Arugula Bistro & Bar Menu

Welcome to Arugula Bistro & Bar, where French-Mediterranean cuisine comes alive! Located in West Hartford, CT, this charming bistro seamlessly blends fresh ingredients with creative culinary techniques.

The menu is a vibrant tapestry showcasing excellent options for everyone, including pescatarians, vegans, and vegetarians. Start your culinary journey with their Fromage Plate, featuring exquisite cheeses like Brillat Savarin and Cacio di Bosco Black Truffle Pecorino. The PullApart Garlic Bread and Avocado, Spinach and Artichoke Dip are delightful mezze that prepare your palate for a memorable main course.

For dessert, indulge in the Lemon Curd Filled Butter Cake or the tantalizing Chocolate Voodoo Cake. With an atmosphere that’s intimate yet inviting, Arugula Bistro & Bar not only delivers amazing food but also exceptional service. You’ll leave feeling fulfilled and eager to return!

Fromages

Fromage Plate

The plate includes Brillat Savarin, a lush, triple cream, buttercream icing texture, France Rogue Creamery's smokey blue. The second cheese is Cacio di Bosco Black Truffle Pecorino, truffle shavings infuse this Italian cheese, creating a perfect balance of nutty, sweet caramelized flavor. The third cheese is Cricketer Farm Extra Mature Cheddar, an English cheese aged for 15 months, full, robust flavor. Finally, the fourth cheese is a Dutch Gouda, aged 5 years with caramel, butterscotch, and cashew flavors.

$19.00

Pull-Apart Garlic Bread

Topped with grated ricotta salata.

$4.00

Mixed Olives

Marinated mushrooms and mozzarella marinated in rosemary, garlic, and lemon.

$4.00

Onion Rings

Smoky aioli dipping sauce.

$7.00

Avocado, Spinach and Artichoke Dip

Pita chips.

$9.00

Manousha

Pita painted with za'atar (an addictive blend of thyme, sumac, and sesame seeds that create a fresh lemon flavor authentic to Lebanese cuisine), baked, and served with red onion, tomato, cucumber salad, and a yogurt-cucumber dipping sauce.

$9.00

Middle Eastern Sampler

Hummus, mohamara, and labani (house made yogurt cheese), and grilled pita. Lebanese favorites.

$14.00

Falafel, Zaatar and Olives

Falafel, hummus, marinated olives, cucumber, tomato, onion salad, and zaatar flatbread.

$15.00

Mezze

Salads

Baby Greens Salad

Mixed greens, walnuts, and blue cheese. As simple as it gets!

$11.00

Fattoush Salad

Lebanese bread salad. Tomatoes, feta, cucumbers, torn pita, radish, chickpeas, capers, black olives, and red onions.

$13.00

Caesar Salad

Roasted red peppers, radicchio, polenta crouton, and Parmesan cheese.

$13.00

Arugula, Radicchio, Watercress and Artichoke Hearts Salad

Oven-roasted tomatoes, and a shower of ricotta salata.

$13.00

Kale and Brussel Sprouts Salad

Radicchio, toasted almonds, manchego cheese, and dried cherries.

$14.00

Grains & roasted vegetables...you can taste the season

Roasted mushrooms, butternut squash, green beans & grains (kamut/wheatberry), finished w/greens, fennel & pumpkin seeds

$16.00

Quinoa, roasted potato & beet

roasted mushrooms, beets, marinated artichoke hearts, green beans, roasted cubed potatoes, red onions, quinoa, spinach

$16.00

Bowls

Entrees

Crispy Duck Leg Confit

House made. Served with diced truffled potatoes and greens, garnished with a shallot jam.

$27.00

Grilled Bistro Steak

Creekstone Farms, Kansas, halal. Marinated and grilled steak, fries, and baby greens, served with truffle aioli.

$27.00

Filet Mignon of Tuna

Seared sushi-grade ahi tuna on a bed of coriander-scented sauteed baby spinach, and oven roasted tomatoes, finished with a sesame-ginger glaze. Rare or medium-rare only.

$27.00

Atlantic Salmon

Pan-roasted, served on roasted potato plank, topped with a mushroom, tomato, artichoke, spinach, and chickpea melange tossed with a warm sherry shallot vinaigrette, and garnished with grilled asparagus.

$27.00

Israeli Couscous

This dish lends itself to a bit of spice. Can be made without chicken, halal house-made chicken confit, pulled off the bone, and a melange of mushrooms, zucchini, red peppers, and spinach, in a light curry vinaigrette.

$22.00

Mediterranean Fish Fry

Cumin and panko-dusted fried flounder served alongside greens, fries, and a house-made horseradish tartar sauce.

$22.00

Sesame Udon Noodles

Thick and wheat-flour noodles. Thank you mike le! Sauteed with broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, edamame beans, red and white cabbage, scallions, sesame seeds, ginger and soy sauce.

