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The menu

Written by the market, edited by fire

One menu, served to every table. It changes as the farms decide — what follows is the edition on the pass this week.

High summer · Edition No. 41

The tasting menu

Served July 8 — August 30 · $165 per guest

Eight courses from the height of the Willamette Valley market — written in the morning, cooked over fire at night. The menu below is the current edition; a line or two changes as the farms decide.


  1. Course I

    Bites from the garden

    Sungold tomato & whipped fava on rye tuile · smoked trout, crème fraîche, pickled mustard seed · nasturtium and its own leaf

    — three small things, eaten in two bites

  2. Course II

    Charred brassicas

    Sprouting broccoli grilled over almond wood, fermented mustard-green butter, toasted almond, mustard flower

    — the namesake course — it never leaves the menu, only changes its brassica

  3. Course III

    Green-lip mussels

    Green-lipped mussels steamed in green-garlic broth, sea beans, lovage oil, grilled potato bread for the liquor

  4. Course IV

    Bread & butter

    Potato sourdough from a seven-year starter, cultured butter churned in-house, wildflower honey from the roof

    — served as its own course, on purpose

  5. Course V

    Halibut

    Line-caught halibut poached in brown butter, summer squash, verjus beurre blanc, fennel pollen

  6. Course VI

    Duck

    Dry-aged duck breast roasted on the crown, charred cherries, red mustard leaf, a jus spiced like the fire smells

  7. Course VII

    Cucumber & elderflower

    Cucumber granita, elderflower cream, sheep's-milk yogurt, olive-oil shortbread crumb

    — the cold breath before dessert

  8. Course VIII

    Burnt honey

    Burnt-honey ice cream, chamomile shortbread, marionberries barely warmed, bee pollen


To finish — pour-over coffee from a single roaster, herbal infusions from the garden, and mignardises from the pastry bench.

Pairings

  • Classic pairing $95

    Six pours matched course by course — grower sparkling to close-of-menu sweet wine, leaning on the cellar's small producers.

  • Reserve pairing $165

    The same six moments poured from the top shelf of the cellar — older vintages, rarer bins, slightly larger stories.

  • Zero-proof pairing $60

    House ferments, pressed juices, teas, and sodas built with the same seasonal logic as the wine list. Not an afterthought.

For the table

  • Caviar service +$85

    Fictional-farm osetra, warm potato blini, cultured cream — for the table

  • Cheese course +$28

    Sheep's-milk tomme, rhubarb mostarda, walnut bread — slotted before dessert


Tell us about allergies and aversions when you book — with notice we can write around most of them, including a fully vegetarian edition. A 20% service charge, shared with the whole team, is added to every check.

The anteroom bar at night — a candle flickering in a red glass jar on the counter, backlit bottle shelves glowing behind
The anteroom — walk-in only, from five o'clock

À la carte · no reservation

The anteroom

Eleven stools and two low tables in front of the dining room. Wine by the glass, the full cellar, and a short menu that borrows the kitchen's best tricks. Five to eleven, Wednesday through Saturday.


  • Wood-roasted almonds 9

    rosemary, smoked salt

  • Marinated olives 9

    orange peel, bay, fennel seed

  • Potato sourdough & cultured butter 8

    the dining-room bread, by the half loaf

  • Oysters on the half shell 27

    verjus mignonette, half dozen

  • Green-lip mussels 24

    green-garlic butter, grilled bread

  • Chicken-liver mousse 19

    wildflower honey, rye crisps

  • The bar burger 26

    dry-aged trim, taleggio, onion jam — a few each night, then it's gone

  • Chamomile shortbread & burnt-honey ice cream 14

    dessert without the ceremony


Prices in dollars. The burger really does run out — that part of the fiction is realistic.

Reservations

Taken by the menu?

The current edition runs through late August. The book opens three weeks out, Wednesday to Saturday.

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