What: Family-style dinner at Café Presse
When: Tuesday May 27, 2014, 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the May 2014 Corner Table  will feature aVegetarian Menu (at least for vegetarians who are egg friendly).  And for those who indulge in fish, there is an option to satisfy you as well.

The next Corner Table dinner at Café Presse is scheduled for Tuesday May 27, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Joanne Herron. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This month featuring a Vegetarian Menu
(for egg friendly vegetarians)

Asperge, œuf mollet, thon confit ou noix
“Yakima asparagus, soft cooked egg, creamy tarragon vinaigrette with
your choice of walnuts or house cured albacore tuna”

Assiettes de crudités
“A selection of raw salads served with hard cooked eggs: celery root rémoulade; cumin carrot; radish with sea salt; beet with tarragon; herbed tomatoes”

Gâteau au chocolat, glace a la vanille et sauce au caramel
“Dense chocolate cake served with vanilla ice cream and warm caramel sauce”

$25 per person for the menu alone, $40 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What: Family-style dinner at Café Presse
When: Tuesday April 29, 2014, 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the April 2014 Corner Table has been set and will feature new dishes from our Spring 2014 menu!  The next Corner Table dinner at Café Presse is scheduled for Tuesday April 29, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Joanne Herron. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Tourin blanchi
“Creamy sweet garlic soup, bleu cheese croutons and marinated spring onions”

Caille croustillant, sa salade aux pommes de terre rôties et au lard fume
“Buttermilk fried quail, warm salad of roasted potatoes, green beans, bacon and red onion, smoked paprika mayonnaise”

Tourteau poitevin et ses pruneaux marinés au Cognac
“Rich mascarpone cake,  dried plums simmered with honey, spices, red wine and Cognac”

$27 per person for the menu alone, $42 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)
Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What: Family-style dinner at Café Presse
When: Tuesday March 25, 2014, 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the Marche 2014 Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Café Presse is scheduled for Tuesday March 25, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Joanne Herron. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Pois chiche, orange, crevettes
“Grilled head-on gulf shrimp on marinated chickpeas, red onions, orange and parsley”

              Saucisse à l’ail grillée et son ragoût aux lentilles et aux choux
“Grilled house-made smoked garlic sausage served on white cabbage braised with lentils, apple cider, bacon and sage”

Pain d’épice et sa crème Chantilly au citron
“Rich spice and candied ginger cake served with lemon whipped cream”

$28 per person for the menu alone, $43 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What: Family-style dinner at Café Presse
When: Tuesday February 25, 2014, 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the February 2014 Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Café Presse is scheduled for Tuesday February 25, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Joanne Herron. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Chou nappa, jarret de porc, pommes
“Shredded pork shank, Napa cabbage, fennel, apples, remoulade dressing”

          Poisson au four et ses palourdes à la crème d’ail rôti
“White fish of the day baked with herbed bread crumbs; white beans, Penn Cove Clams, spinach and roasted garlic cream”

Chocolat chaud
“Parisian-style hot chocolate made to order and served with whipped cream”

$28 per person for the menu alone, $43 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What: Family-style dinner at Café Presse
When: Tuesday January 28, 2014, 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the January 2014 Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Café Presse is scheduled for Tuesday January 28, 2014 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Joanne Herron. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Soupe carottes et aux marrons
“Roasted carrot-apple-chestnut soup, served with grain mustard cream”

Confit de canard au petit épeautre, moutard brune, et sauce au porto
“Crispy confit duck leg on a bed of faro, mustard greens and roasted parsnips, with port wine broth”

Riz au lait de coco et sa compote aux ananas
“Coconut rice pudding with pineapple compote and an almond cookie”

$28 per person for the menu alone, $43 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

The Corner Table will be back in 2014, on the last Tuesday of each month.  Look for details coming soon about the next  Corner Table Dinner  on Tuesday January 28, 2014.

What: Family-style dinner at Cafe Presse
When: Tuesday October 29, 2013 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the October Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Cafe Presse is scheduled for Tuesday October 29, 2013 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Marcel Boulanger. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Tartare de bœuf en entree
“Raw NW grass fed beef, hand chopped and seasoned, with grilled baguette and fennel-red pepper-Nicoise olive compote†”

Sauté aux moules, aux câpres et à la crème de safran
“Penn Cove mussels simmered with capers, toasted garlic, sweet onion, parsley creamy saffron fumet”

Fromage normande et sa salade verte aux noix
“Cow’s milk cheese from Normandy;  salad of Bibb lettuce with walnuts and walnut oil vinaigrette”

$27 per person for the menu alone, $42 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)
Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What:  Benefit for Green Plate Special at the Corner Table
When:  Tuesday September 24, 2013, 6:30pm
Where:  The back room at Cafe Presse

Cafe Presse is proud to Welcome Green Plate Special to the Corner Table!

