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Cheese Plate     18

Today's trio of cheese:

***Birchrun Blue*** (Birchrun Hills Farm, Chester Springs, PA)

 * Cow, Raw *

Semi-soft blue cheese. Mild, sweet, and peppery. Creamy with delicate blue cheese flavors.

 ***Highlander*** (Calkins Creamery, Honesdale, PA)

 * Cow, Raw *

Baby Gouda. Semi hard. Named for the farm, Highlander is their creamiest cheese. It is encased in red cheesewax, then aged a minimum of 60 days.

***Noblette***   (Calkins Creamery, Honesdale, PA)

 * Cow, Pasteurized *

Soft, fresh pastured baby brie. Petite and dainty, like an elegant and more interesting cousin of brie. Notes of herbs and mushrooms, with a buttery finish.

Served with house-made jams, Green Meadow Farm raw honey & seasonal fruit, our house-made pickles & pickled mustard seed.

 

Chicken Fingers     12

House-made, lager-battered, golden fried chicken fingers.  Served with mild barbecue sauce

 

Chicken Liver Mousse     12

with pickled mustard seeds, house-made jam, pickled apple, chives, and toasted focaccia from Metropolitan Bakery.

 

Lamb Meatballs     11

3 lamb meatballs, cauliflower puree, kimchi tahini, cucumber and onion relish

 

Lion's Mane Mushroom Cake     15

This umami-laden mushroom patty (lion's mane & combs tooth mushrooms from Mycopolitan) resembles a crab cake in appearance and texture, but the flavor is all earth. Pan seared and served over a bed of local, lightly dressed baby arugula. Topped with our samurai sauce made with house mayo, sambal, and créme fraiche.

 

Pommes Frites     6

Our award winning fresh-cut, double-fried frites. Served with Monk's world-famous bourbon mayonnaise for dipping

 

Smoked Trout Dip     11

Smoked trout spread topped with caper and onion relish. Served with sliced baguette

 

Soup of the Day     8

Roasted butternut squash topped with granola and créme fraiche (Vegetarian/Not Vegan) Granola contains walnuts, pistachios and pumpkin seeds

 

Spanish Flies     15

Incredibly hot chicken wings w/chipotle pepper sauce that are not for the faint of heart. They aren't those wimpy 'buffalo wings' - these babies are incendiary!  HOT! HOT! HOT! Did I mention that they're HOT? We do offer barbecue sauce for the less adventurous. Served with a side order of our famous frites

 

Salads

Baby Green Salad     7

Organic greens with our Monk's Flemish Sour Ale vinaigrette
ADD Goat Cheese for 3  ADD Chicken Breast 9

 

Caesar     9

Romaine Lettuce tossed in our tangy caesar dressing and topped with croutons
ADD Chicken Breast 9

 

Monk's Duck Salad     21

Organic greens with duck breast (grilled medium/medium rare), goat cheese, spicy walnuts & Monk's Flemish Sour Ale soaked craisins *contains walnuts

 

Winter Salad     16

Local kale and spinach, pickled kohlrabi, Badger Flame beets, Cara-Cara orange, goat cheese, citrus dressing and toasted pine nuts

 

Mussels

All Mussels served with Pommes Frites (about a pound and a half of mussels per pot)    22

Ghent    

Ommegang Hennepin, fumet, parsley, caramelized leeks, bacon, bleu cheese & garlic

 

Monks    

Allagash White, fumet, garlic & parsley

 

Red Light    

Belgian golden ale, fumet, toasted chili de arbol broth, parsley and garlic *contains soy

 

Thai Curry    

Monk's Flemish Sour, fumet, Thai red curry, basil, garlic & coconut milk

 

Burgers

All are served on a buttery Baker Street Bread brioche and bottom buns have our home-made mayo (contains eggs). Burger, Chicken Breast & Vegan Burger. (Vegan bun available upon request.) Served with Pommes Frites or Side Salad.

