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Fine French Cuisine

Appetizers • Entrées • Desserts  Coffee and Tea Beer • Water  Sunday Brunch


Appetizers

Puree of Fresh Jersey Spinach Soup - 6.50
Served with petils croutons and cucumber julienne.
Salad Verjus - 6.50
Assorted lettuces and tomato with Verjus vinaigrette.
Organic Dandelion Salad - 8.50
Organic dandelion greens with Roquefort cheese, roasted walnuts, shaved fennel and walnut oil dressing.
Grilled Artichoke Salad - 9.50
Salad of warm grilled artichoke hearts, endive, lentils and lemon garlic vinaigrette.
Morels and Field Mache - 9.50
Morel mushrooms in a light cream sauce with field mache and puff pastry.
Escargots Bourguignon en Cocotte -  7.00
Snails simmered in a white wine, butter, garlic, and parsley sauce, pine nuts, and a touch of anise liquor served in a casserole.
Duck Liver Terrine - 7.50
Terrine of duck liver served with Dijon mustard, cornichons, lingonberry compote and croutons.

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Entrées

Grilled Marinated Yellow Fin Tuna and Portobello Mushroom - 24.00
Fresh Yellow Fin tuna marinated with olive oil, garlic and ginger, served with grilled Portobello mushroom, sautéed spinach, straw potatoes, and balsamic vinaigrette.
Soft Shell Crabs - 24.00
Sautéed meuniere, served with straw potatoes and garlic anchovy slaw.
Pan Seared Sea Scallops - 21.00
Served with fresh pasta, frizzled leeks and mushrooms in a sherry cream sauce.
Herb Crusted Roast Filet of Salmon - 19.50
Served with rice pilaf, roasted cauliflower, wilted cucumbers, roasted tomatoes, and Verjus reduction.
Roast Chicken with Tarragon - 18.00 One-half chicken roasted with a layer of tarragon reduction under the skin. Served with glazed carrots and garlic mashed potatoes.
Roast Peking Duck - 21.00
One-half crisp roasted Peking duck served with black rice, braised red cabbage, and ginger rhubarb salmic sauce.
Roast Leg of Lamb - 21.00
Leg of lamb roasted with garlic and mustard served with goat cheese polenta, fiddlehead ferns and a roasted garlic sauce.
Escalopine of Veal Filet - 24.00
Sautéed and served with wild rice, fiddlehead ferris, salsify, and morel sauce.
Hanger Steak - 18.50
Served with garlic mashed potatoes, haricots verts, and red wine shallot reduction.
Steak au Poivre - 28.00
Aged shell steak crusted with crushed peppercorns and served with green peppercorn sauce, roasted beets, and roasted potatoes.
Sautéed Calves Liver - 18.00
Nature calves liver sautéed and served with garlic mashed potatoes, haricots verts and a sherry vinegar and shallot sauce.

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Desserts


Assorted Cheeses - 9.00
L'Exlorateur, Boucheron de Chevre, and Roquefort.
Fresh Raspberries and Strawberries - 9.00
Served with Crème Fraiche Ice Cream.
Apple Tarte Tatin - 6.50
Served with Crème Fraiche Ice Cream.
Lavender Crème Brulée - 6.50
Molten Chocolate Truffle Cake - 7.50
Raspberry sauce and Crème Anglaise.
Assorted Fresh Fruit Sorbets and Ice Creams - 6.50
Please ask about the flavors of the day.
Profiteroles - 8.50
Chocolate chip ice cream profiteroles with warm chocolate sauce.
Crisp du Jour - 7.50
Served with Crème Fraiche Ice Cream.
Soufflé - 10.00
Please ask about the flavors of the day.

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Coffee and Tea


Coffee - 2.50
Regular and Decaf.
Espresso - 3.00
Regular and Decaf.
Double Espresso - 3.95
Regular and Decaf.
Cappuccino - 3.95
Regular and Decaf.
Tea - 2.50
Orange Pekoe, Darjeeling, Earl Grey, Decaffeinated English Breakfast, Decaffeinated Irish Breakfast, Lapsang Souchong, or Jasmine Green Tea.
Herbal Tea - 2.50
Chamomile, Mint, or Rose Hip Hibiscus.

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Beer

Anchor Steam - 3.75
New Amsterdam Amber - 3.50
Amstel Light - 3.50
Heineken - 3.50
Buckler Non-Alcoholic (Heineken) - 3.50

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Water

Perrier (200 ml) - 2.50
Sparkling
Perrier (750 ml) - 6.25
Sparkling
San Peliegrino (250 ml) - 2.50
Sparkling
San Peliegrino (1 Liter) - 6.00
Sparkling
Evian (330 ml) - 2.75
Still
Evian (1 Liter) - 6.75
Stil
Highland Spring (330 ml) Scotland - 2.75
Still

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Sunday Brunch

Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice

choice of:

Balsamic Tossed Salad
Puree of Fresh Jersey Spinach Soup

choice of:

Eggs Benedict
Two Poached Eggs on English Toast with Hollandaise Sauce and Your Choice of:
Canadian Bacon, Poached Salmon, or Sautéed Spinach

French Style Omelet
Your Choice of Spinach and Mushroom, Poached Salmon, or Ham and Mushroom and Goat Cheese
Served with Twice Cooked Potatoes

Scrambled Eggs with Applewood Smoked Bacon
Served with Twice Cooked Potatoes and Confit of Red Onion

French Toast
Our Own Raisin Brioche with Fresh Fruit and Pure Maple Syrup

Caramelized Apple Pancake
Pure Maple Syrup

Nicoise Salad
Scared Fresh Yellow Fin Tuna, Anchovies, Hard Boiled Egg, Haricots Verts, Nicoise Olives, Potatoes, Frisce and Balsamic Vinaigrette

Seared Hanger Steak Salad
Sliced Rare Scared Hanger Steak, Roquefort Dressing, Watercress, Salsify, and Tomato

Coffee or Tea

Prix Fixe 25


Brunch Cocktails

Bloody Mary - 6.50
Mimosa - 6.50
Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut NV (Champagne) 187 ml - 18.00

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Verjus Restaurant
1790 Springfield Avenue
Maplewood, NJ 07040-2931
Phone: (973) 378-8990
Fax: (973) 378-9304
info@verjusrestaurant.com