Openings Openings Openings + Great Chopped Salad with Chicken

NEW 
At the Galleries!

Courtesy of Stux Gallery  © Ruud van Empel, 2011

As I write this issue, there is a driving, cold rain beating on my window, but for several days recently the weather has been great for a stroll through Chelsea to see what's new.


At Tria Gallery:
Keun Young Park shows off her mixed media collage series "Awakening". 

Keun Young Park creates her micro-collages out of photos taken of her, by her husband; THEN she simplifies and colors them within photoshop; THEN she tears them up into tiny 1/32 " pieces as if they have been put through a wood chipper/shredder; THEN she re-assembles them using glue to put the pieces back together on to fine art paper. The heads of her figures morph into trees and shrubs through collaged photo, ink and holes poked into the paper. The torsos end up with a texture, to me it looked like manipulated colored wax, but it is simply paper. Keun's mixed media art makes composites out of human and natural forms and to my eye are strikingly beautiful and fresh. The mini-collaged bodies are the source of my fascination with these works with elegant color, texture and tiny shadows.

Park says of her work: "...I reflect upon... the opposite sides of nature – negative and positive, construction and destruction, presence and absence, and life and death.  I believe that everything is constantly changing, either being generated or destroyed. Presence is just a state of being and the reality of an object has ambiguity in this shifting...." Keun Young Park was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She received her BFA and MFA from Seoul National University and last year was the recipient of an A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship.


All artwork is available through Tria Gallery, copyright Keun Young Park. Source: all information came from the artist at the opening and from the press release / Tria (The Suchman Bart Metheny Gallery), 531 West 25th Street, ground floor suite #5, New York, NY 10001 Phone 212.695.0021 Email <info@triagallerynyc.com>  Website: http://www.triagallerynyc.com


At Stefan Stux Gallery: The Dutch artist Ruud van Empel exhibits his hyper-real photographic, digital, compositions titled "Wonder" through May 14, 2011.

Courtesy of Stux Gallery  © Ruud van Empel, 2011

Van Empel creates photo-collages by meticulously stitching together fragments of thousands of images the artist photographed himself. No obvious traces of Photoshop are evident in his "everything-in-focus", very flat and very large photographs. Instead the viewer is drawn into van Empel’s subject matter - a comment on ethnicity and on children being grouped by their ethnicity. His world is undeniably hyper-real and the proportions are sightly off. His children have one foot in innocence and one foot in their future adulthood. 

All artwork is available through Stux Gallery, copyright Ruud van Empel. Source: All information came from the opening and from a press release / Sefan Stux Gallery, 530 W. 25th St. NYC 10001  Phone 212-352-1600 Email <andrea@stuxgallery.com> Website www.stuxgallery.com

At Slag Gallery:

The Brooklyn artist Janos Stone exhibits his Sheetrock Carvings through May 8, 2011.

The recent works of Janos Stone are a continuation of his sheetrock compositions which he cuts into undulating forms, sometimes digitally printed and mostly carves in bas relief as shown above. His very unusual medium is cut up to represent the mathematics of our pixilated world.

All artwork is available through Slag Gallery, copyright Janos Stone. Source: all information came from the opening and from the press release / Slag Gallery, 531 West 25th St. Ground Level #10, New York, NY 10001 Phone 212.967.9818 Website: www.slaggallery.com 


At Claire Oliver Gallery: Artist Stephanie Lempert exhibits her digitally created, Nylon-based plastic sculptures, titled "Reconstructed Reliquaries" through May 7, 2011.

So Sexy rapid prototype sculpture 7 x 3.3 x 6.4 inches

Lempert explores the nature of cherished mementos and reminiscences that make them precious.  The Artist consolidated real stories from people people she interviewed and then connected them to a single inanimate object.

