SAMPLE CAFE MENU, FEBRUARY 2025
Little Gems lettuce with blood oranges, mint, and Lucques olives, $19
Chicories salad with toasted hazelnuts, sherry vinaigrette, and Parmesan, $19
Wild mushroom-butter bean crostini with shaved fennel and wild rocket, $22
Star Route Farms garden lettuces with Banyuls vinaigrette, $12
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces, $19
Red lentil soup with turmeric, cumin, and green chile yogurt, $12
Casarecce pasta with cauliflower romanesco, Meyer lemon, walnuts, sage, and pecorino, $28
Pan-fried rockfish with spinach, cabbage, pink turnips, tarragon, and aïoli, $42
Chicken al mattone with winter squash purée, sprouting broccoli, and chile oil, $34
Grilled beef bavette with fried onions, garlicky greens, carrots, and tapenade $42
Pizza tomato sauce, spicy sausage, red onions, and marjoram, $29
Pizza with roasted radicchio, rosemary, and goat cheese, $28
Side orders: A plate of olives or anchovies, $7 each
Pink Lady apple-sour cherry galette with vanilla ice cream, $15
Bittersweet chocolate pavé with Earl Grey tea ice cream and candied almonds, $15
Cardamom panna cotta with tangerines and shortbread cookies, $15
Meyer lemon ice cream meringata with huckleberries, $15
A bowl of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard Kishu mandarins and Flying Disc Ranch dates, $15
Saint Valentine’s Day
Friday, February 14
$135 per person
Dungeness crab and salmon caviar toast
Goat cheese pudding soufflé with wild mushrooms, pink radicchio, and endive hearts
Grilled grass-fed beef filet with truffle butter and madeira sauce; with winter vegetable ragoût and crispy potatoes
Bittersweet chocolate tartlet with candied blood orange and pistachio praline
*Vegetarian option of the Valentine’s Day menu will be available upon request.
Updated February 10, 2025
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