Have you made your reservations for a Valentine’s Day dinner in Santa Cruz yet? Here are some holiday menus from Café Sparrow, Hoffman’s, and Tortilla Flats. Remember, I posted an article on special menus at La Posta, Ma Maison, and Casablanca yesterday for your perusal. Bon Appetit!
This Aptos restaurant is offering a special seven-course (!) dinner menu on Tuesday Feb. 14. It’s $75 for three courses; call (831) 688-6238 for reservations. Choose one dish from each course:
scallop ceviche – with avocado
fresh spring roll – with thai sunflower dipping sauce
duck liver pate -fuji apple jam and garlic crouton
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baked oyster rockefeller -with creamed spinach and bearnaise
grilled portabello mushroom – spicy white bean puree and balsamic reduction
corralitos smoked chicken capellini – sundried tomato and garlic cream sauce
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duck soup – with wild rice and curried creme fraiche
cream of roasted red bell pepper – with gruyere crouton
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roasted pear salad -over baby spinach with toasted walnuts, feta & meyer lemon vinaigrette
beet salad – with hanger steak and goat cheese
grilled gulf prawn salad – over baby arugula with roasted garlic, manchego cheese and white balsamic vinaigrette
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coca cola braised pork belly – with white beans and pork jus
petrale sole roulade – crab stuffed sole with tabasco beurre blanc and spinach risotto cake
chickpea fritter – red chile slaw, minted yogurt and cous cous
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breast of duckling – over roasted celery root with chipotle cherry jam
grilled dayboat scallop – over forbidden rice with lemon beurre blanc
stuffed shell pasta – with ricotta, goat cheese, pistachio, spinach and garlic – roasted red bell pepper coulis
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chocolate espresso pots de creme
raspberry sorbet
lemon sugar cookie crunch – with fresh lemon curd and raspberry coulis
Location: 8042 Soquel Dr, Aptos
The downtown Santa Cruz restaurant is offering the choice of a $40 prix fixe dinner or a limited a la carte dinner menu. Call (831) 420-0135 for reservations. The a la carte menu includes Seafood Fettucini Alfredo, West Coast "Lobster" Roll (as seen on the Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible”), Bacon and Avocado stuffed Free-Range Chicken, and Bleu Crusted New York Strip.
Prix fixe menu: Choose soup or salad, entrée, and dessert, plus receive a glass of champagne and a “special surprise.”
Location: 1102 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz
This Soquel restaurant is actually serving a special Valentine’s menu all weekend plus Tuesday Feb. 14. Call (831) 476-1754 for more information.
Saturday selections
Scallone Cakes
Handmade abalone and scallop cakes.
Crab Enchiladas
Two enchiladas filled with fresh crab claw meat and topped with Durango sauce.
Wild Salmon
Filet of wild caught salmon, grilled and topped with a roasted red bell pepper sauce.
Blue Corn Tamales
Hand made blue corn tamales stuffed with chicken, finished with a santa fe red sauce.
Sunday selections
Scallone Cakes (see above)
Mole Manchemantales
Literally “tablecloth strainer”. Fragrant with roasted ancho, pasilla and chipotle chiles draws its sweetness from plantains, raisins, figs, mangoes and pineapple Served with pork carnitas.
Rock Shrimp Crepes
Handmade crepes filled with rock shrimp and finished with a spicy aji chile sauce.
Jalapeno Honey Ribs
Baby back pork ribs, slow baked with our very own jalapeno honey barbeque sauce.
Red Pepper Prawns
Jumbo gulf prawns grilled and topped with roasted red bell pepper sauce.
Monday selections
Scallone Cakes, Rock Shrimp Crepes, Jalapeno Honey Ribs, Red Pepper Prawns (see descriptions above) plus:
Frida’s Peanut Mole
Deep, rich peanut and chipotle mole served with chicken.
Tuesday selections
Scallone Cakes, Rock Shrimp Crepes, Jalapeno Honey Ribs, Red Pepper Prawns (see descriptions above) plus:
Mole Dama del noche
Rare costeno chiles, hints of rubarb and mission figs, served with chicken.
Location: 4616 Soquel Drive, Soquel
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