Don't Miss Chance To Dine At Summer Cafe At Santa Rosa Jr College

SANTA ROSA, CA – Culinary students at Santa Rosa Junior College are hard at work at the Culinary Café and Bakery during the summer session, preparing and serving seasonal lunch menus and also selling freshly baked pastries, cookies and artisan breads made by students in the school's Baking and Pastry Program.

The Café at the B. Robert Burdo Culinary Arts Center is open to the public Wednesdays through Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. serving salads, soups, sandwiches, pizzas, entrees and desserts -- mostly organic and locally sourced when possible -- along with Russian River Valley wines produced by SRJC’s Shone Farm Winery.

Recent menu highlights included: stone-hearth pizza with duck confit, goat cheese, pesto and reduced balsamic; seafood pasta with shrimp, crawfish tails, calamari, tuna, tomato, garlic, white wine, chives and cream; and a grass-fed beef burger with Jack cheese, bacon jam, red onion, tomato, and lettuce on a soft roll.

The SRJC Bakery is open 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays with its baked goods, offerings which change weekly to give students ample opportunities to refine their skills and can include tarts and pies with seasonal fruits and a variety of specialty cakes.

Between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., muffins, scones and Bella Rosa coffee drinks can be enjoyed in the Café Rose dining room while patrons watching the culinary students prepping for the day's lunch service.

Café menu items, breads, pastries and desserts also can be purchased for take-out until 2 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays. Gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan selections are available both in the Bakery and on the Café menu.

But don't delay in visiting as the Café and Bakery are only open for the summer semester with the final day set for Friday, Aug. 10.

The B. Robert Burdo Culinary Arts Center is located at 1670 Mendocino Ave. at Carr Avenue, directly across from the Santa Rosa campus, and more info about the Culinary Café can be viewed here and the rotating menus can be found here.

Café reservations are highly recommended and may be made by calling 707-522-2796.

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