Sunday Prix Fixe -- August sample menu -- three courses:  $38

Please note: this entire menu is also available à la carte for those who prefer

choice of:

Simple salad of mesclun greens with sherry-mustard vinaigrette
Boston lettuce salad with apples, cheddar cheese, spiced pecans and cider vinaigrette
Chilled octopus salad with roasted peppers, fennel, black olive, lovage and smoked paprika
Tuna ceviche with cucumber, lime and cilantro
One perfect cheese with nuts and fruit

Summer vegetable antipasto with roasted eggplant purée
Hot-salted shrimp with an orange and watercress salad
Spicy bluefish cakes with a cool cucumber salad
Grilled Portuguese sardines with fried capers and parsley

choice of:
Summer fried fish combo with potato salad, pickles and spicy aiöli
Grilled swordfish with fennel-pepper confit and anchovy vinaigrette
Summer vegetable bollito misto with morels, fava beans and truffled polenta
Rendezvous roast chicken with Moroccan spices
Braised pork and veal meatballs with toasted orrecchiette, tuscan kale and piave cheese
Steak frites:  peppered sirloin with french fries and mesclun salad ($4 extra)

choice of:

Lemon-buttermilk pudding with huckleberry sauce
Polenta cake with summer berries and rosemary ice cream
Homemade cookies and ice cream
Warm chocolate cake with cinnamon cream

wine specials:  $ 19 carafe      $ 7 glass

Domaine La Haute Févrie - Muscadet Sèvre et Maine, France - Melon de Bourgogne 2005
Fresh and clean, light citrus fruit and quince, minerality, focused and expressive finish.

Ludovicus - Terra Alta, Spain - Garnacha, Tempranillo, Syrah & Cabernet Sauvignon 2005
Red and black cherries, fresh acid, light minerals, fun and innovative