TAPAS CALIENTES

CORN CHOWDER

Brentwood sweet white corn, chipotle and guajillo chilies, blended with cream. Served with huitlacoche and scallions

HUITLACOCHE is a sporous fungus that feeds off corn before its ears fully develop

 

TORTILLA ESPANOLA

Traditional potato and sweet onion Spanish omelette. Served with lemon aioli.

 

QUESO FRITO

Fried Manchego cheese with salad of frisee, red onions, poblano chiles on guajillo salsa

MANCHEGO - Spanish sheeps milk cheese. Aged for 60 days, typically Pasteurized

GAMBAS AL AJILLO

Fresh gulf shrimp with garlic, pequin chili and smoked paprika

SHRIMP - arrives fresh from the Gulf of Mexico with head-on and served that way also.

MUSSELS

Sautéed with tomatillos, Anaheim chills, fried polenta, feta cheese.

MUSSELS - from PEI (Prince Edward Island located in the Eastern end of Canada, above main.

TOMATILLOS - though technically not a tomato, it is round green vegetable that contributes a distinctive zest to sauce

BACALAO

salt cod, drizzled with California Olive Oil

BACALAO - cod, that has been dried after having been cured by salting. It is rehydrated in heated milk, then added to milled potatoes and seasoned with extra virgin olive oil

AKAUSHI FLAT-IRON

from Snake River Ranch with roasted Jalapeño Chimichurri

FLAT-IRON - a very tender cut of meat from the chuck primal of the animal

CHIMICHURRI - a zesty sauce made up of herbs, and vinegar. We add roasted jalapeños.

ALBONDIGAS

Beef and pork meatballs with PX and piquillo pepper sauce. NOTE: contains nuts in meatballs AND sauce

BEEF from Oak Creek Ranch in Calistoga
PORK from Heritage Pork.

PIQUILLO PEPPER SAUCE - a blend of piquillos, sherry, Nora chilies, and peanuts

FRIED JAPANESE EGGPLANT

drizzled with orange-blossom honey and malden salt.

FRYING OIL: RICE BRAN
BATTER: FLOUR, BAKING SODA, SALT

GRILLED SUMMER VEGETABLES

from the Josper Grill, served with Romesco

VEGETABLES: change with availability
ROMESCO SAUCE: savory, slightly piquant sauce containing almonds.