NEW YEAR'S EVE 2016!

Please join us for our last special menu of the year! Whether spending the evening with us is your plan or part of your plan, we are happy to offer you a glass of complimentary sparkling when you arrive & guarantee for you an evening filled with holiday cheer & celebratory well wishes for all. We have been told that this is our best menu of the year and whether they save the best for last or like to go out with a bang (or both), Eric, Ariana & their team have already started planning this 5 course menu and are honored to feed you your last meal of 2016!

MENU SNEAK PEEK

AMUSE

Buckwheat Bellini

sea vegetable caviar, cashew crème fraiche, 

smoked shaved abalone mushroom, avocado

 

TWO

Warm Spinach & Frisee Salad

smoked kohlrabi, "pastramied" roasted beets, leek vinaigrette

 

THREE

5 Treasure Dumpling

grilled oyster mushroom, bean thread noodle, goji berry, chestnut, ginko nuts & cabbage filling, Matzutake-sake broth, healing aromatics & roots,

 yuzu-sancho pepper oil 

 

FOUR

Pomme Rosti Rossini

grilled Portobello, truffled pate, smoked tempeh, Rossini sauce, seared rapini, preserved lemon & green olive

or

Butternut Rugosa Uttapam

black eyed pea & collard green curry, spicy peanut sambal, 

new year chaat, avocado pakora

 

FIVE

Chocolate Praline Marjolaine Cake

chocolate crème fraiche, rum pastry crème, hazelnut cake, almpond praline paste, burnt caramel, hazelnut brittle

or 

Pomegranate Champagne Pot De Creme

Champagne-blood orange-pink peppercorn preserve, chiacchiere angel wing cookies, pomegranate elderflower compote, white chocolate dust

 

Saturday, December 31st

Reservations from 5:30pm-10:30pm

5 course celebratory prix fixe menu

$95/person (before tax/gratuity)

$35/optional wine pairing 

Taco Tuesday November 15

TACO TUESDAY

Tuesday, November 15!

5:30pm-9:30pm

$5 per taco or $28 prix fixe!

 

small or entree bowl of Pozole Rojo with all the fixins!

 

PRIX FIXE MENU

ONE

Satsuma Mandarin & Jicama Salad

Mexican mint marigold, toasted pumpkin seeds

TWO

Yucateco Style Mushrooms & Sunflower Seeds black chile mole

Smoked Jackfruit Pastor papalo oil, salsa fresca

Crunchy Popcorn Broccoli sweet habenero sauce, aioli & avocado

THREE

Ice Cream Sundae details tbd

prix fixe includes seasonal margarita, draft beer or kombucha

Sans Liege Mushroom Winemaker Dinner

Join us on Wednesday, November 9 for a four course mushroom menu paired with bold & unique Sans Liege wines! We needed this rain and aren't complaining about the early Porcinis that come along with it! Curt Schalchlin will be present and both he and Eric will be available to talk about wine and food on this very special evening.

 "In taking up my own journey, I've learned to not discount any field for its quirks and eccentricities, however, for in diversity lies the promise of uncommon opportunity"

MENU SNEAK PEEK

ONE

Matzutake Carpaccio

sizzling ginger oil, sea vegetables, avocado

Viognier/Rousanne/Grenache Blanc/Marsanne, Cotes du Coast, 

Central Coast, Ca 14

TWO

Yellow Finn Potato Gnocchi

Gold Chanterelle cream, smoked dried cherries, crisp sunchokes

Mourvedre, Groundwork, Highlands Vineyard, 

Santa Barbara, Ca 14

THREE

choice of

Roasted Pumpkin

coffee & chile rubbed grilled portobello mushroom,

crisp masa molotes, rich black mole, black bean & pigs ear mushroom salsa

Grenache, Sans Liege, "Fool's Errand", 

Santa Barbara County, Ca 13

-or-

Porcini Pot Pie

rosemary pastry crust, roasted root vegetables, sage smoked tempeh, 

mustard seed cream

Syrah/Grenache/Mourvedre, Sans Liege, "Transcendentalist", 

Santa Barbara County, Ca

FOUR

Pear Tarte Tatin

candied walnut spice ice cream, Candy Cap caramel

Viognier, Groundwork, Santa Barbara County, Ca 14    

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Reservations available from 5:30pm-9:00pm 

4-course prix fixe menu with Sans Liege wine pairings 

$60/person (includes wine pairing)

Please reserve through our website or call our host for a reservation 510.735.9459

be sure to mention that you are joining us for the

wine dinner in your reservation notes!

(Our First!) Fall Pumpkin & Cider Dinner

Join us on Thursday, October 27th for a four course fall pumpkin themed menu paired with Devoto Orchards cider! Eric has known (and been purchasing apples/cider from) the Devotos for the past twenty years and we are thrilled to create this cozy and delicious evening for you. We are already working on our pumpkin hot toddy recipe! Stay tuned for menu details.

 

Thursday, October 27, 2016

Reservations available from 5:30pm-9:00pm 

4-course prix fixe menu with Devoto Cider pairings
(a la carte options available, as always, at our bar!)

$50/person $18/optional beverage pairing

Please reserve through our website or call our host for a reservation 510.735.9459

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Thanksgiving Dinner 2016!

Thanksgiving Dinner 2016!

THANKSGIVING DINNER 2016!

Join us for our second Thanksgiving in Oakland! 

If you've dined with us on Thanksgiving before, you may remember:

roasted chestnuts, black eyed pea chow chow, smoked pimento pate, pear mostarda, maple-pecan sweet potato pie, roasted Brussels sprouts & brassicas, cardamom scented cranberry-apple relish, roasted kabocha squash, wild mushroom torte...chocolate marbled pumpkin pie with bourbon cream & huckleberry compote...We'd love to have you back (or for the first time!) for our second Thanksgiving dinner in Oakland! This year we will be donating a portion of each menu to the Native American Rights Fund--a non profit organization that provides legal assistance to Native American tribes, organizations & individuals.


 

Thanksgiving
Thursday, November 24

Reservations from 2pm-8pm

5 course prix fixe menu

$68/person; $32/children under 12

Please reserve HERE or by phone 510.735.9459