Saturday, September 16, 2017

New Dinner Items: Ceasar Salad, Polpette

Caesar Salad  $11
Chicories, Anchovy, Parmesan, Black Pepper
Chicories are a family of bitter greens.  The salad is made with Endive, frisee, romaine, radicchio and romaine hearts.  The salad will be dressed with caesar dressing (Pasteurized egg yolks, grape seed oil, olive oil, lemon, salt, anchovies, black pepper, parmesan), lemon juice, black pepper, parsley, chives and ciabatta croutons.

For our friends with seafood allergies or our vegetarian guests, we do have the option of a “Misticanza alla Romana”, or a bitter green and herb salad like they eat near Rome.  Same greens as the caesar, but with a lemon-thyme vinaigrette.  Please do not special it, but instead keep it in your back pocket for when it’s needed.

Allergies: dairy*, seafood*, egg*, gluten*


Polpette $10
SP Meatballs & Sunday Gravy

The Meatballs: Pork and beef meatballs with garlic, parsley, pecorino, parmesan, and a panada of egg, breadcrumb, and half and half.  Three to an order.
Sunday Gravy:  Inspired by the awesome meat sauce our Italian-American grandmothers made all day on Sunday afternoons.  We take salumi trim (if it comes off the slicer, it’s likely in there) and render it down to add salt and body to the final sauce.  We then toss in onions and garlic, sweat them off, and deglaze with red wine.  Add in milled San Marzano tomatoes and let stew for 2.5 hours.  The meatballs are baked in the sauce.  

Allergies: Allium, Dairy, Egg, Gluten

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Chicory And Caesar Salad

Hi Team!

We will be taking the Pea Green Salad off of the lunch menu tomorrow afternoon and replacing it with a chicory and caesar salad. Please see the specs below:


Chicory and Caesar Salad:

Chicories are bitter greens.  The salad will be made with Endive, frisee, romaine, radicchio and romaine hearts.  The salad will be dressed with caesar dressing (Pasteurized egg yolks, grape seed oil, olive oil, lemon, salt, anchovies, black pepper, parmesean) , lemon, black pepper, parsley, chives and ciabatta croutons.

Caesar salad:
The salad's creation is generally attributed to restaurateur Caesar Cardini, an Italian immigrant who operated restaurants in Mexico and the United States. Cardini was living in San Diego but he was also working in Tijuana where he avoided the restrictions of Prohibition. His daughter Rosa (1928–2003) recounted that her father invented the dish when a Fourth of July 1924 rush depleted the kitchen's supplies. Cardini made do with what he had, adding the dramatic flair of the table-side tossing "by the chef." A number of Cardini's staff has since claimed to have invented the dish