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SAMPLE CAFE MENU, APRIL 2024

Little Gems lettuce with cucumbers, radishes, and avocado-basil dressing, $18
Fennel, Cara Cara orange, and grapefruit salad with green olives and citrus vinaigrette, $18
Moroccan-spiced chickpea purée with gingery beets, garlic toasts, mint, and feta, $18
Star Route Farms garden lettuces with Banyuls vinaigrette, $12
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces, $18
Carrot soup with pimentón and crispy sage, $12

Tagliatelle pasta with asparagus, spring onions, gremolata, and Parmesan, $31
Chermoula-marinated halibut with saffron potatoes, snap peas, and preserved lemon yogurt, $43
Grilled Sonoma County duck breast with shoestring potatoes, Tokyo turnips, and tapenade, $38
Red-wine braised lamb with Red Flint polenta, carrots, kale, and fava bean relish, $39
Pizza with tomato sauce, Monterey Bay squid, marjoram, and aïoli, $28
Pizza di Michele with prosciutto, goat cheese, and rosemary, $29

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

Rhubarb galette with vanilla ice cream, $14
Vanilla cream puff with bittersweet chocolate sauce and crème chantilly, $14
Strawberry ice cream with strawberries and an almond ricciarelli, $14
Blood orange sherbet meringata with Pixie tangerines and candied kumquats, $14
Churchill-Brenneis Orchard Pixie tangerines, $9

Updated April 20, 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 $35/bottle, $55/magnum

Website artwork by Patricia Curtan.

1517 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94705