Cafe Menus

SAMPLE CAFE MENU, DECEMBER 2024

Little Gems lettuce with marinated beets, fennel, radishes, and ginger vinaigrette, $18
Radicchio and Fuyu persimmon salad with toasted hazelnuts and pecorino, $19
Clams cooked in the wood oven with guajillo chiles, garlic toast, and aïoli, $24
Star Route Farms garden lettuces with Banyuls vinaigrette, $12
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces, $19
Sunchoke soup with turmeric and cilantro yogurt, $12

Casarecce pasta with cauliflower, walnuts, currants, saffron, marjoram, and ricotta salata, $30
Crispy petrale sole with celery root rémoulade, marble potatoes, carrots, and Meyer lemon, $40
Sonoma County duck confit with Red Kuri squash purée, sprouting broccoli, and olive salsa, $39
Grilled grass-fed beef coulotte with shoestring potatoes, Scarlet Queen turnips, chard, and Zinfandel butter, $44
Pizza with tomato sauce, fennel sausage, hot pepper, and rosemary, $29
Pizza with chanterelle mushrooms, leeks, and gremolata, $32

Side orders: A plate of olives or anchovies, $7 each

Pink Lady apple galette with cinnamon ice cream, $15
Meyer lemon cream puffs with huckleberries, $15
Pear sorbet with Zinfandel-raspberry zuppa, pomegranate, and Fuyu persimmon, $15
Bittersweet chocolate custard with crème chantilly and walnut cookies, $15
A Dashing Ranch Warren pear with Flying Disc Ranch Medjool and Barhi dates, $15

Updated December 6, 2024


A 17% service charge is added to your bill to ensure fair, equitable wages, and benefits for all Chez Panisse employees.
Should you wish to acknowledge the staff for an exceptional experience, we have included an optional tip line. Tips go into a tip pool distributed among all employees, in both dining room and kitchen, who help to create your dining experience.


Service charge: 17 percent.           Sales tax: 10.25 percent.           Corkage $40/bottle, $70/magnum

Website artwork by Patricia Curtan.

1517 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705