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August Restaurant Menu


301 Tchoupitoulas St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-299-9777
www.restaurantaugust.com


Dinner Cold Appetizers

Organic greens with pumpkin seed brittle, Point Reyes blue cheese and pumpkin seed oil vinaigrette  $8.00 
 
Foie gras prepared three ways  $18.00 
 
Salad of heirloom beets crab meat, Allan Benton?s cherry wood bacon, mustard greens and quail eggs with black-eyed pea croutons  $10.00 
 
Local vegetable "chop salad" with champagne vinaigrette, fresh herbs, and fennel  $10.00 
 
Chilled cucumber and buttermilk soup with house smoked wild-salmon and crabmeat  $12.00 
 

Dinner Warm Appetizers

Hand-made potato gnocchi tossed with blue crab and winter truffle  $12.00 
 
P&J Oysters crispy fried with Louisiana caviar ?ranch dressing,? pepper seared with country ham and truffle spoon bread, horseradish crusted  $13.00 
 
Pan-fried veal sweetbreads with garlic, wild mushrooms, and purple plums  $11.00 
 
Honey Island chanterelle and wild onion tarte with lacquered Berkshire pork ?cracklin? salad  $14.00 
 

Dinner Fish

Crispy-seared lane snapper with silver queen corn and local crabmeat  $32.00 
 
Wild Copper River king salmon olive oil poached, tartar and pan-roasted  $30.00 
 
Herb-crusted lemonfish with confit tomato, artichokes and chorizo  $27.00 
 

Dinner Fowl

Mayhaw-glazed bobwhite quail with baby bok choy, rice vermicelli and lemongrass broth  $29.00 
 
Sugar and spice duckling with Anson Mills grits, roasted duck foie gras and quince  $28.00 
 
Whole roasted Joe Dobie?s chicken with local vegetables and black trumpets for two persons  $46.00 
 

Dinner Meat and Game

USDA prime filet of beef with greens, porcini and smoked marrow  $36.00 
 
Jim McCloud's rabbit cooked two ways over artichokes barigoule and squash blossoms  $30.00 
 
Slow-cooked Berkshire pork belly and butter-poached Maine lobster with black truffles and pommes maxime  $35.00 
 

Lunch Appetizers

Organic greens with pumpkin seed brittle, Point Reyes blue cheese and pumpkin seed oil vinaigrette  $7.00 
 
Crispy fried buster crabs with heirloom tomatoes, and Allan Benton?s bacon  $12.00 
 
Goat cheese stuffed Turkish figs wrapped in country ham with pine nuts and honey  $9.00 
 
"Panbagnato" and avocado salad with Cherokee-purple tomato gazpacho and local crabmeat  $10.00 
 
Cornmeal crusted P&J oysters with Clemson blue and butter-milk dressing  $12.00 
 
Chilled cucumber and buttermilk soup with house smoked wild-salmon and crab meat  $11.00 
 

Lunch Main Courses

Olive crusted speckled trout with basil risotto, crispy fried sweet tomatoes and aïoli  $16.00 
 
Herb crusted lemonfish with artichokes, chorizo aned saffron  $20.00 
 
Fresh cheese and piquillo filled roulade of rabbit with white bean ravioli, young garlic and heirloom tomatoes  $19.00 
 
Berrigan's veal panée with Bing cherries, braised greens and chanterelles  $16.00 
 
Brian Cappy's jumbo shrimp and Jacobs?s andouille sausage over organic Anson Mills grits  $17.00 
 
Crispy seared blackfish with silver queen corn and local crabmeat  $22.00 
 

Dessert

A Southern Cheese Plate Bittersweet Plantations Fleur de Teche and Vache Sante, Clemson University blue, and Thomasville Tomme  $15.00 
 
trio of spiced chocolate vanilla scented white chocolate, salt and caramel bittersweet and milk chocolate with orange and red chili  $13.00 
 
Père Roux's banana rum cake with Creole cream-cheese icing  $13.00 
 
frozen crème fraîche soufflé with local peaches and blackberry cabernet sorbet  $9.00 
 
chilled terrine of Clydes farm blueberries with vanilla cream and honey  $8.00 
 
trio of summer sorbet served with madeleine, shortbread and financier  $7.00 
 

Dessert Wines

Late Harvest Sauvignon Blanc, Honig, Napa Valley, 2006   $20.00 
 
Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, Château La Rame   $12.00 
 
Sauternes, Carmes de Rieussec   $12.00 
 
Sauternes, Château Roûmieu-Lacoste, 2005   $13.00 
 
Sauternes, Château Les Justices, 2003   $20.00 
 
Beerenauslese, ?Messidor,? Gunderloch, Rheinhessen, 2005   $9.00 
 
Orange Blossom Muscat, ?Essensia,? Quady, Madera, 2005   $10.00 
 
Vidal Icewine, Inniskillin, Niagara Penninsula, 2005   $25.00 
 

Ports

Broadbent 1997   $19.00 
 
Croft Ruby   $8.00 
 
Warres 1989 ?Quinta de Cavidinha?   $17.00 
 
Nieport, LBV 1999   $11.00