Black To Move (detail)  rapid prototype sculpture  4.5 x 18 x 18 inches

All artwork is available through Claire Oliver Gallery, copyright Stephanie Lemert. Source: all information came from the opening and from the press release / Claire Oliver Gallery, 513 West 26th St. Ground Level #10, New York, NY 10001 Phone 212.929.5949 Website: www.claireoliver.com 


At Marlborough Gallery: Artist Arnaldo Pomodoro exhibits his architectonic sculptures, titled "Continuum" through May 14, 2011.

In an exhibition he has dedicated to the late John Updike, Pomodoro continues his characteristic physical examination of surface, form and structure through his highly evolved cast bronze works. He employs basic geometric shapes, such as spheres, columns, cones and cubes as the overall framework of the sculptures. The bronze surfaces are in places highly polished and reflective, but in other places appear torn open, cut, shattered, or turned inside-out to express the underlying and otherwise hidden forces that he sees embodied in his sculptures. Pomodoro has stated, “I have spent over fifty years exploring complex  geometrics through my work and now feel  more than ever that these geometrics include by implication the forms of abstract reason, and even of technological rationality, whereas the fissures correspond to the forms of the primitive, the unconscious, and the forces within matter itself.  As I see it, the  value to be found in these two things today lies precisely in their coexisting together side by side.”

I wanted to return to occupying myself with the important surfaces of my first marks. Going back and studying the origins of my work, the first experiences of engraving on small plates, I created a sort of infinite path with the codes and 

inventory of all my “writing.” And the writing itself is continuous: one line after another, whether it be of alphabetic writing or ideographic script. I’ve always been fascinated by the symbols of man, especially those that are archaic: the graffiti of the early Mesopotamian tablets, those made to pass on memories and stories. I have always thought these signs so simple yet so intense, unreadable 

messages in a lost language. 

Arnaldo Pomodoro was born in Mociano di Romagna in 1926 and grew up in nearby Pesaro. His first solo exhibition was in 1955 in Milan, where he currently lives and works. 

All artwork is available through Marlborough Gallery, copyright Arnaldo Pomodoro. Source: all information came from the opening and from the press release / Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th, New York, NY 10019 Phone 212.541.4900 Website: www.marlboroughgallery.com 


At The Pace Gallery: Elizabeth Murray's paintings from the '70s through April 30, 2011.

Two examples of
Elizabeth Murray's painting style.

The Pace Gallery exhibit is the first for the artist since her passing in 2007 and the 30 works include many on loan from major museums.

Elizabeth Murray

Elizabeth Murray (1941-2007) focused on painting, at a time when painting was being questioned, with her use of geometric shapes: both abstracted figurative forms and non-objective cut out colored shapes in order to build her "abstracted narrative" language. Her paintings were a personal response to the male-dominated painting styles of the 1970's. Elizabeth Murray was "An intense, unpretentious woman with vivid blue eyes and an unruly nest of prematurely white hair, Ms. Murray received a full-dress retrospective spanning her 40-year career at the Museum of Modern Art in 2006, one of handful of women to be so honored. In 1999 she was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Ms. Murray belonged to a sprawling generation of Post-Minimal artists who spent the 1970's reversing the reductivist tendencies of Minimalism and reinvigorating art with a sense of narrative, process and personal identity." (Quotes denote a selection from Murray's obituary written by Roberta Smith, NYTimes 2007.) 

All artwork is available through The Pace Gallery, copyright the estate of Elizabeth Murray. Source: all information came from the opening, the press release and from an obituary in NYTimes  / The Pace Gallery, New York, NY Phone 212.421.8987 Website: info2@thepacegallery.

