WARNING: do not reply to this post directly. In order to find my real email address, you'll have to get out the scalpels and perform an emergency appendectomy. Someone wrote: : I read last week a post regarding a new restaurant on college ave in : berkeley/oakland called NAVA?? i attempted to get phone number thru : 411 but they had no listing -- so... : 1. is this the name of the restaurant? : 2. does anyone have the phone number? : 3. does it still exist??? Yep, I just came from there. The restaurant is located on College Avenue at Lawton, about two blocks down from the Rockridge BART station. The menu is impressive, and all the food very fresh - I watched them peel the apples for caramelizing with pork loin, and chop mirepoix for the stock. The chef, Rob, seems quite competent and knowlegeable, and the prices reasonable. Their menu today looked like this: Starters: Caramelized onion and gorgonzola cheese tarte - $6.25 Fuego "Nava" trio of smoked salmon - $5.50 Tequila chile cured, cracked pepper, cilantro Field greens, basil balsamic vinaigrette - $4.50 Crab cakes, cilantro beurre blanc - $6.50 Nava's soup of the day - $4.50 Entrees: Crispy skin salmon - $14.50 Smoky corn relish, garlic mashed potatoes, Sonoran yucca chips Lobster and wild mushroom ravioli, pistachio cream - $12.95 Wood roasted chicken - $13.75 Baby vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes, coriander sweet corn coulis Grilled pork tenderloin - $14.75 Port demi reduction, caramelized apple and onion, mashed potatoes Filet mignon, wild mushroom ragout, Jack Daniel demi - $17.75 Cilantro linguine - $11.95 Shaved Bermuda onion, smoked paprika sauce Bon appetit, Tanith Tyrr *************************************************************************** "The joys of the table belong equally to all ages, conditions, countries and times; they mix with all other pleasures, and remain the last to console us for their loss." - Jean Antheleme Brillet-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste ****************************************************************************
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