Sharing Love and Funds This VDay

Whether you'll be with friends, your partner, or pampering yourself, we're excited to celebrate love with some of our favorite local foods.

Start with a soufflé featuring goat cheese from Stepladder Creamery, a farm, and dairy near Paso Robles. With a rich and creamy texture, this starter is stabilized with whole-grain flour and balanced with a touch of lemon juice.

Follow with a cup of French onion soup with caramelized onions, chicken stock, and sherry wine, topped with a Gruyère toast.

Our gluten-free starter is sautéed delicata squash agrodolce with raisins. Honey and vinegar make up a sweet and tart dressing, and crunchy pumpkin seeds add texture to the soft squash.

Of course, you'll still need to eat your greens! We've put together a classic salad with mixed greens, spring strawberries, blueberries, toasted pecans, and a side of house balsamic vinegar.

We practice whole animal butchery and work with one cow at a time, so there are only so many steaks available. We dry-age in house. The steak is kept whole with fat cap intact and left on a rack in our fridge with the fan running. Constant airflow dries the meat, and its internal enzymes break down the fibers, naturally creating a robust flavor and tender consistency. The longer the beef is left to dry age, the more concentrated the flavor. We have been drying these steaks for more than four months. As a side, we smash fingerling potatoes with buttermilk and cream, folding in chives and seasoning. We serve with grilled asparagus and pan sauce.

For veggie lovers, we grill two marinated portobello mushrooms and serve with the delicious potatoes and asparagus. 

For dessert, we're serving a gluten-free chocolate budino. To serve warm, heat this pudding in the microwave. We include whipped cream, caramel sauce, and toasted sweetened almonds and hazelnuts as toppings.

Craving a fruitier finish to your meal? Try seasonal berries with zabaglione, a sauce of custardy egg yolks sweetened with marsala wine and folded into whipped cream

5% of the proceeds of this meal are being donated to Oakland schools!