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SAMPLE CAFE MENU, MARCH 2024

Spring vegetable salad with fines herbes dressing and Riverdog Farm egg, $17
Blood orange, Ruby grapefruit, and Little Gems lettuce with citrus vinaigrette, $18
Chanterelle and cannellini bean crostini with rocket-fennel salad and Parmesan, $23
Star Route Farms garden lettuces with Banyuls vinaigrette, $12
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces, $18
Celery root soup with fried rosemary and pimentón, $12

Mezzi rigatoni with asparagus, crème fraîche, black pepper, and mint, $28
Bouillabaisse à la Panisse: halibut and shellfish soup cooked in the fireplace with garlic croûton and aïoli, $40
Chicken al mattone with butternut squash purée, romanesco, radicchio, and sage, $31
Grilled pork loin with shoestring potatoes, greens, carrots, and mustard-caper sauce, $35
Pizza with broccoli di ciccio, roasted red onions, lemon, and ricotta salata, $26
Pizza with tomato sauce, black olives, bacon, and marjoram, $27

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

Pink Lady apple-sour cherry galette with vanilla ice cream, $14
Blood orange and cardamom upside-down cake with crème chantilly, $14
Meyer lemon pot de crème with huckleberries and a gingersnap cookie, $14
Almond toffee-chocolate chip and chocolate ice creams with caramel sauce, $14
Churchill-Brenneis Orchard Page mandarins and Flying Disc Ranch dates, $14

Updated March 23, 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