Sample Spring Menu

Appetizers
"Biggart Pie" ...pizza al forno topped with tomato sauce, hot Italian sausage and York Hill Farm goat cheese...garden oregano 

Over wintered garden Spinach Soup with a peeky toe crab flan and wild viola

Crisp fried Smoked Quail salad with a salad of lentils, foie gras and crisp shallots
creamy mustard vinaigrette

Home grown Asparagus cooked on our wood grill...served with Culatello ham,
robiola cheese and shaved summer truffles 

Fresh Sardine "roll mops" with kalamata olives and roasted peppers on an onion agrodolce, "gnocco fritto" and baby arugula

Molasses and cracked pepper crusted braised Kurobuta Pork cheek
Parsnip mousseline and asian greens

York Hill Farm Goat cheese wrapped in grapeleaves, grilled and served with marinated olives, toasted levain and garden lettuces

Primo Organic Spring lettuces with Belgian endive,
tiny tomatoes and barrel~aged red wine vinaigrette

Smoked Paprika marinated and charred Octopus tossed with white beans, celery hearts and lovage

Pasta
Ricotta Gnocchi with Lobster, bacon and herbs...tender pea vines and a sweet pea veloute

Black Linguine tossed with grilled Calamari all' Arrabbiata...pickled cherry peppers,
blistered tomatoes and basil

"Fazzoletti" herbed open Ravioli of truffled pecorino with spring vegetables and a
sweet onion vinaigrette...shaved summer truffles 

Mains
Seared local Halibut with a crisp preserved lemon and green garlic risotto cake
Fava beans, Maine shrimp and wild asparagus...buttery asparagus broth

Sautéed scaloppini of Pork "Saltimbocca" served on a bed of roast garlic mashed potato
layered with wilted garden spinach, prosciutto and a sage, mushroom~Madiera jus

Wild Alaskan Salmon baked in a Maine Sea Salt crust...served with a spring vegetable farro
Meyer lemon butter sauce and grilled ramps

Cayuga Duck Breast from the wood grill
with crisp potato gnocchi, morel mushrooms and wild leeks
Hakurei turnips and their greens

Lemon breaded Organic Chicken alla Milanese...baby arugula, herb and tiny tomato salad

Porcini rubbed grass fed "Flat Iron" Steak with Hayden Farms braised short rib
Onion jam and a goat cheese~potato cake

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please note that an 18% gratuity will be added to parties of 6 or more, thank you.