Spring Vegetables Have Sprung

the tablehopper | 11:49 am | March 13, 2009 | Foodie 411, Happy Hour, Union Square

Chez Papa Resto

Chez Papa Resto is continuing the restaurant’s monthly changing four-course prix-fixe menu (plus an amuse bouche) with a March celebration of Delta asparagus and Périgord truffles. The March prix-fixe menu is available Thursday through Saturday for $55, with an optional wine pairing for an additional $35.

Executive chef David Bazirgan’s March menu includes an amuse bouche; an asparagus trio: flan with prosciutto, grilled salad and soup with black truffle emulsion; sautéed skate wing with pancetta-wrapped asparagus, artichokes barigoule and a brown butter hollandaise; roasted California squab with hen of the woods mushrooms, sweet onions, white asparagus and squab-truffle jus; and black truffle soufflé with sauternes anglaise.

And for those who are working or shopping downtown, Chez Papa Resto has a happy hour Monday through Friday from 5pm–7pm, with $6 cocktails and bar menu bites such as baked goat cheese with onion jam and crostini; grilled lamb chop with ratatouille; and tuna tartare with cucumber and Espelette crackers.

• 4 Mint Plaza (formerly Jessie St.) between Mission and Market near Fifth St., 415-546-4134.

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