FOOD

Entree

Chopped Salad

with Chicken

Salad

1/2 head iceberg lettuce in 1/2 inch dice, 5 cups, 

1 head romaine lettuce in 1/2 inch dice, 5 cups

1 small red onion, cut in half and  thinly sliced 

1/2 cup danish blue cheese crumbled, 4 ounces

3 Roma tomatoesk diced
1 poached chicken breast (3 ounces) diced

1/2 cup thinly sliced bacon, pan fried until crispy and finely chopped (or 4 ounces prosciutto, cut into 1" squares and pan fried in a little oil)

3 ounces dressing or amt. to taste

Garnish

1 avocado small dice

1 teaspoon prosciutto pan fried and chopped reserved for garnish

1 tablespoon of diced red bell pepper

1 tablespoon diced chives

Dressing

1 1/2 teaspoons Coleman's dry mustard 

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1/4 cup water

1 1/2 teaspoons garlic, grated

1 1/2 teaspoons white onion grated

2 tablespoons redwine vinegar  mixed with 1/4 cup white vinegar

1/8 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup canola oil mixed with 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil

1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes, crushed 

1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper

3/4 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated 

Instructions

Combine first 7 dressing ingredients in a food processor. Mix until smooth. Slowly drizzle in the oils, continue to blend. Pour into a mixing  bowl, add remaining ingredients and stir with a wire whisk. Store in sealed containers in refrigerator. This makes 2 quarts of dressing.

Place lettuce in large serving bowl and add all the ingredients except te garnish and mix well. Add the dressing and mix well.

Serve and top each portion with garnish.

Source: Created by combining salad recipes posted on several sites on the Internet.

Until later, 

Jack

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SOFA NY "FUNCTIONAL ART" FAIR + John Marin in Chicago +Le Gâteau de Madame Baltimore

Merete Rasmussen Contemporary Applied Arts, London

ART / SHOPPING

SOFA NY

Sculpture, Objects & Functional Arts Fair

SOFA, the World's Fair of Contemporary Decorative Arts & Design, will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday, April 17, 2011.

This show is about ART OBJECTS from furniture to fine art. Some of the pieces shown are worthy of high end art galleries and some worthy of high end tourist gift shops in Maui, but it is ALL ABOUT SHOPPING.

Doug Heller of the Heller Gallery

If you have the shopping bug, and you enjoy buying unusual and radical jewelry, or your passion is art glass, pottery, turned wood or wire sculpture you and your interior designer will love SOFA.  The notable art jewelry gallerists include: Sienna Gallery from Lenox, MA, Ornamentum from Hudson, NY, Jewelers' Werk Galerie from Washington, DC, and Aaron Faber Gallery from New York.

Jennifer Trask, Ornamentum,

Hudson, NY

Expanding to three days this year, the highly popular lecture series with  internationally prominent scholars, artists, and curators will take place in the Armory’s Tiffany Room on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 14, 15, and 16th.  Artist talks at individual dealer's booths are also planned. Museum notables speaking include The Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, London and The Curator of the Museum of Art and Design, New York.

Michael Eden, "Grey Bloom", 2010 edition 1/12

3/D Additive Layer Manufacturing, high quality nylon

Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London

Efharis Alepedis, Necklace, 2010

red patent leather, silk cocoons, epoxy resin, silver

Charon Kransen Arts, New York

Kate Malone, Atomic Vase, 2010

glazed stoneware

14.5 x 12.5 x 10"

Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon, London

Geoffrey Mann, Nocturne
Long Exposure Series, 2009, nylon
Joanna Bird, London

Daniel DiCaprio, Mutation 11.1
Charon Kransen Arts, New York NY

ART:

Now Showing

John Marin. The Red Sun-Brooklyn Bridge (detail), 1922. 

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

John Marin

An American Master Watercolorist,

from the Early Twentieth Century.

Not widely know outside of today's art circles, American modernist painter John Marin was the country’s most celebrated artist, during his lifetime. His improvisational approach to color, paint handling, perspective, and movement situated him as a leading figure in modern art and helped influence the Abstract Expressionist movement. At the heart of this exhibition is a group of 40 watercolors which were donated to the Art Institute in 1949 and 1956 from the collection of Alfred Stieglitz by his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe. While a few individual works from this gift have been loaned on rare occasions to other institutions, this collection has never before been presented and published in its entirety. Important loans from other Chicago collections enrich this cache of material even further. This exhibition  ranges from early images rooted in traditional practice to more personal and experimental compositions, showcasing how Marin, in the process of reinventing watercolor, transformed American painting.

