Dinner Menu April 2015 Final copy


Pagliacci’s Dinner
The Previews
All salads & appetizers served with our fresh focaccia bread baked in olive oil
Men Who Stare at Goat Cheese
Minnesota Fats
A selection of Moon Struck Cheeses from Salt Spring
Island & pepper herbed goat cheese
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of
cheese.” - G.K. Chesterton
14
Crispy fontina & mozzarella cheese & basmati rice balls
with tomato sauce
Try these or we'll break your thumbs
7 / 10
Edgar Allen Poe’s Crab Cakes
Three Canadian Dungeness & Rock crab cakes
with lemon aioli
“This is it, & nothing more.” His favourite recipe
11
Bill Murray’s Meatballs
Three large meatballs served with marinara & parmesan
“Attention, here's an update on tonight's dinner... It was veal.
I repeat, veal. The winner of tonight’s mystery meat contest is
Jeffrey, who guessed, 'some kind of beef'.”
9
A Moveable Feast
3 each or all four for 10
Hummus - Bruschetta - Pesto - Marinara
Perfect dips with our famous fresh baked focaccia bread
“Love is good, but tastes better with bread”
Dinner Salads
Prince of Tides
Das Goat
Seared scallops, portobello mushrooms, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes & pancetta bacon, tossed
with fresh spinach in a pesto vinaigrette
“Frankly, Scallop, I don’t give a clam.”
14.5 / 18
Das Salad, spinach, goat cheese, fresh pear, walnuts,
sun-dried cranberries
with a raspberry vinaigrette
Created by our Kitchen Kapitan, Das Sukh
12 / 15
Salmon Chanted Evening
Pan seared Wild Sockeye Salmon, marinated artichokes,
avocado, capers, roasted red peppers & red onion on
mixed greens with a creamy lemon basil dressing
You can substitute Cajun chicken breast instead of
salmon
“Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.”
13.5 / 17
Pagliacci’s Salad
Leaf lettuce, carrots, garbanzos, green onion, egg,
feta cheese, olives & tomato
11 / 14
Add Prawns three for 6, six for 10
Add Scallops three for 7, six for 12
Marco Pollo Grilled Chicken
Grilled chicken breast, romaine lettuce, artichokes, black
olives, red onion, tomato, carrots, parmesan
with a pesto vinaigrette dressing
The original recipe brought back from 12th Century China,
but fresher.
12 / 15
Sid Caesar
Romaine lettuce, egg, croutons & parmesan
with our homemade caesar dressing
“We have come to eat Caesar, not to bury him.”
12
Add Single Grilled Chicken Breast 4
Add Baby Shrimp 4
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Main Attractions
The Steaks
AAA Angus New York Cut 5 oz - 18 /10 oz - 25
Sides
Prawns Three for 6, Six for 10 - Menu pasta 6.5 - Vegetables of the Night 4.5
Risotto Bianco 4.5 - Fettuccine with garlic, parmesan & olive oil 4.5 - - Side Show Salad 3.5
The Damon Runyon
The Raging Bull
The Grubsteak
Kentucky Bourbon marinade
with fresh mushrooms & garlic
“The feeling is pari-mutuel, I’m insured.”
Peppercorn sauce
with a touch of cream
Jake LaMotta would not have thrown
this one against the wall.
Blue cheese, garlic, capers
& butter sauce
H.G. Wells’ the Invisible Man said,
“A bath & a tenderloin steak, those are
the high points of a man’s life.”
Seafood
I’ll Have What She’s
Having
Prawns Al Capone
A Fish Called
Wanda
Shell on butterfly jumbo prawns
Chicago style, sautéed in butter,
white wine & garlic
with Vegetables of the Night &
fettuccine with garlic, parmesan &
olive oil or risotto bianco
“I don’t even know what street
Canada is on.” - Al Capone
eight 20 - five 15
Market fish, clams, mussels, prawns,
scallops & king crab legs
in a light seafood marinara
It’s that good, we’re not faking.
28
Wild Pacific Sockeye Salmon
pan seared,
white wine caper reduction
with Vegetables of the Night
A tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge,
and seafood
24
Free Range Chicken & Milk-fed Veal
Your Choice Milk-fed Veal or Free Range Chicken Suprême 25
with Vegetables of the Night & fettuccine with garlic, parmesan & olive oil or risotto bianco
The Thin Man
Night of the Hunter
Ralph Kramden
Marsala cream sauce & mushrooms
“Waiter, will you serve the nuts?
I mean,
will you serve the guests the nuts?”
