Summer 2008 Dinner Menu

Your Chef, Kevin Gentile, takes pride in selecting only the freshest of seasonal ingredients.  

Please ask your server about any special requests, as Kevin is happy to accommodate you if possible.

 

 

Appetizers

 

Gentile’s Bruschetta – marinated roasted peppers, aged provolone cheese and olives on parmesan pesto bruschetta

$9.95

Beef Tenderloin Carpaccio – accompanied by spicy black olive tapanade, grilled diced tomatoes

and mixed basil parmesan cheese

$10.95

Oyster Shooters – six oysters served in our homemade smoked bloody mary cocktail

$10.95

Seafood Cosmo – shrimp, crab, mussels and scallops served in a cocktail of grilled onions, tomatoes,

      cilantro and avocados

$11.95

Smoked Tuna – served with ginger, cucumbers and asparagus and topped with cream cheese & flying fish roe

$10.95

Fried Calamari – with fried artichoke hearts and black olive & tomato dipping sauce.  The Best in Syracuse!

$9.95

Greens Gentile – sautéed escarole mixed with spicy sausage, pancetta, cherry peppers and broccoli topped

     with cheese and toasted bread crumbs

$8.95

 

 

Salads

 

Smoked Salmon Napoleon – tomato, cucumber, mozzarella and smoked salmon towers with

  pickled radish and red onion in a lemon, caper, chive vinaigrette

$6.95

Arugula & Fennel – oranges, strawberries, sliced almonds and goat cheese in a pomegranate vinaigrette

$5.95

Summer Squash Salad – spinach, asparagus, roma tomatoes and cashews in a

         coconut yogurt, ginger, lime chile dressing

                                                                      $5.95                                                                     

Mixed Bean Salad - green beans, white beans, cherry tomatoes, avocadoes, manchego cheese in an

          orange champagne vinaigrette

$5.95

Watermelon & Watercress - pear, red onion and white stilton cheese in a ginger, orange, curry vinaigrette

$5.95

 

 

 

Pasta & Risotto

Chef Gentile prepares all pasta and risotto aldente

                                                                                                                                 

Chicken Risotto – with portabella mushrooms and figs, topped with walnuts, gorgonzola cheese and

      finished with truffle oil

$16.95

Shrimp Risotto – served with three jumbo fried shrimp in a lemon, caper, anchovy red wine sauce 

$18.95

Wild Mushroom Arugula Manicotti – in a chard orange, tomato mint sauce

$18.95

Perciatelli – spicy garlic & oil seared rappini and diced tomatoes topped with bread crumbs

$16.95

Rigatoni – mussels & seared scallops with leeks, shitake mushrooms and pancetta in a

       Sambuca orange cream sauce

$18.95

Gnocchi – with rough cut tri-color tomato sauce & diced eggplant finished with gorgonzola cheese

$15.95

Penne – served with an old world Bolognese sauce OR Kevin’s amazing vodka sauce

$14.95

 

 

Entrée

All entrees are accompanied by a starch and vegetable of the Chef’s Choice

 

Stuffed Chicken – walnut encrusted and stuffed with apricot and brie, set in a jalapeño blueberry cream sauce

$15.95

Olive Oil Poached Chicken – set atop eggplant in a roma tomato, garlic, basil cream sauce

$15.95

Stuffed Eggplant – with edamame, corn and mushroom risotto in a creamy leek sauce

$18.95

Half Duck – grilled and served in a port wine peach demi-glaze

$23.95

Seared Scallops – set in a lemon truffle, grilled tomato sauce garnished with a mushroom pea risotto

$22.95

Filet Mignon - in a Jack Daniel’s mustard demi-glaze

$23.95

New York Strip – with braised leeks, long hots and portabella mushrooms

$22.95

Veal Chop – served atop corn risotto and rapini in a lemon garlic demi-glaze

$28.95

Piedmont Pork – lightly breaded pork chop served with shallot, proscuitto, celery and artichoke in a lemon white wine sauce

$20.95

Pecan Encrusted Lobster Tail – 8 ounce lobster tail in a ginger, honey, rhubarb sauce

$24.95

Crab Meat Stuffed Shrimp - served with a creamy garlic, beet, morel mushroom butter and garnished with cherry tomatoes stuffed with pesto goat cheese

$24.95