Linn Street Cafe in Iowa City, IA

Smoked Trout Pate

$10

A linn street original menu item, with daikon radish tossed in a lemon dressing and served with stone wheat crackers

Crab Cakes

$10

Cornmeal crusted with carrot puree and sweet pickled celery

Walnut Crusted Baked Brie

$10

Served with tart cherry chutney and a bourbon gastrique

Mediterranean Trio

$12

Hummus, olive-artichoke heart tapenade and sundried tomato-feta spread served with house made grilled flatbread

Potstickers

$8

Filled with pork tenderloin, cabbage, shitake mushrooms, carrots with a ginger-soy dipping sauce

Soup of the Day

$4

Selection of hot or chilled soup

Lobster Bisque Langoustine, Chives

$5

House Salad

$3

Organic field greens with choice of balsamic vinaigrette or maytag blue cheese dressing

Roasted Beet Salad

$6

Organic greens, roasted beets, maytag blue cheese, balsamic vinaigrette

Strawberry Salad

$6

Organic greens, milton prairie breeze cheese, pistachio, champagne vinaigrette

Iowa Beef Tenderloin

$27

Served with sauteed seasonal vegetables, chive mashed potatoes, and a cabernet demi glace

Pan Roasted Iowa Pork Tenderloin

$24

Crisp tarragon polenta, sauteed asparagus, local mushrooms, and a tarragon cream

Duck Three Ways

$26

Maple leaf farms pan seared duck breast, confit duck with caramelized onion and local mushrooms, duck cracklings, blueberry red wine reduction, mashed cauliflower

Summer Penne

$19

Penne pasta tossed with local sauteed summer squash, bell peppers, red onion, bacon, ineichen tomatoes, and mariposa farms basil in a light garlic-olive oil sauce

Pecan Crusted Chicken

$19

Served with sauteed seasonal vegetables, chive mashed potatoes and a dijon cream reduction

Cornmeal Crusted Trout

$26

With local shiitake mushrooms, grilled peach, sauteed sweetcorn and a lemon-basil vinaigrette

Seared New Zealand Lamb Rack

$29

Served with quinoa salad, broccoli, chimichurri sauce, creme fraiche

Seared Diver Scallops

$27

With warm summer vegetable-pearl cous cous salad tossed in a vanilla vinaigrette and drizzled with a paprika syrup

Grilled Angus Ribeye

$28

Served with roasted garlic white bean puree, mole, avocado butter and tortilla hay

Ice Cream

$5

Sorbet

$5

Cheesecake

$6

Creme Brulee

$6

Flourless Chocolate Torte

$7

Fruit and Cheese Plate

Featured Desserts

Smoked Trout Pate

$10

A linn street original menu item, with daikon radish tossed in a lemon dressing and served with stone wheat crackers

Crab Cakes

$10

Cornmeal crusted with carrot puree and sweet pickled celery

Walnut Crusted Baked Brie

$10

Served with tart cherry chutney and a bourbon gastrique

Roasted Beet Salad

$6

Organic greens, roasted beets, maytag blue cheese and balsamic vinaigrette

Strawberry Salad

$6

Organic greens, strawberries, milton prairie breeze cheese, pistachios and champaign vinaigrette

Salmon Salad

$11

Organic greens, sesame crusted salmon, carrots, red onion and broccoli with a mango-orange vinaigrette

Chefs' Salad

$11

Organic greens, turkey, hard boiled egg, red onions, asparagus, focaccia croutons, parmesan and chive vinaigrette

Pecan Crusted Chicken

$12

Organic greens, pecan crusted chicken breast, red onions, carrots, tomatoes and peach-dijon vinaigrette

Soup of the Day

$4

Selection of hot or chilled soup

Lobster Bisque

$5

Summer Penne

$12

Penne pasta tossed with local sauteed summer squash, bell peppers, red onion, bacon, ineichen tomatoes, and mariposa farms basil in a light garlic-olive oil sauce

Duck Tacos

$11

Maple leaf farms duck confit, local mushrooms, caramelized onions, mole coloradito and crème fraiche

Turkey

$10

Roasted turkey with spinach, brie and cherry-apple chutney on wheatberry bread

Salmon

$10

Seared salmon topped with olive tapenade and spinach on herb focaccia bread

Reuben

$10

Pastrami, sauerkraut, swiss and homemade 1000 island dressing on grilled marbled rye

Creme Brulee

$6

Traditional vanilla custard, burnt sugar

Flourless Chocolate Torte

$7

Chocolate syrup, raspberry coulis

Cheesecake

$6