This video on Marin is very interesting, although 14 minutes long. 

John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism, 

will be on view in the museum’s Jean and Steven Goldman Prints and Drawings Galleries in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Wing  only until this Sunday, April 17, 2011.  Afterwards it will travel to the High Museum in Atlanta and will be up from June 26 until September 11, 2011.

www.artinstituteofchicago.org   

The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60603-6404 phone (312) 443-3600

Source: All information for this article came from the press department of The Art Institute of Chicago, the cropped image of the John Marin painting is © 2011 The Art Institute of Chicago.

FOOD:

Le Gâteau de Madame Baltimore

A white cake with a luscious frosting and filling made with figs, candied fruits, and chopped pecans.

Ingredients:

• white cake, from mix or see white cake recipe below
• .
• Frosting and Filling
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 2/3 cup water
• 2 teaspoons light corn syrup
• 2 egg whites
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1/4 cup chopped figs
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1/8 cup candied cherries diced
• 1/8 cup candied mangos
• 1/4 cup candied pineapple diced
• Fresh Fruit cherry halves on top

Preparation:

Using a mix or your favorite white cake recipe, bake a 2 layer white cake according to recipe or package directions. Put a coating of filling between the layers, stack the cake together and frost the top and sides.

Combine sugar, flour, and corn syrup in a saucepan; cook, stirring, over low heat until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil and boil to 240°. Meanwhile, when syrup reaches about 234°, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form; add salt. Remove syrup from heat when 240° is reached and immediately pour a very thin stream over stiffly beaten egg whites and salt, beating constantly. Add vanilla. Continue beating until frosting cools and is of spreading consistency, about 10 minutes.

Add chopped fruits and nuts to about 1/3 of the frosting mixture and use as filling between layers. Frost top and sides of cake with remaining frosting.

Adapted from a recipe in McCall's Magazine, 1926, submitted online by Diana Rattray through About.com

White Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 1/2 cups sifted cake flour (sift before measuring)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 8 egg whites, stiffly beaten

Preparation:

Cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy; stir in vanilla. Sift flour with baking powder. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture alternately with the milk, beating well after each addition.

Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, incorporating evenly. Spoon batter into two deep greased and floured round cake pans. Bake in preheated 350° oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until cake tests done.

Until later, 

Jack

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Where are the Galleries? Yuki's Opening + Vegans love BLOSSOM

Omar Chacon

Represented by

Margaret Thatcher Projects

in Chelsea Arts District

The Gallery System 

Several cities around the world have art galleries clustered for easy access. If you have ever tried to make the rounds of galleries, or museums for that matter, in London or Los Angeles or Paris you know it can be exhausting, almost impossible, because of the twisting city street plans and the travel time between venues. We have tried to see the complete art scenes in all three cities, but after a week or more of dedicated effort in each city we gave up on visiting many of the galleries. In New York City there are several "main" groupings of galleries with the total number of galleries being in the hundreds. Because of the quantity, seeing them all is unlikely, but seeing 15 or 20 gallery exhibitions in a day in Chelsea or on 57th Street can be relatively easy, because the galleries are almost side by side, floor upon floor.

The main art districts of NYC are: the Chelsea Arts District; 57th Street and the Upper East Side along Madison Ave; Soho; and Williamsburg / Dumbo in Brooklyn.

People who think Paris is still the art center of the world also believe Soho is still the art center of NYC. Unfortunately, I have some very old and disappointing news for those readers: "Things Changed!" A long, long time ago for Paris and for NYC fifteen to twenty years ago the Soho Art Galleries and Artist's Lofts started morphing into what is now one of the posh shopping districts of the world, with rents far too expensive for galleries and artists. There still are galleries located in Soho, the ones who had long leases, and considering the large crowds on the streets, all looking to buy things, it is still a good location. 

