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An early participant in the Slow Food movement, Central Market serves creative, Cal-Mediterranean dishes—many of whose ingredients come from the restaurant's organic farm—in a century-old building with an exposed brick wall and an open kitchen. The menu, which changes daily depending on chef Tony Najiola's inspiration and what's ripe and ready, might include spicy duck wings or seafood sausage starters, pizzas, a stew, two or three pasta dishes, and wood-grilled fish and meat.
The chef-owners of this neighborly restaurant say their fare "walks the line between comfort and haute cuisine"—mostly California-inspired and "hyperseasonal" items that might include Mt. Lassen trout with leek roulade or local duck breast in Grand Marnier sauce served with fig and potato gratinée. The same could be said for the casual but knowing hospitality and the decor (bare wooden tables yet linen napkins), but it all works: dining here engenders quiet excitement.