$18.00

Steak

Creekstone farms 15 premium black angus beef, Kansas. Halal grilled, marinated bistro steak, blue cheese, onion marmalade, roasted red peppers, garlic aioli & watercress, wrapped in a grilled pita.

$15.00

Fried Chicken Cutlet

Fried chicken cutlet, (halal), (can be made without speck) layered with speck, roasted red peppers, provolone, pesto, arugula, on a Portuguese roll.

$15.00

Arugula Burger

Creekstone farms 15 premium black angus beef, Kansas, halal topped with muenster, roasted tomatoes, grilled red onions & a smoky aioli.

$15.00

All American Burger

Creekstone farms 15 premium black angus beef, Kansas....halal sherried bacon jam, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, p's housemade pickle.

$15.00

Burgers & Chicken

Crispy Flatbreads

Brown-Butter Lobster Flatbread

Corn and shiitake mushroom, herbed bechamel, burrata & asiago cheese, scallions.

$20.00

Rossa Flatbread

No cheese. Savory, house-made tomato sauce, onion marmalade, black olives, artichoke hearts, capers, finished with arugul.

$19.00

Pesto Shrimp Flatbread

Sauteed baby shrimp, burrata cheese, and roasted red peppers.

$19.00

Burrata Flatbread

Burrata (creamy mozzarella, meaning butter) cheese, speck (smoked pepper cured prosciutto) crushed tomatoes, and basil.

$19.00

Sweet Italian Sausage and Fig Flatbread

Italian sausage, fresh fig compote, and blue cheese.

$19.00

Duck Confit and Chorizo Sausage Flatbread

Duck confit, pulled off the bone, smoked mozzarella, chorizo sausage, and mushrooms baked and finished with greens dressed in a truffle vinaigrette.

$19.00

Baby Shrimp Flatbread

Sauteed baby shrimp, spinach, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella.

$19.00

Prosciutto and Artichoke Heart Flatbread

Provolone cheese and artichoke hearts baked and topped with prosciutto, basil, and lemon oil.

$19.00

Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese Flatbread

Goat cheese, baked and topped with smoked salmon and finished with a caper-cucumber-red onion relish.

$19.00

Chicken Confit Flatbread

Chicken confit, halal, pulled off the bone, tomatoes, burrata, finished with arugula, and a balsamic reduction.

$19.00

Greek Flatbread

Spinach, roasted tomatoes, feta, red onion, black olives, pepperoncini, served with minted yogurt or cucumber sauce.

$19.00

Fig and Asparagus Flatbread

Fresh fig compote, blue cheese, and asparagus.

$19.00

4 Cheese and Artichoke Flatbread

Provolone, blue cheese, mozzarella, Muenster, and marinated artichokes, finished with truffle oil.

$19.00

Curried Eggplant Flatbread

Roasted tomatoes, roasted eggplant, and feta baked and topped with a curried watercress and red onion salad.

$19.00

Arugula Flatbread

Mozzarella baked and topped with arugula, tomatoes, and tossed with virgin olive oil and lemon.

$19.00

Wild Mushroom Flatbread

Duxelles, mushrooms, blue cheese, finished with arugula, and dressed in a truffle vinaigrette.

$19.00

Roasted Eggplant Flatbread

Artichoke hearts, roasted tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and roasted eggplant.

$19.00

Kids Chicken Fingers

Fries and honey mustard.

$14.00

Kids Individual Pizza

Cheese and tomato.

$14.00

Children's Menu

Desserts

Lemon-Curd Filled Butter Cake

Frosted with a lemon-coconut whipped cream, and garnished with berry compote.

$10.00

Chocolate Voodoo Cake

Frosted with a dark chocolate-espresso buttercream.

$10.00

Double Chocolate Almond Biscotti

A trio of biscotti.

$4.00

Cocoa-White Chocolate Chunk Cookies

A trio of dark cocoa cookies with white chocolate chunks.

$4.00

French Soda

12 oz. cup. House-made and deliciously refreshing! Syrup and seltzer mixed with ice, and finished with 1/2 and 1/2. Served with a choice of flavor.

$5.00

Italian Soda

12 oz. cup. House-made and deliciously refreshing! Syrup and seltzer mixed with ice. Served with a choice of flavor.

$5.00

San Pellegrino

250 ml. Sparkling mineral water.

$2.50

Boylan's Root Beer

$4.00

Fever Tree Ginger Ale

$5.00

Fever Tree Ginger Beer

$5.00

Fever Tree Mediterranean Tonic

$5.00

Fever Free Sparkling Pink Grapefruit

$5.00

Natalie's Grapefruit Juice

$5.00

Natalie's Lemonade

$5.00

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