Avanti Cafe

Avanti Cafe
259 E. 17th St.
Costa Mesa, CA. 92627
Phone: 949.548.2224
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Lunch $10 / Dinner for TWO $30!

Lunch $10
(a $17 value, rockin’ 41% savings)

ALL NEW All Delicious Build Your Own Pizza Lunch
Choose from 28 pizza topping items!

Organic whole grain house made Roman style focaccia crust

Avanti finest quality natural toppings house made

Any four toppings for your pizza, a drink
& your choice of one of our FAMOUS Avanti cookies 

Top flight beverages include all natural gourmet sodas, Portola coffee roasters hot or iced coffee, Organic & fair trade hot or ice tea selections.

Add a draft beer for $5

Additional pizza toppings $1.95 each

 Gluten free on our signature Mediterranean garbanzo flatbread + drink $15





Dinner FOR TWO for $30 !

Appetizer
EACH choose one

Mediterranean garbanzo flat bread
garbanzo flour, onion & herb oven roasted flat bread roasted cippolini onion, cumin tomato sauce,
pepperoncini & olives d’amour
Avanti finest quality natural toppings house made

Peanut & pumpkin hush puppies
three baked wholesome hush puppies
served w/ tangy lime napa & red cabbage slaw

Entree
EACH choose one

Organic roasted polenta
house made high protein organic polenta baked w/ roasted apple, organic kale & chard &
served w/ fire roasted tomato sauce & spinach arugula pesto

Stacked portobello mushroom
Avanti signature roasted portobello mushroom stacked w/ falafel crusted eggplant, mixed vegetables,
magic garlic spread & Avanti nut cheez
served w/ tangy lime napa & red cabbage slaw

Dessert
EACH choose one

Moist & spicy ginger cake
w/ sour cherry compote & honey scented ice cream 
garnished w/ crystallized ginger. Ask about the vegan option!

Individual Carrot Cake
Petite-sized moist and spicy classic carrot cake.
Festooned w/ cream cheese icing, toasted walnuts and candied carrot.

Add a draft beer for $5 each
& Wines by the bottle & glass specially priced all week

Chef Mark Cleveland

 
Question: How long have you been a chef?
Answer: All my life in spirit & professionally for several decades now.
 
Question: How long have you been at this restaurant?
Answer: We're coming up on Avanti Cafe's 7th anniversary in April of 2012
 
Question: Who or what inspired you to become a chef?
Answer: A lifelong love of good natural fresh and seasonal food that came w/ my family of Italian heritage
 
Question: What do you enjoy most about your profession?
Answer: Every day, every time you pick up a knife, creativity is involved
 
Question: When you’re not in the kitchen what are you doing?
Answer: Growing chilis & herbs, film festival geek & yoga every day
 
Question: What is your most popular dish?
Answer:  Our soups are always unique and inspired by what is growing at the farm each week.  And our daily specials are great fun to make and photograph
 
Question: Your last meal on Earth would be??
Answer: I'll have a very light breakfast, black coffee and a side car.  Hurry my tray darling, Auntie needs fuel.
 
Question: What's your favorite item on the Restaurant Week Menu?
Answer:  Our homemade organic polenta made w/ organic whey created in our cheese making process, is my favorite.  And there's both an appetizer and an entree on the dinner menu.

Chef Tanya Fuqua

 
Question: How long have you been a chef?
Answer: Coming up on 20 years
 
Question: How long have you been at this restaurant?
Answer: We're coming up on Avanti Cafe's 7th anniversary in April of 2012
 
Question: Who or what inspired you to become a chef?
Answer: My mother- most definitely. She was the queen of using the freshest ingredients and taught me the importance of cooking w/ love.
 
Question: What do you enjoy most about your profession?
Answer: I like being able to walk into the kitchen and asking myself " what do I want to make today"
 
Question: When you’re not in the kitchen what are you doing?
Answer: Traveling w/ my hubby ( not Mark) -running, and reading
 
Question: What is your most popular dish?
Answer:  Our cookies...they've been flying out of the restaurant since day 1
 
Question: Your last meal on Earth would be??
Answer:   " Four fried chickens and dry white toast...and a coke!"
 
Question: What's your favorite item on the Restaurant Week Menu?
Answer:  Our build your own pizza menu. You get to pick from dozens of delicious, healthy pizza toppings.
Who doesn't love that?