Lazy Ox Menu is Here!

Josef Centeno's Lazy Ox Canteen is opening its doors next week (or the week after, you know how these things go), and the menu is prepped and ready to go on his website. Highlights - at least for me - include the chicken livers with whole-grain mustard and guanciale, the charred octopus with pickled shallots, corona beans, garlic rapii and calamari vinaigrette, and the grilled beef petite tender with kennebec frites and warm marrow butter on toast.

This weekend, the chef will be getting inventory and prepping. All of the inspections are done, with the exception of the health department who comes tomorrow. The staff will spend the next week getting trained and the chef will break in his new kitchen, including the woodfire oven. The tentative opening date is December 17th, which, in a cruel twist of fate, is the same night I have reservations at LudoBites. Then again, I could have bigger problems than having to wait a day for Lazy Ox while feasting on Chef Ludo's magnificent creations, right?