Josie Menu - SANTA MONICA, CA, 90405 - Ratings, Reviews, The Greater Los Angeles-Long Beach Area

Josie

(310) 581-9888 · 2424 PICO BLVD · SANTA MONICA, CA 90405

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Just off the beaten path is where you will find Chef Josie Le Balch's self-titled Progressive American eatery. By lending her French culinary heritage, her Italian expertise and her love of simple, na... read more.

Appetizers

Farmers' Market Greens: with market tomatoes, schaner farms' avocado, and fresh herbs tossed in an aged red wine-tarragon vinaigrette

$14.00

Butternut Squash and Heirloom Apple Soup: topped with a date and walnut-stuffed baked baby apple, currants, and curry-scented walnut oil

$14.00

Belgian Endive and Aged English Stilton Salad: with baked pear, spicy watercress, and toasted pecans

$15.00

Sauteed Frog's Legs: in brown butter with capers, toasted almonds, preserved Meyer lemon, and celery root

$16.00

Warm Autumn Vegetable Salad: a variety of slow-roasted squash, chestnuts, shiitake mushrooms, and arugula leaves on a kabocha pumpkin puree topped with ricotta salata, toasted pumpkin seeds, and pomegranate

$15.00

Port-Roasted Fig and Herbed Goat Cheese Tart: a savory tart layered with herbed goat cheese, port-roasted figs, sweet-and-sour red onion, and wild arugula

$16.00

Skewered Seppia with Merguez Sausage: baby cuttlefish seared with lemon and herbs, over a warm Beluga lentil and fennel salad seasoned with mustard seed oil

$16.00

Bacon-Wrapped Grilled Quail: over soft polenta with a saute of savoy cabbage, pearl onions, and pine nuts

$18.00

Wild Mushroom Sandwich: wild and cultivated mushrooms simmered in cream, sandwiched in flaky puff pastry, and finished with a sherry sauce

$15.00

Entrees

Wild Columbia River Sturgeon: with an Autumn vegetable hash of roasted butternut squash, parsnip, and cauliflower, over a cauliflower-horseradish sauce

$31.00

'Campfire Trout': a whole boneless trout cooked in a cast-iron pan with market Blue Lake beans, asparagus, and yellow corn in a lemongrass nage

$23.00

'Tagine' of Beef Short Ribs: braised moroccan-style and served with curried cous cous and a side of spicy almond yogurt

$29.00

Brittany Salt-Crusted Jidori Chicken Breast: with weiser farms' roasted fingerling potatoes, roasted sunchokes, tomatoes, and crispy fried rapini

$24.00

Buffalo Burger and Truffle Fries: ground sirloin of buffalo stuffed with gruyere cheese, topped with foie gras, and served on a brioche bun

$27.00

Millbrook Farm Venison: served with minnesota wild rice tossed with toasted pecans, haricots verts, and a crimson poached pear

$36.00

Mesquite-Grilled Prime Rib-Eye Medallion: with garlic mashed potatoes, a blue cheese-candied garlic-watercress salad, and pop's peppercorn sauce

$36.00

Australian Rack of Lamb: with grilled radicchio, tapenade mashed potatoes, oven-roasted tomatoes, and a red wine sauce

$34.00

Maple Leaf Farms' 'Double Duck': lacquered duck leg confit and sliced duck breast with sweet potato puree and a frisee salad with grapes and persimmon

$32.00