SAMPLE CAFE MENU, MAY 2025
Wood oven-roasted cauliflower and marinated beets with turmeric, lime, and cilantro yogurt, $19
Petit aïoli with spring vegetables, basil, and green garlic mayonnaise, $20
Wild rocket and fennel salad with blood oranges, toasted hazelnuts, and sherry vinaigrette, $19
Star Route Farms garden lettuces with Banyuls vinaigrette, $12
Baked Andante Dairy goat cheese with garden lettuces, $19
Butter bean and wild nettle soup with lemon and thyme, $12
Mezze rigatoni with asparagus, cream, black pepper, mint, and pecorino, $30
Northern halibut with snap peas, spinach, Tokyo turnips, and ginger beurre blanc, $44
Chicken braised with white wine and sage; with polenta verde, carrots, and fava bean–spring onion salsa, $34
Grilled pork loin with shoestring potatoes, garlicky greens, and mustard sauce, $35
Pizza with potato, leeks, fried rosemary, and Meyer lemon, $29
Pizza with tomato sauce, spicy sausage, black olives, and marjoram, $30
Side orders: A plate of olives or anchovies, $7 each
Rhubarb galette with vanilla ice cream, $15
Meyer lemon posset with blueberries, huckleberries, and gingersnaps $15
Tangerine-passionfruit sherbet meringata with strawberries and candied kumquats, $15
Vanilla cream puff with almond praline and bittersweet chocolate sauce, $15
A bowl of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard Pixie tangerines and Frog Hollow Farm cherries, $15
Updated May 1, 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