Fresh Menu Items Springing Up

Here’s what fresh farm produce local chefs are excited about for their Bay Area spring menus:

Chef Kuzia-Carmel

Camper

Menlo Park

“We are really looking forward to the first new crops of artichokes, asparagus from Zuckerman Family Farms in the Sacramento Delta, and all the new crops of mushrooms from the first few weeks of March.”

Chef Banagan

Porta Blu

Menlo Park 

“I’m very excited about lots of salads that we’re doing. We’re featuring County Line Harvest up in the Petaluma area; I’m excited to put them on the menu!”

Chef Short

Meso

San Jose at Santana Row

“I love all the late winter and spring items—English peas, radishes, baby carrots, fiddlehead ferns and miner’s lettuce. I’ve taught my children to recognize and eat miner’s lettuce when we walk through the forest.”

Claytonia perfoliata
(miner’s lettuce) 

Photo adapted from Wikimedia Commons