Start your New Year's Eve celebration at your friendly, neighborhood trattoria, Panzanella! New Year's Eve - View the menu here Thursday, December 31, 5:30-9:30 pm On this evening, we'll be offering a list of deliciously festive specials, in addition to our (slightly abbreviated) dinner menu. >>> more

Cremant du Jura Brut-Comte Holiday Hours

New Bar Specials Gallery

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New Year's Eve con't

Starters Soup: Black-eyed Pea Soup with collards and ham hock Salad: Baby Lettuces with crumbled gorgonzola, red onion and mandarin slices in a fig-shallot dressing Appetizer: Baked Oysters served with WSM ciabatta crostini Entrées Beef Tenderloin in a red wine & cherry reduction sauce served with sweet potato & kale gratin and asparagus Saffron Risotto with seafood: sautéed mussels, shrimp, scallops and triggerfish with a sweet tomato and basil sauce served over saffron-seasoned risotto Desserts Chocolate Mousse served with raspberry sauce Sgroppin: lemon sorbet served with prosecco and vodka

Cremant du Jura Brut-Comte

To add a bit more sparkle to our New Year's Eve celebration, we'll be featuring one of our favorite inexpensive bubblies from France, Cremant du Jura Brut. Rich, luscious and always perfect as an aperitif, this outstanding sparkling wine also deserves to be taken seriously at the dinner table. Hubert Clavelin and his two sons have vineyards in the Côte du Jura, a small range of mountains about 30 miles to the east of the Côte D'Or. They've planted Chardonnay on a parcel of very high limestone soil, and that is the source of their sparkling wine, Brut Comte. Their method is identical to that used to make champagne; and the expertise and care is evident in the fine quality of the Brut Comte—tasting more like a lesser, true champagne than a sparkling wine from Burgundy. At $7 by the glass, and $34 by the bottle, this is an amazing value in a beautifully made wine.

Holiday Hours

We'll keep our regular Thursday Lunch and Dinner schedule on the 31st, but extend dinner service by 1/2 an hour to 9:30 pm. As always, we're accepting reservations for parties of 6 or more. On Friday, New Year's Day, we'll be closed for lunch and reopen with our regular Friday dinner hours: 5:30 - 10 pm

New Bar Specials

Warm up from the inside out with one of these delicious drinks! Apple Cider Side Car: made with bourbon, local apple cider and triple sec, served straight up in a chilled glass Espresso Martini: An espressso shot, shaken with vodka, kahlua and white creme de cacao and served straight up in a chilled glass Stallone Italiano: Vodka, Campari, sweet vermouth and a dash of bitters, served on the rocks Caribbean Vacation: White rum and Malibu coconut rum, with orange and pinapple juices, on the rocks with a cherry and orange garnish

Gallery

New Exhibit: 'Visceral Depths' new works by Jacques Menache Now - February 8, 2010 Jacques Menache was born in Paris, France and came to Carrboro in 1969. He finished college at NC Central University in Durham, and graduated with a Master's in Fine Arts from UNC Chapel Hill in 1973. In 1974, after a year as an instructor at UNC, Jacques founded The ArtsCenter in downtown Carrboro and served as the Executive Director until 1988. A retrospective of Jacques' artwork was first shown at his restaurant, El Chilango, in 2000. A second retrospective was exhibited at Panzanella in 2006. The title of this show, 'Visceral Depths' comes from Jacques' long time interest in surgery, biology and electron photo-microscopy. This new work combines various materials and techniques such as acrylic, encaustic, collage, assemblage and drawing.