- Myrna Loy as Nora Charles
“Whole Beast” Pancetta Bacon,
green peas & thyme
in a white wine butter sauce
“I have two acting styles: with and
without a horse.” - Robert Mitchum
Parmigiana baked with tomato
sauce, mozzarella & parmesan
Chef of the Future Special for the
Raccoon Lodge Annual Dance & Bowl
Dinner.
Side Show Salads
add to any main attraction or pasta 3.5 or al la carte 7.5
Four house dressings: Parmesan, Yogurt-Dill, Caesar & Maple Balsamic Vinaigrette
Greenleaf
Caesar
Spinach
Leaf lettuce, carrots, garbanzos,
green onion, tomato & olive
Romaine lettuce, egg, croutons &
parmesan cheese
spinach, carrots, red onion,
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croutons & a cherry tomato
Pastas
With fresh homemade focaccia - Gluten free pasta may be substituted upon request
“It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” - Federico Fellini
Want more? Consider a side salad add 3.5
Seafood Pasta
Sophia
Canadian Dungeness & Rock crab, baby shrimp & pine nuts
in a white wine cream sauce topped with smoked salmon on egg fettuccine
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”-Sophia Loren
16 / 20
The Shell Game
Scallops, prosciutto, fresh spinach & crushed chilies in olive oil & garlic on linguine
topped with parmesan
“We fix it, you can’t lose.”
16 / 20
The Prawn Broker
Jumbo prawns in coconut milk, cashew curry sauce with mango chutney &
a touch of cream on a bed of spinach fettuccine
If you prefer, substitute chicken for prawns
16 / 20
Salmon Sing in the Street
Wild Sockeye Salmon, linguine, spinach, fresh parsley, red onions
& cherry tomatoes with lemon, white wine & olive oil
“I'll love you till China & Africa meet & the river jumps over the mountain & the salmon sing in the street.” - W. H. Auden
15.5 / 19.5
The Big Easy
Jumbo prawns, chicken, Italian sausage, bell peppers & mushrooms
in a spicy cajun marinara sauce on penne with parmesan
If you want it mild, ask your server
This one will have you Barkin.
14 / 18
Mr. Roberts
Seafood lasagna loaded with Canadian Dungeness & Rock crab, baby shrimp &
mozzarella served with tomato sauce
We’re Fonda this dish
16.5
more pastas on the next page
Tax not included - please let us know about any allergies
Meat Pasta
Frank
Chicken & sun-dried tomato in a pesto rosé tossed with penne, fresh herbs & parmesan
“To be is to do.”—Socrates. “To do is to be.”—Sartre “Do be do be do.”—Sinatra
14 / 18
Hemingway Short Story
Tortellini stuffed with beef, parmesan, cottage & mozzarella cheeses
in a bacon cream sauce topped with green onions & parmesan
“It’ll make the earth move for you.”
14 / 18
The Cabinet of Dr. Cappelletti
Tortellini stuffed with beef, parmesan, cottage & mozzarella cheeses tossed in our tomato sauce
with mushrooms, onions & red wine, mozzarella & parmesan baked on top
Hypnotizing
14 / 18
Bicycle Thief
Italian sausage, mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, green onion & fontina cheese, tossed with linguine
in a light garlic chicken broth. Comes with or without tomato sauce – your choice
12.5 / 16.5
Dempsey’s Lasagna
Beef, mushrooms, ricotta & mozzarella cheeses with tomato sauce between layers of fresh pasta
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” - Jack Dempsey
16.5
Meat John Doe
Spicy meatballs & linguine in tomato sauce with parmesan
“If you have forgotten who you are and don’t understand the menu... order this, it's spaghetti & meatballs.”
11.5 / 15.5
Vegetarian Pasta
Super Mario 1-Up Mushroom Ravioli
Roasted mushroom ravioli with tomatoes, spinach, chilli flakes, olive oil & parmesan
Worth dying & coming back to life for
15 / 19
Ravioli Paradiso
Spinach & ricotta ravioli tossed with sun-dried tomatoes, walnuts & gorgonzola (blue cheese) purple sauce
15 / 19
Manhattan Transfer
Fresh basil pesto, pine nuts, sun-dried tomatoes, sautéed mushrooms & garlic topped
with fontina cheese on egg fettuccine
14 / 18
My Secret Garden
Fresh tomatoes & mushrooms marinated in
red wine vinegar, olive oil, garlic & fresh basil on linguine, topped with fontina cheese
Vegetarian erotica
11.5 / 15.5
Tax not included - please let us know about any allergies