Top New York Chef to Visit Oliveto – Menu Update for Tuesday, August 20th Dinner

Menu Update

Top NY Chef to Visit Oliveto

for a one-night-only dinner

Tuesday, August 20th

See mega-bonus below

In a pre-visit conversation between New York’s Chef Justin Smillie (Upland Restaurant) and Oliveto’s Chef Brian Griffith, a brief preliminary menu was laid out to give prospective diners a general idea of the prix fixe dinner to be served August 20th. Brian gave Justin a picture of which produce stands out in this, the peak of our summer season, from some of the best of our local farmers. Justin chose general items that excited him, and the two chefs sketched out the menu that follows:

Local chicories, anchovy, crispy bread, and hard cheese

Caramelized sweet rice (possibly with seafood)

Roasted heirloom tomatoes and herbs

And…Justin’s famous duck, wood-fired, probably breast and sausage, with nectarines

Favas, sprouted lentils, charred red onions, summer squash

Dessert tbd

$70 prix fixe

This menu will be offered alongside our regular à la carte menu, but we’ll ask that those ordering Justin’s prix fixe meal make it an order for the whole table. We will provide substitutions for vegetarians.

Mega Bonus—Randall Grahm

In the spirit of properly presenting California, we asked Randall Grahm, Bonny Doon Winery, for something really special for the dinner on the 20th. For several years he’s been pursuing a true California wine, not imitative of European wines. This is immensely complicated, but that’s Randall. His extraordinary effort is well described in this New Yorker article from last year. So for our dinner, we’ll serve his 2017 Grenache Blanc/Gris from Popelouchum, which Randall thinks “is pretty exemplary,” and is in very limited supply. As a 13-year-old first-time visitor from Boston yelled out my sun roof as we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge, “This is historical!” Randall is also finding us his most dramatic Cigare Volant, his exceptional Rhône, to complement the dinner.

This is one night only, reservations still available after 8 PM

Reserve now on line or call: 510 547-5356

Oliveto.com

Oliveto and Community Grains Pizza Party – Sunday, August 18th, 6-9 pm

Oliveto and Community Grains Pizza Party—

Sunday, August 18th, 6-9 pm

Justin Smillie, Upland Restaurant, NYC

Community Grains has been coming up with some terrific flour, and chefs and bakers on both coasts have been making exciting food with it. For example, our guest chef, Justin Smillie’s whole-grain pizza at Upland in New York is extraordinary. So as part of his visit with us, he suggested a pizza party.

It’ll be in the café.
There will be live music
by Trio Sin Lio
It’ll be big fun.

We’ll serve Justin’s pizza and some of our own. Plus lots of other food.

For the past decade, Community Grains has been working to develop a better complete grain system. Based on the values of nutrient-rich soil, advanced whole milling, and radical transparency in our supply chain, we’ve developed whole grain wheat flours that are different from anything else that’s commercially available. By testing and improving over several years, we’ve arrived at the point where our Patwin variety x-fine wheat flour can compete head on with white flour for texture and mouth-feel, with enormous upsides in nutrition and taste, while at the some time growing a better, soil-based local grain economy.