Burger     18

 

Chicken Breast     16

 

Vegan Burger     16

 

Burger Topping

Bruges    

sauteed mushrooms & gruyere

 

Brussels    

bacon & cheddar

 

Cheddy    

Cheddy Topper cheese from Vermont Farmstead (made with Alchemist Heady Topper) & pickled red onion

 

Ghent    

broccoli rabe & cheddar 

 

Monk's    

caramelized leeks & bleu cheese

 

Trappist    

goat cheese, lettuce, tomato & raw onion

 

Sandwiches

Duck Salad Sandwich     17

Our award winning salad served sandwich style on an Amoroso roll with light house mayo. Baby greens with grilled duck breast, goat cheese, spicy walnuts and Monk's Flemish Sour Ale soaked craisins. Served with a side baby green salad *contains nuts

 

Pulled Pork Sandwich     16

Spicy pork slow cooked in Belgian brown ale, served with slaw and BBQ sauce on an Amoroso roll with light house mayo. Served with a side baby green salad. *contains soy

 

Seitan Cheese Steak     15

Michael's seitan (wheat meat) sauteed with onions, mushrooms and gruyere cheese. Served on an Amoroso roll with light house mayo. Served with a side baby green salad (VEGETARIAN) NOW AVAILABLE: Daiya dairy-free "mozzarella" upon request

 

Spicy Italian Sausage Sandwich     15

A spicy Italian pork sausage served with pickled peppers, onions, and house-made mustard on a long roll. Side baby green salad.

 

Main Plates

Butternut Squash Bolognese     18

Rotini pasta, butternut squash, ground beef & pork, mirepoix & pickled Habanada peppers. Topped with freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano.

 

Roasted Half Chicken     25

Half a roast chicken, charred broccollini, duck fat roasted blue potatoes, chicken jus

 

Sautéed Veggies     16

Broccoli, romanesco, brussels sprouts, turnips, and red onion lightly sautéed with spinach and served over a roasted sweet potato purée. Dressed with a reduced balsamic vinaigrette and garnished with pickled carrots.  (VEGAN/GLUTEN FREE)

 

Steak Frites Salad     21

5 oz. flat iron steak marinated with roasted garlic and herbs de Provence then grilled and served over seasonal greens with our award winning pommes frites

 

Dessert

Apple Raspberry     12

fresh sliced apples baked over a raspberry filling in a sweet pastry shell

 

Key Lime Tart     12

fresh Key Lime curd, local whipped cream, sweet pastry shell

 

Pear Pistachio     12

poached pears and crushed pistachios in a sweet pastry shell

 

Takeaway Beer - All Cans

Beer

Single Can Four Pack Six Pack
Allagash White (ME) 6 30
Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose 12oz (CA) 6 30
Collective Arts Guava Gose 12oz (Canada) 7
Collective Arts Ransack the Universe NEIPA 16oz (Canada) 7
Crooked Stave Blues Berry 9
Crooked Stave Sour Rose 12oz (CO) 7 25
De Dolle XL (40th Anniversary Ale) 12oz (Belgium) 10
Dock Street Rye IPA (Philadelphia) 7 25
Gaffel Kolsch 16.9oz (Germany) 7
Hitachino Yuzu Lager 11.8oz (Japan) 10 35
Jever Pilsner 16.9oz (Germany) 7 25
Kasteel Nitro Porter (Belgium) 8 30
Kasteel Rouge 16oz (Belgium) 10 35
Nomad Freshies Salt & Pepper Gose 12oz (Australia) 9 35
OEC Trifaldi Oatmeal Stout 16oz (CT) 7 25
Rodenbach Classic 16.9oz (Belgium) 7.5 28
Schlenkerla Helles Smoked Lager 16oz (Germany) 10 35

Cider

Single Can Four Pack Six Pack
Downeast Original Cider 12oz (MA) 6 30
Frecon Cidre Peach 7 26
Frecon Early Man (PA) 7 26
Ploughman Birdwatcher 12oz (PA) 7.5 28
Ploughman Dornick Cider (PA) 7.50 28
Ploughman Lupulin Lummox dry cider w/hops 12oz (PA) 7.5 28
Ploughman Stayman Winesap cider 12oz (PA) 7.5 28
Sagardoa Gurutzeta Basque cider 12oz (Spain) 9 35

Non-Alcoholic

Single Can Four Pack Six Pack
Bitburger Ride 0.0% 6
Collective Arts Emerald Dark (Non-Alcoholic) (Canada) 6
Collective Arts IPA (Non-Alcoholic) 12oz (Canada) 6
De Halve Maan Zot Sport (Non-Alcoholic) (Belgium) 8
Guinness "Draught" Zero 6.5
Sierra Nevada Golden (Non-Alcoholic) 5.5
Sierra Nevada IPA (Non-Alcoholic) 5.5