Pick Your Poison
08 Apr 2022Today’s prompt: “Write the menu for a restaurant – including names for dishes and descriptions of flavors and ingredients. Then rewrite it for the delivery/to-go menu. The delivery menu must be half as long, but just as tantalizing.”
Cafe Veleno
Insalata
House Salad
Mixed greens – butter lettuce, arugula, baby spinach, and henbane leaves – topped with garlicky croutons, chopped fresh tomatoes, grated carrots, sliced radishes, pickled red onion slices, and diced water hemlock. Dressed with our signature lemon-oregano vinaigrette.
Pasta
Wild Mushroom Ravioli
Morel, chanterelle, and amanita phalloides mushrooms, beautifully sauteed and chopped fine, make the perfect filling for this classic pasta dish.
Spaghetti Bolognese
Our twist on the classic! A robust tomato sauce with grass-fed beef, pancetta, and local carrots and celery served over freshly made pasta, finished with a drizzle of antifreeze.
Secondo
Chicken Piccata
Tender butterflied chicken breast lightly fried and served in a pan sauce with lemon juice, shallots, capers, and belladonna berries and decorated with thinly sliced lemon.
Osso Buco
Braised lamb shank slow-roasted with parsnips, celeriac, leeks and tomatoes. Served over a bed of rat poison.
Cafe Veleno
House Salad
Butter lettuce, arugula, baby spinach, henbane leaves, tomatoes, carrot, radishes, pickled red onion, water hemlock, croutons, lemon-oregano vinaigrette.
Wild Mushroom Ravioli
Morel, chanterelle, amanita phalloides.
Spaghetti Bolognese
Local tomatoes, carrots and celery. Grass-fed beef. Drizzle of antifreeze.
Chicken Piccata
Butterflied chicken, lemon, shallot, capers, belladonna berries.
Osso Buco
Braised lamb shank, parsnip, celeriac, leek, tomatoes, rat poison.
You know, you could have eaten somewhere else.