We are pleased to announce that the September 2013 Corner Table Dinner at Cafe Presse will be a fundraising event to benefit Green Plate Special.

Café Presse’s Corner Table dinners are designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. This special edition of the Corner Table will feature a menu designed by GPS Director and Chef Laura Dewell in collaboration with Chef Jim Drohman of Le Pichet and Cafe Presse.  Laura’s menu has been designed around fresh produce picked just a few minutes away, in the Central District, where Green Plate Special’s garden has been inspiring and empowering middle school youth to grow, cook, and enjoy healthy foods for the past three years.

The cost is $75 per person, which includes wine, tax and tip.  All proceeds will go directly to Green Place Special. Space is limited.  For information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.70

Menu

Falafels des fèves, condiment aux courgettes, sauce blanche
“Amuse bouche of crispy dried fava fritters served with zucchini relish and garlic-yogurt sauce”

Salade aux légumes « fin d’été », croutons aux rillettes de thon
“Salad of Romano beans, sweet peppers, tomatoes, basil and chicory, with local albacore rillettes on grilled baguette slices”

Ragoût au porc et aux haricots blancs, chou frisée et confiture de tomates
“Natural pork shoulder braised with white wine, scarlet runner beans and rosemary, served with toasted garlic kale and tomato jam”

Clafouti aux poires et aux groseilles du Cap, et sa crème fouettée
“Dense vanilla custard baked with ground cherries and pears, with ground cherry purée and whipped cream”

Here’s more info about GPS and Laura in their own words:

Green Plate Special (GPS) is a cooking and food-growing nonprofit program, supporting the nutritional and physical health of middle school youth, grades 5-8, primarily low income. As an after-school, field trip and holiday-camp program, we teach young people how to grow and cook healthy whole foods in a home-garden and home-kitchen setting. We are located in Seattle’s Central District, on the corner of MLK Jr. Way and East Union Street. Our programing is free and sliding-scale need based.

Mission:
Through teaching home-focused cooking, food growing and how to shop for food;  we will inspire and empower middle school youth in our community to eat and live healthier lives. We will be a part of the solution to breaking the cycle of childhood obesity and other food related health issues.

Laura Dewell, Founder and Executive Director –Green Plate Special
Laura has been cooking and working in the culinary world for over 25 years. She has owned and operated multiple restaurants, including Pirosmani in Seattle and taught cooking privately and through culinary programs around Seattle.  In the last 10 years, Laura has worked with elementary and middle school children, teaching hands-on cooking classes. With a BA in Child Psychology from the University of Oregon, Laura is now doing her life’s (other dream) of working with middle school youth in both the kitchen and garden in the central district of Seattle. She now digs in the dirt and stirs a pot of soup quite regularly.

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What: Family-style dinner at Cafe Presse
When: Tuesday August 27, 2013 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the August Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Cafe Presse is scheduled for Tuesday August 27, 2013 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Marcel Boulanger. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Brandade de morue nîmoise
“Salt cod purée with garlic, cream and olive oil, served with grilled country bread and marinated olives”

Fallafels et sa salade aux frisée et aux figues, sauce blanche
“Crispy chickpea fritters, curly endive, figs, melon, red onion, lemon-tahini vinaigrette and minted yogurt sauce”

Tarte bordelaise aux fruits à noyau et sa crème anglaise
“Seasonal stone fruit and almond cream tart served with anise hyssop crème anglaise”

$24 per person for the menu alone, $39 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

  Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm.

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.

What: Family-style dinner at Cafe Presse
When: Tuesday July 30, 2013 6:30pm
Where: The back room at Cafe Presse

The menu for the June Corner Table is complete!  The next Corner Table dinner at Cafe Presse is scheduled for Tuesday July 30, 2013 at 6:30pm.  Space is limited and by reservation only so call today to save your place.

The Corner Table is a fixed price dinner designed to celebrate the changing season and the conviviality of the table. The meal will include 3 courses from Cafe Presse’s seasonal menu presented in the traditional style that one might be served if invited to the home of a French family. The meal will also include French country wines selected by wine manager Marcel Boulanger. It’s not about connoisseurship or solemn swirling and sniffing. Instead, come celebrate the best that the season has to offer and the simple pleasure of gathering together with good things to eat and drink.  We hope you can join us.

This Month’s Menu

Salade de tomates « mimosas »
“Local tomatoes, chopped egg, anchovy-caper vinaigrette, parsley”

Filet de porc rôti, polenta au fromage de brebis, confiture oignons-cerises
“Spice brined Carlton pork loin, sheep’s cheese-green onion polenta, rich pork broth, Bing cherry-sweet onion confiture”

Glace à la vanille et sauce au chocolat
“Vanilla ice cream served with warm chocolate sauce”

$26 per person for the menu alone, $41 with wine (price does not include tax or gratuity)

Dinner begins promptly at 6:30pm

For further information or reservations please call Café Presse at 206.709.7674.