Menu for New Year’s Eve at Oliveto
December 31, 2011
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Panini tartufati
White truffle mortared with sweet butter on house-made brioche
**Barnaut champagne NV
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Chicories with candied walnuts, Castelmagno cheese, and aceto balsamico
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Vellutata of winter squash with brown butter and amaretti cookies
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Crudo of bigeye tuna
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Risotto milanese
**Verdicchio di Castelli di Jesi, “Salmarino,” Maroti Campi, Marche 2008
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(for late seating add:)
Pan-roasted scallops with cauliflower two ways and caviar spumante
**Trebbiano d’Abruzzo, Valentini 2003
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Ossobuco alla milanese
**Rosso di Montalcino, “Corte Pavone,” Loacker 2008
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Black sea bass, creamed stinging nettles, and Yellow Finn potatoes
**Chardonnay, Fratelli Barale, Piedmont 2010
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Bittersweet chocolate, cocoa nib, and fior di latte ice cream bombe with July-brandied sour cherries and a gilt chocolate collar
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Warm Meyer lemon budino, blood orange sherbet, kumquat compȏte, and citrus lace tuile composition
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EARLY SEATING
5:00 to 6:30
Panini tartufati and three courses:
$85
wine paring $45
LATE SEATING
7:30 to 10:00
Panini tartufati and four courses (scallops course added)
$100
wine pairing $55