Palena's main dining room menu offers a fixed price menu priced as follows: 

Three Course: Any two savory courses plus dessert $58

Four Courses: Any three savory courses plus dessert $67

Five Courses: Any four savory courses plus dessert $76

FIRST COURSE

 

Crudo

Lime marinated Tasmanian sea trout on truffle scented parsnip puree

with shaved Burgundy truffles and crispy parsnip chips

 

Fall Pâté en Crôute

~ Venison, Prune, Hazelnuts ~

With housemade thistle mostarda, 

pickled porcini mushrooms, 

and celeriac remoulade

 

Salad of Nantucket Bay Scallops

Poached in passion fruit 

and Meyer lemon juices

With crudites, cumin, horseradish 

 and roasted beets

 

Antipasto Bergamasca 

Composed plate of :

grilled Alaskan king crab, crispy testa,

 polenta of locally milled corn, 

our own cappocolla, 

Young romaine dressed "Caesar"

 

Pheasant Consommé 

With juniper quenelles, cockscomb, 

troffiette pasta, 

and lightly smoked 

black trumpet mushroom flan

 

Mediterranean Galette 

Fresh Greek sardine filet in a flaky pastry tart

with olive stuffed piquillo pepper, artichokes, and young fennel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SECOND COURSE

 

 

 

Yukon Gold Potato Gnocchi

With a Tuscan style sauce of hare 

and olives

 

Our Own Cotecchino Sausage

With kabocha squash raviolini, almonds, quince, gingerbread croutons, 

and shaved goat cheese

 

Swiss Chard Ravioli

Ink pasta, Tuscan cuttlefish sauce

 

Chestnut Soup

With braised octopus and celery

 

 

Morue

    Our own salt cod, pan roasted

With creamy brandade risotto

Piperade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAIN COURSE

 

 

 

 Palena Mixed Grill

~ Snake River Farms Beef,

 Our Own Bacon, Alaskan King Crab Leg ~

With Castellucio lentils and braised escarole

 

Organic New York State Guinea Hen

Braised with Pomerol, Rutabaga, 

 and Foie Gras

 Brussels sprouts, pears

 

Columbia River Sturgeon

Wrapped in our own pancetta

With choucroute Parisienne, cranberry potatoes, and a mustard emulsion

 

Spanish Loup de Mer

Braised  with oregano, Meyer lemon, 

fennel, and razor clams

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Palena Cafe offers the fixed price menu as well as a more casual cafe menu. In addition, the diners can choose fixed price menu items ala carte to build a menu to their mood and style.

CAFE MENU

 

The Palena Cheeseburger -$10-

On our house-baked sesame bun, seasonal pickles

 

Café Salad -$10-

Organic greens and lettuces with hazelnuts and Tuscan honey vinaigrette

 

Palena Fries - $10-

Shoestring and dauphine potatoes, onion rings, and lemons

- with zippy mayonnaise

 

Roasted Half Chicken - $13-

 

Pappardelle ai Funghi e Ventrigli Nostrano -$12-

Ribbon noodles with house cured duck gizzards, 

wild mushrooms, and thyme

 

Minestrone Palenese-$10-

Soup of Italian peas and greens with shaved reggiano

 

'na Piccolo Bollito-$16-

House corned beef, veal tongue, and a coddled organic duck egg

With fingerling potatoes, cippolini, and a green herb sauce

 

Grilled Line Caught Atlantic Triggerfish -$16-

With cauliflower and honshiimeji mushroom stew, 

devilled egg

 

Autumn Terrine -$18-

Foie Gras, Oxtail, Celeriac

With a salad of carrots, celery, pine nuts and raisins

 

 

Selection of Perfectly Matured Cheeses -$12-

With Tyrolean almond bread

 

 

 

 

 

SWEETS  

 

$9

 

Banana Chocolate Cream Pie

Exotic caramel sauce

 

Warm German Style Apple Cake

With cider stewed walnuts and cinnamon ice cream

 

Cranberry Sorbet 

With bourbon pumpkin sauce and a pecan tartlet

 

Chocolate and Hazelnut Cake

Espresso sauce

 

Chestnut and Pear Tart

Chocolate sorbet red wine sauce

 

Poppy Seed Orange Gelato

Salad of various orange segments

 Madeleine, Stollen

 

Sicilian Ricotta Pie

Pistachio "confezione", wine braised pears, gelato

 

A Plate of Caramels, Cookies and Nougat