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February Menu

We make all our food from scratch. Our menu changes constantly to make use of the best seasonal ingredients we can find.

Dinner

Brunch

Sandwiches

Bakery

Soups and Salads

Beer and Wine

   

Dinner

 
 
Appetizers (served 3p-11p)
   

cauliflower ravioli / brown butter, sage, and apple cider reduction

8-
   
smoked whitefish dip / served hot with pickled onions and crackers
9-
 
Riverbend polenta / chipotle polenta, mushrooms, and caramelized onions
7-
   
scallops / apple confit and braised belgian endive
10-
   
sauteed escarole / walnut puree, saba vinegar
7-
   
Entrees (served 5p-10p)  
   
striped bass / pan-seared served with celeriac slaw and chermoula
13-
   
poussin / half a young hen served with polenta, brussells sprouts, and tomato broth
14-
 
black barley cake / maitake mushrooms, fennel, and butter lettuce
11-
   
seafood risotto / Laughing Bird shrimp, scallops, and cod
13-
   
Thousand Hills flat iron steak / cumin and smoked sea salt crusted, braised figs, sauteed escarole
14-
   
butter lettuce and watercress salad / shaved fennel, golden beets, and saba-lime vinaigrette
9-
   

Brunch

   
Served weekends 8a to 12:30p, 7:30a to 11a weekdays
   

quiche / spinach and Les Freres cheese

8-

   
corn pancake / topped with bananas, granola, and maple syrup
8-
 
breakfast nachos / scrambled eggs, cheddar, avocado, black beans, sour cream, salsa
9-
   
tofu scramble / broccoli, carrots, roasted red peppers, and colby
9-
 

smoked salmon benedict / on vienna toast (available vegetarian for $10)

11-
   
potato hash / potatoes, peppers, onions, and turkey sausage, with 2 fried eggs
9-
   

farmer’s breakfast / two organic eggs, fresh herbs, with american
fries, toast, and turkey sausage

9-
   

bagel, egg, and cheese / bagel, fried egg, fontina, and tomato,
turkey sausage optional (add $1.50), *served until 5p

5-

 

sides / american fries $3, scrambled eggs $3, toast $2, turkey sausage $3

 

Sandwiches

Served weekends 11:30a to 10p, weekdays 10:30a to 10p  
 
burger / Thousand Hills beef, cheddar, on sourdough bun
9-
   
reuben / corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, and thousand island on marble rye (available vegetarian with sauteed mushrooms)
9-
   
grilled cheese / Les Freres and poached pears, on vienna bread

8-

   
curried chicken breast / Larry Schultz chicken, slaw, on vienna bread
9-
   
tofu "egg" salad / cornichons, capers, pickled onions, on marble rye
8-
   
whitefish salad / smoked fish, mixed greens, on marble rye
8-
   
add a cup of soup, a small deli salad or a mixed green salad to a sandwich
2.75
   

Bakery

We offer a full array of baked goods -- stop by the cafe to see our daily-changing options. Every day, we serve bagels (plain, sesame, poppy seed, and onion) and a variety of spreads.
 
single bagel
$0.95
bagel with choice of spread
$2.50
bagel with lox, cream cheese and extras
$6.50
extras
$0.50
 
half dozen bagels
$5.50
dozen bagels
$10
half dozen and 1 tub of organic cream cheese
$8.50
dozen and 2 tubs of organic cream cheese
$15
 

Soups and Salads

 
We offer a constantly changing array of deli salads and soups made from scratch using seasonal ingredients. We also offer green salad specials served from 10:30a-close.
 

cup of soup

$3.75
bowl of soup
$4.75
 
 
small deli salad
$3.50
large deli salad
$5.50
   

Beer and Wine

 
Happy Hour 3-6p and 9-11p: $3 selected beer, $4 selected wine  
 

Beer on Tap

brau bros, rainwater stout
$5
finnegans, irish amber
$4
point, st benedict's winter ale
$4.50
summit, oatmeal stout
$4.50
surly, bender
$4.50
surly, cynic ale
$4.50
surly, furious
$4.50
surly, mild
$4.50
     
     
Wine

Glass

Bottle
     

White

 

 

     
gruner veltliner / biohof pratsch
(austria - organic)
$6.50
$32

pinot grigio / tiamo
(italy - organic)

$6.50
$26

sauvignon blanc / yali
(chile - organic)

$6
$24
 
Red
     

carmenere cabernet / yali
(chile - organic)

$6
$24
malbec / soluna
(argentina - fair trade)
$8.50
$34

pinot noir / tortoise creek
(france - fair trade)

$7
$28
syrah / san francisco wine press
(mendocino, ca - made with organic grapes)
$7
$28
merlot / badger mountain
(colombia valley, wa - organic)
$7
$28
     

 

Common Roots Cafe • 2558 Lyndale Ave. S. • Minneapolis, MN 55405
(612) 871-2360 • info@commonrootscafe.com