The Soho galleries all moved to Chelsea. Now about 250 galleries currently sell the works of living/contemporary artists in the Chelsea Arts District, down from around 300 before the banking crisis. Before galleries and studios moved into Chelsea, the Arts District buildings were used for cold storage warehouses, printing plants, auto repair shops and services / restaurants targeting Taxi drivers. Some of that still remains. The Artist Community relocated from Soho and the Village to Williamsburg, Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) and surrounding areas in Brooklyn. Because the artists now live in the area, a group of gallerists have started new galleries near them. The work shown in these galleries rivals that of Chelsea in quality, but with less traffic because of the location. The big galleries often shop these galleries looking for the next wave of emerging talent. 

To complete this overview, the galleries on 57th Street and the upper East Side along Madison Avenue sell many of the "BIG BOYS" in art. If you want to buy a Cezanne, Miro, Matisse, Picasso, Audubon, etc. painting, print, ceramic, drawing, sculpture or the work of late 20th century art stars; or a historic, museum quality piece of art from a Greek, Etruscan, Chinese, etc. treasure trove - then you visit the Upper East Side galleries.

There are galleries in Harlem and all over New York City, but these areas are the most visited districts with clusters of galleries.

It has been a long winter, finally good weather for an art opening in Chelsea.

The crowds were out this past Thursday in Chelsea looking at art and seeing how fellow gallery goers were doing. Many of the regulars have not seen each other since the art openings before Thanksgiving. 

Today, I'm sharing my visit to artist Yuki Onodera's new exhibition at the Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W. 25th Street. I attended other openings, and will write about them soon, but for now enjoy how Yuki uses the photograhic print as the final stage of her multi-media process.


Yossi Milo Gallery

Exhibits the work of artist

Yuki Onodera

It is her premiere U.S.  solo show. 

The show will remailn up until May 28, 2011. 

BELOW: A Video of Yuki's opening - showing her Transvest series.

Ms. Onodera’s ongoing Transvest series (2002–present) are life-sized gelatin silver prints of human figures in silhouette. From a distance, the figures appear to be characters easily identifiable by their clothing and gestures: a flamenco dancer, cowboy or boxer. However, closer inspection reveals that each form is a cut-out shape clothed in fragmented imagery of diverse subjects, including architecture, animals, streetlights, portraits, microscopic organisms, or landscapes. The carefully selected figures from various printed materials are first cut out, placed on a mirror stage and photographed against strong back-lighting. Through physical and digital collage, the figures are filled with image fragments from old photographs, magazines, video and other material, dating from the invention of photography through the present day. Printing and processing the gelatin silver prints in the dark room, the final result is iconic silhouettes. As composite images, each figure transcends and embraces the world around it. 

Also shown are photographs from The Eleventh Finger series (2006–present) which are anonymous street portraits, taken spontaneously without use of the view finder. The faces of the subjects are obscured by doily like paper cutouts overlaid onto the photograph during the printing process, creating both a photogram and photograph. By covering the faces, the artist both highlights the postures and gestures of the subjects, while also rendering the same postures and gestures meaningless without a face.

Yuki Onodera’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia and the United States. The artist was born in Tokyo in 1962 and has lived and worked in Paris since 1993.

Information source: Yossi Milo Gallery press release.

FOOD

No animals are harmed 

during the making of 

"these" meals.

BLOSSOM

VEGAN

RESTAURANT

Finding a good restaurant near the Chelsea Arts District in NYC has always been a challenge with only three or four regular establishments, several other eateries have come and gone, and now some previous gallery spaces have been converted to food establishments. Recently the icon of the district, the well loved Empire Diner closed after not being given an extension on their lease. Exclusive new condo buildings continue to be completed allowing art people to live in the Arts District, which ten years ago was a "no-fly-zone" for upscale New Yorkers and visitors. The #7 subway line is also being extended to bring in the crowds.

