Grub Street

In what might be the most blatant act of Haute Barnyard marketing yet, Tocqueville has introduced a new Greemmarket menu (paired with “organic, sustainable, or biodynamic” wines, naturally), and when you buy it, you get your very own Greenmarket bag. Because, after being inspired by the asparagus salad, wild-ramp-and-English-pea risotto, and salmon in lovage broth, you are bound to feel impelled to run down to the market and start buying your own local vegetables in short order. And it wouldn’t do to use disposable plastic bags for a job like that! The menu begins tomorrow for both lunch ($36) and dinner ($48); it's $30 extra for the wine pairing. Dirt to sprinkle on your shoes is optional.

Tocqueville Greenmarket Menu

Lunch 36.
Dinner 48.
Wine pairing 30.

GREEN ASPARAGUS SALAD
soft poached country farm egg, chive vinaigrette
2007 Grun, Bauer, Donauland
or
OPEN FACED RABBIT &
RICOTTA RAVIOLI
cranberry beans, wild garlic and parsley jus
2007 Canaiuolo Rose Montenidoli

WILD RAMP AND ENGLISH PEA RISOTTO
wild ramp gremolata
2004 Vernaccia di San Gimignano Tradizionale Montenidoli
or
SLOWLY COOKED HOT SMOKED SALMON
grilled spring garlic, confit fingerling potatoes and lovage broth
2006 Cheverny Domaine du Moulin Herve Villemade

AGED CATO FARMS RANSOM BLUE CHEESE
honeycomb and tomato jam
or
RHUBARB STRUDEL
lemon and thyme ice cream
2005 Sylvaner Auslese Familie Bauer