Chef Paul Turano recenly opened an American Bistro style restaurant, Cook, in Newtonville, and on Monday, Dec. 2 the restaurant will begin serving lunch.
The lunch menu at Cook, located at 825 Washington St. in Newton, will include a variety of dishes. Starters and salads including: udon noodles with peanuts and ponzu ($10), kale salad with brussels sprouts, parmesan, hazelnuts, verjus ($10) and shrimp tacos with avocado, red onion, aji crema ($5 each).
There are three categories of main dishses on the lunch menu including sandwiches, flatbreads and entrees. Sandwiches include grilled cheese with tomato, herbs and greens ($12) and lobster sliders ($13). Some Flatbread choices are wild mushroom flatbread with fontina, ricotta, caramelized onions and truffle ($14) and chorizo flatbread with goat cheese, poblano pepper and fingerling chips ($12). Lunch entrees include bolognese with veal, pork, beef, mascarpone, herbs ($13) or winter vegetable lasagna, zucchini, kabocha squash, caramelized onions, mushrooms ($12).
Cook will be open from lunch Monday-Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Find out more about Cook and the lunch menu at www.cooknewton.com.
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