"Blossom", located on 9th Ave. between 21st and 22nd is a beautiful space serving organic vegan cuisine. This dining option, only one block east of the main district is in a historic building with rustic touches like a fireplace and a dark wood bar. I have posted the Blossom lunch and dinner menus below. The buzz is about the restaurant's meatless dishes from around the world and their organic wine and beer. Co-owners Pamela Blackwell and Ronen Seri wanted to open a true “Organic-DairyFree-Vegan-Vegetarian-AnimalCaring” restaurant, not one which just offered some vegan dishes for practitioners. 

Check out their spicy vegetarian chili made with black beans, corn and vegetables, served with crunchy herb-sprinkled corn chips for $7, or the linguine tossed with tofu, broccoli rabe, tomatoes and olives for $14, and their pressed marinated and grilled mushrooms and roasted peppers 

sandwich  for $12. Desserts include a creamy chocolate torte or a lavender creme brulee.

Everone can have a great meal at blossom, but for the many vegans in the art world, it is "Nirvāna".

Blossom: 187 Ninth Avenue, between 21st & 22nd, NYC 10011  

Phone: 212-627-1144 // Fax: 212-627-8216

http://www.blossomnyc.com/

See the long and complete menus below in the Post Script.

Until later,

Jack 

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POST SCRIPT:

BLOSSOM MENUS

LUNCH 

Served Friday, Saturday & Sunday;   12:00-2:45

Starters

Ravioli in Cashew Cream ~ 11

Spinach, mushroom, and pine nut filling.

Cape Cod Cakes ~10

A blend of hiziki seaweed, herbs and spices. Served with vegan tartar sauce.

Black-eyed Pea Cake ~10

Crispy cake of yukon gold potato and black eyed peas, topped with chipotle aioli.

Breakfast Cravings

French Toast ~ 11

Served with maple syrup and tempeh bacon.

Tofu Scramble ~ 13

Fresh tofu sautéed with onion, mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes, and soy sausage.

Served with toast; salad or fries.

Salads

Blossom Greens ~ 9/13

Mixed greens, cherry tomatoes, jicama, carrot, pumpkin and sunflower seeds

in ginger teriyaki dressing.

Caesar Salad ~ 9/12

Fresh romaine lettuce & herbed croutons in our own Caesar dressing.

Field Green ~ 10

Field greens tossed with tofu croutons, candied walnuts and grilled pear. Shallot vinaigrette.

Sandwiches

(choice of fresh cut fries or field greens)

Soy Bacon Cheeseburger ~ 13

Caramelized onions, vegan cheese, soy bacon, mushrooms, lettuce, tomato and chipotle aioli.

BLT ~ 13

Crispy southern fried tofu, tempeh bacon, lettuce, and tomato on ciabatta.

Philly Cheese Sandwich ~ 14

Pan seared seitan, grilled onions, peppers, vegan cheese and chipotle aioli.

Tuscan Portobello Sandwich ~ 12

Grilled Portobello, roasted red peppers and caramelized onions

topped with vegan mozzarella and spicy mayo.

Entreés

Phyllo Roulade ~ 15

French lentils and root vegetables baked in a phyllo crust

served over a carrot cashew cream sauce with rainbow swiss chard and caramelized onions.

Crispy Thai Tofu ~ 15

Thai tofu served with basmati rice and baby bok choy.

Blossom Burrito ~ 13

Black beans, rice, avocado and vegan cheese, served with field greens.

Seitan Scallopini ~ 18

Seitan cutlets in a white wine lemon caper sauce, served with mashed potatoes and sautéed kale.

Sides ~ 6

Garlic Spinach / Swiss Chard / Sauteed Kale / Braised Miso Tofu / Mashed Potatoes / Grilled Portobello / Fresh Cut Fries

Desserts

Chocolate Ganache

Blossom Cheesecake

Lavender Creme Brulee

“Cocoa V” Chocolate Plate of Assorted Bon Bons

Apple Cinnamon Sticks with Brandy Caramel Sauce

DINNER MENU

Open Daily: Monday-Thursday 5:00-10:00

Friday/Saturday 5:00-10:30

Sunday 5:00-9:30

Starters

Parsnip Cappelletti ~ 10

Fresh hand-rolled ravioli stuffed with savory whipped

parsnip and crushed potatoes, finished with shiitakes and truffle oil.

