Brassica Restaurant is temporarily closed for the winter season. We are currently working on establishing a new, long term location for dinner service. We will update you as soon as we are ready to re-open for business. Cultivated Palette Catering and Cooking Classes are still open and active.
Join us for Brassica Burger Night at the Undertown Coffee Shop on Wednesday nights 5:30 to whenever. We are serving burgers made with local beef from Three Sisters Farm, with Mt. Townsend Jack Cheese, Pickled Midori Farm onions, local arugula on a Pane D'Amore bun with sides of salads featuring local ingredients. The Undertown has beer and wine for sale. Burger night started in March, 2010 and continues through the spring and summer seasons.
Freshly Harvested – Every week we source and often hand-harvest our vegetables, mushrooms, and herbs from local fields and from the wild. We purchase the freshest fish, fowl, and meats possible favoring sources closest to home.
Here and Now - Our menu changes weekly reflecting the evolving flavors of the seasons.
Artfully Crafted - Owner-Chef Arran Stark is the head chef behind the stove on a nightly basis invigorating each dish with his passion for the culinary arts. The kitchen staff includes a talented group of up and coming culinarians training under Arran. Each brings their own individual skills and experience to the food.
Our Food Community - Since each dish is a work of art we honor our farmer and fisher friends who cultivate, gather, and catch our palette of flavors. We strive to support our food community as it nourishes us. We buy from local suppliers, supporting their livelihoods and preserving their crafts. We strive to make Brassica Restaurant a place where people meet and build community around food. The menu changes weekly but here is sample Winter Menu and Spring Menu.
I had dinner last night at a new Restaurant in Port Townsend. Brassica, which uses the same space as Laurette's Café on Friday and Saturday evenings, serves an excellent fixed price three course dinner. I've eaten there a few times and each time the menu was different. Chef Arran Stark sources local ingredients from the farmers and ranchers on the Olympic Peninsula.
Each meal always starts with a brief "amuse". Last night it was a chicken liver mousse on a crostini with foraged miners lettuce. Sometimes the starter course is a soup or a salad. This time it was a tart made with local nettles and Port Townsend Creamery cheese. My main course was a potato-wrapped ling cod served with a bean cassolette and the last of the season Brussels sprouts. The dessert was his "riff" on chocolate with a trio containing a truffle, a fig and chocolate tart, and candied fennel and figs.
While I eat out a lot and cook professionally I always try and find something that could be done differently or a bit better. Not possible with this meal as it was truly excellent.
Wine selections are limited but good. Attractive space and good service. Really worth a try.
-- Posted on Google Reviews Web Site
Our wine list features Oregon and Washington wines with a few choice international selections. The list includes vintners from Port Townsend and Whidbey Island. Our goal is to offer a core list of quality wines at a good price along with a few exceptional selections for special occasions. All the wine on our list was selected to pair with the style of food we serve. The wine list is always changing. We welcome you to bring wine from your own collection - there is a $20 corkage fee.
Brassica is short for Brassicaceae, the cabbage family, which includes kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and many greens. We chose the name for our restaurant because Brassicas grow year around in our area and the region is one of the best places, and for some species one of the only places, to grow vigorous healthy seed. Loss of farmland in our area represents a loss of potential Brassica seed production land for the world. To us it is symbolic of our dedication to eating localy grown food and protecting local farmland. We also like the sound of it! The Brassica flower, seen in our logo, has four petals in the form of a cross.