New Opera Bistro Lunch Menu

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Sandwiches Our grilled sandwiches served on your choice of: Ciabatta Bun, Focaccio, Whole-wheat Bread, Gluten-Free Bread, or Spinach Wrap. Dress your sandwich in either Sun dried tomato-flavored Olive oil or Pesto Mayonnaise. Chef’s note: When in season and available we only use local and organic ingredients. Caprese Mozzarella Cheese, BBQ-marinated Peppers, Eggplant + Mushrooms Roma Natural Ham, Prosciutto Ham, Zucchini, Gouda Cheese + Tomato Bolcelli Grilled Lamb Patty with Mint, Apple Chutney + Spinach Caesar Grilled Lemon Chicken Breast, freshly-shaved Parmegiano Reggiano Cheese + Romaine Lettuce Tosca Smoked Atlantic Salmon, Red Onions, Lettuce, lightly-flavored with Horseradish

9.95 12.50 12.00 11.50 12.50

Salads Caesar Crisp Romaine Lettuce tossed with Sussex Smoked Bacon, Parmeggiano-Reggiano Cheese + Herbed Croutons Tuscany Warm Goat Cheese lightly crusted with Maple Syrup and Toasted Pine Nuts served over Welted Radicchio + Spring Greens Maritime Fusion Baby Spinach topped with our Bay of Fundy Crab Cakes and tossed with Wasabi Foam Summer Beat Braised Beet Salad, Cashews, Blue Cheese + Maple Balsamic Dressing

9.50

13.00 13.95 13.50

Dressings: Dress your salad in either Balsamic Vinaigrette or Garlicky Orange + Lime Vinaigrette. Bedeckings: Grilled Lemon Chicken Breast Smoked Atlantic Salmon Bay of Fundy Lobster (2 oz)

5.50 6.95 8.50

For Lovers of the Sea Daily Seafood Soup Bay of Fundy Lobster BLT 3 oz Lobster Meat, Lettuce, Sussex Bacon, Tomatoes served on an Italian Bun Atlantic Double Salmon Burger 4 oz Salmon Patty layered with: Smoked Salmon, Onions, Capers + Blueberry Compote Center Beamer Wrap with Goat Cheese, Crabmeat, Avocado, Cranberries + Walnuts Chef’s Meze Plate: Four little dishes in One Cup of Seafood Soup, Crab Cake, Bacon-wrapped Scallop + Smoked Salmon

10.50 13.95 13.00 13.00 18.00

Axel’s Specials for the Day

Margaret’s Homemade Desserts

Each Day Axel creates mouth-watering market fresh specials to add to the menu: Daily soup with sliced bread: Reg 6.50 Mug 4.95 Monday: Risotto Tuesday: Seafood Wednesday: Pasta Thursday: German Specialty Friday: Stew

Opera’s desserts are award winning and baked by Margaret herself right here in the Bistro! Choosing one from among Margaret’s bevy of delicious, calorie-free desserts* is no cakewalk. (*‘Calorie-free’: see Begner’s Dictionary of Wishful Thinking) Ask about our New Brunswick’s ‘Best Cheese’ Selection as well as our specialty coffees.

Opera Bistro, owned and operated by Margaret and Axel Begner, opened in July 2005. In 2006 they opened pati-oh!, Opera’s outside patio behind their restaurant in the Centerbeam Courtyard. In 2008 they launched “the Phantom” Opera’s holding bar on the upper level of their restaurant. Opera Bistro has been recognized and featured on the Food Network : Opening Soon; En Route Magazine: 25 restaurants to look for in 2007; Progress Magazine’s “best restaurant in New Brunswick + best desserts New Brunswick”; Wine Spectator: “one of the 100 best restaurants in Canada”; warmly reviewed in Telegraph Journal, here newspaper, Rogers TV CBC TV + Radio. For Take Away, Catering + Reservations: 506.642.2822 www.operabistro.com