesto (pea greens, pine nuts, parm, pecorino, grapeseed oil), grilled pea greens, and ricotta salata.   The entire dish is gluten free.

Allergies: Dairy*, Pine nuts*-- Pine nuts can be omitted but the whole pesto would be left out. Remember that pine nuts are seeds and not all guests with nut allergies avoid them!

*Allergens that can be removed