One half-dozen oysters with fresh horseradish
and champagne mignonette   $14
Ceviche of halibut with ruby grapefruit, radish sprouts, chilies and mint   11
Simple salad of mesclun greens with sherry-mustard seed vinaigrette   8
Boston lettuce salad with apples, cheddar cheese, spiced pecans
and cider vinaigrette  10
Chilled galia melon soup with basil and pickled shrimp  7
Rendezvous charcuterie of the week   11
Selection of farmhouse cheeses: one cheese:  8   two:  10  three:  12

Vegetable antipasto with roasted eggplant purée   11
Swiss chard dolmas with toasted pine nut sauce  9
Seared sea scallops with Moroccan spices, rhubarb, fennel + preserved lemon salad  12
Spicy Rhode Island squid with garlic, arroz negro and Spanish chorizo  10
Potato gnocchi with foraged mushrooms, fava beans, spinach and piave cheese  13
Grilled Portuguese sardines with a meyer lemon-fennel vinaigrette  11
Turkish pizza:  roasted eggplant purée, crumbled feta, black olive, wild marjoram and maras pepper  11

entrées
Spicy stew of cod and mussels with saffron rice  24
Grilled swordfish with braised artichokes and eggplant caponata  26
"Bollito misto" with braised spring vegetables and creamy truffled polenta  21
Braised pork and veal meatballs with toasted orecchiette, maitakes and piave cheese 24
Steak-Frites: grilled peppered skirt steak with portabella mushroooms, roasted garlic butter and french fries  25
Rendezvous cheeseburger with potato salad and homemade pickles  16

dessert
Lemon-buttermilk pudding with huckleberry sauce   7
Cherry-rhubarb crostada with honey-lavender ice cream  8
Espresso semi-freddo with chocolate sauce and salted almond brittle  7
Mixed summer berry shortcake with sweetened cream  8
Warm chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and cinnamon cream   8