Black-eyed Pea Cake ~10

Crispy cake of yukon gold potatoes and

black eyed peas, served with chipotle aioli.

Cape Cod Cakes ~ 11

A blend of hiziki seaweed, tofu, herbs and spices,

served with a vegan tartar sauce.

Sweet Potato Rolls (raw) ~ 12

Stuffed with shredded coconut, jicama, carrot, red and yellow peppers,  scallions, and avocado, with an almond ginger dipping sauce.

Ravioli with Cashew Cream ~ 11

Filled with smoked tempeh, spinach, pine nuts, and white mushrooms.

Porcini Flutes ~ 11

Hand-rolled phyllo filled with porcini mushrooms,

almonds, and ground tempeh, served over a cashew pesto, finished with pomegranate seeds.

Seitan Empanadas ~ 11

Served with saffron aioli and a salad of avocado

and hearts of palm.

Soup Du Jour ~ 7

Salads

Arugula Salad ~ 11/15

Served with red onion, garbanzo beans, hearts of palm,

and avocado, tossed in a roasted garlic vinaigrette.

Caesar Salad ~ 10/13

Romaine lettuce & herbed croutons tossed in a creamy Caesar

dressing, topped with herbed gomashio and toasted capers.

Blossom Greens ~ 9/13

Mixed greens, sweet cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, jicama, carrots, tamari-toasted

pumpkin and sunflower seeds in a ginger teriyaki lime dressing.

Field Greens ~ 10/14

Field greens tossed with candied walnuts, tofu croutons,

and grilled pears in a shallot  vinaigrette.

Sides ~ 6

Braised Tofu

Mashed Potatoes

Baby Bok Choy

Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Grilled Portobello

Sauteed Garlic Spinach

Entrees

Seitan Scaloppini ~ 21

Seitan cutlets in a white wine, lemon and caper sauce,

served with mashed potatoes and sautéed kale.

Rigatoni in Porcini Cream ~ 19

Cooked with shallots, leeks, and broccoli rabe, finished with

pistachio gremoulata and truffle oil.

Hickory Basted Tempeh over Horseradish Crème Fraiche ~18

Served with roasted fingerling potatoes and collard greens.

Port Wine Seitan ~ 22

Seitan cutlets pan-seared in a sauce of port wine and mushrooms, 

accompanied by creamy mashed potatoes, tempura onion, 

and sautéed garlic spinach.

Feijoadinha with Smokey Tempeh ~ 19

A lighter version of “Feijoada,” the Brazilian national dish:

a stew of smokey roasted tempeh, black beans, chayote squash, and

sweet potatoes, in an orange-lime broth.

Phyllo Roulade ~18

French lentils and root vegetables baked in a phyllo crust,

served over a carrot-cream sauce.

Caramelized onions and swiss chard complement.

Vegetable Mezze Plate ~ 18

Our Chef’s preparation of fresh vegetables:

roasted fennel, brussels sprouts, sweet potato puree,

sautéed kale, and tri-color cauliflower, accompanied by spiced quinoa.

Pistachio and Pepper Dusted Tofu ~ 20

Served over roasted root vegetable crepe and a lemon truffle emulsion.

Finished with frisee salad tossed in red beet vinaigrette.

Lasagna ~ 18

A vegan taste of a classic:  stuffed with tapioca cheese, ground seitan,

and roasted eggplant, over marinara and sautéed broccoli rabe.

Dessert

Lavender Creme Brulee

Chocolate Ganache

Blossom Cheesecake

“Cocoa V” Chocolate Plate of Assorted Bon Bons

Cinnamon Apple Sticks with Brandy Caramel Sauce

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