appetizers
One half-dozen oysters with fresh horseradish
and champagne mignonnette   $14
Simple salad of mesclun greens with sherry-mustard seed vinaigrette   8
Boston lettuce salad with apples, cheddar cheese, spiced pecans
and cider vinaigrette  10
Salad of chilled octopus, roasted peppers, fennel, lovage, black olive & smoked paprika  10
Rendezvous charcuterie of the week   9
Selection of farmhouse cheeses: one cheese:  8   two:  10  three:  12

Summer vegetable antipasto with roasted eggplant purée   11
Spicy sautéed Rhode Island squid with maras pepper, borlotti beans, garlic and arugula  11
Seared sea scallops with zhoug and a small fava bean salad  12
Potato gnocchi with sautéed morels and maitake, black truffle & piave cheese  13
- Vegetarian gnocchi is also always available -
Grilled Portuguese sardines with meyer lemon and fried parsley  11
Cool cucumber soup with yogurt, mint and radishes  8

entrées

Sautéed bluefish with charmoula, spicy cucumber salad and gingery jasmine rice  24
Grilled swordfish with fennel-pepper confit and anchovy vinaigrette  26
Summer chowder of striped bass and littlenecks with corn, basil & cherry tomatoes  26
Summer vegetable bollito misto with fava beans, maitake mushrooms with creamy polenta and black truffle  21
Roast chicken with chanterelles, corn and green beans   23
Smoke-roasted pork tenderloin with new potato salad and summer pickles   25
Gascon style duck 3 ways:  grilled breast, confit leg and garlic sausage   26
Grilled Black Angus sirloin with berber spices, roasted tomatoes, corn purée and harissa  28

dessert
Lemon-buttermilk pudding with huckleberry sauce   7
Polenta cake with summer berries compote and rosemary ice cream  8
Homemade cookies and ice cream  7
Warm chocolate cake with chocolate sauce and cinnamon cream   8