Jeff Cerciello, the longtime main man of Thomas Keller’s dining group, started serving lunch yesterday at his new Brentwood restaurant FarmShop. We have the menu below, which tempts us with a pastrami sandwich with braised kale, a warm dungeness crab salad with sun chokes, and buttermilk panna cotta with kiwis, pistachios, and orange for dessert, even if a nineteen dollar steak sandwich makes Earl’s Gourmet Grub’s five-bites-and-they’re-gone offerings suddenly look affordable. Dinner is still hingng on approval for a beer and wine license, but hopes are high it’s coming soon. Once it does, Cerciello plans to revisit a tradition from his Ad Hoc days with a buttermilk fried chicken night. Should save his fans a looong drive to Yountville. While you wait for dinner to be on, check out FarmShop’s lunch menu*.
*Our apologies, an earlier version of this post contained a menu that is not available at FarmShop, the result of pasting text from a PDF file. Below is the correct menu.
FarmShop Lunch menu
STARTERS
Marinated Olives
preserved orange 4.5
County Line Baby Lettuces
garden herbs & red wine vinaigrette 9
Crispy Artichokes
burrata cheese, winter squash & pepitas 13.5
Butternut Squash Soup
with mushroom conserva 9
Fried Weiser Farm Potatoes
house-made ketchup, wild herbs & aioli 10.5
SALADS
Poached Chicken
little gems lettuce, celery root remoulade, soft-boiled egg & radishes 16
Warm Dungeness Crab
butter lettuce, sunchokes, curly mustard greens & citrus vinaigrette 19.5
Farm Egg Salad
county line mixed greens, heirloom beets & brioche toast 14.5
Market Vegetable Salad
nicoise olives, redwood hill goat’s cheese & pistachio salsa verde 14
SANDWICHES
Pastrami
spring hill cheddar, braised kale & coleslaw on artisan wheat bread 16
Fresh & Smoked Salmon Tartine
toasted rye bread, caper berries, pickled vegetables & butter lettuce 17.5
Steak Sandwich & Fries
prime rib, fresh horseradish cream, arugula & wild mushrooms 19.5
Albacore Tuna Salad
on sourdough with olive tapenade, carrot, cabbage & raisin salad 14.5
DESSERTS
Buttermilk Panna Cotta with kiwis, pistachio & orange 7
Apple Galette
with toasted walnuts & lemon creme fraiche 7
Bread Pudding candied hazelnuts, pear & vanilla anglaise 7
Kids
Grilled Cheese
or
Chicken Breast
served grilled with french fries or green
salad….. 7.5
