Friday Tapas Menu May 9

Download-MenuButtonSeared Ahi Tuna w/ saffron rice, topped w/ pickled watermelon salad 16

Grilled Flank Steak w/ chimichurri over garlic mashed potatoes 15

Costillitas de Cerdo roasted pork spare ribs w/guava-pineapple glaze 13

Arroz con Pollo stewed chicken w/ rice 13

Roasted Vegetable Tower w/ manchego crostinis 12

Marinated Manchego w/garlic-rosemary olive oil, marcona almonds, and sun-dried cherries 8

Crispy Artichokes lightly floured and served w/aioli 8

Chorizo Stuffed Mushrooms topped with manchego cheese 8

Patatas Bravas crispy potatoes w/spicy aioli and sea salt 5

Pan Caramelized Brussels Sprouts w/ balsamic reduction 5

Salmon Pate… served w/capers, cornichon and toasted pita 10

Empanadas 1 for 3.5 | 2 for 6.5
choice of filling:

  • meat seasoned with olives capers onions
  • veggie with spinach mushrooms and plantains

Rice and Beans white rice, black beans 4

Yucca Fries Cuban root vegetable 4

Platanos fried ripe plantains 4

DESSERTS

Flan 5
Fresh Berry Cheesecake 6
Chocolate Sour Cream Cake 6

Friday Tapas/Artist’s Reception for Carl Voegtling/Valentine’s Day at Carmen’s w/ Doc Scanlon 2/15

Tapas Menu for Friday, Feb. 8

Crab Cakes w/ creamy poblano sauce, served w/saffron rice and veggie

Grilled Hangar Steak w/churrasco sauce served with yucca fries

Arroz con Pollo Chicken stewed and cooked with rice in a tomato-herb broth

Polenta cakes w/grilled seasonal veggies

Flan

Apple Pie

Thick & Dark & Creamy Spanish Style Hot  Chocolate

—See our website for Saturday & Sunday Specials
We’ll post them as we plan them! —

This Saturday, February 16 Artist’s Reception for Carl Voegtling

PaintingsbyCarlVoegtling
4-7 pm
Tapas Hors D’Oeuvres & Sangria
Cash Bar

Next Friday, Feb. 15—
Valentine’s Day at Carmen’s featuring the Doc Scanlon Trio
Shows at 6 & 8PM
Prix Fixe Valentines’ Menu
(Tapas available a la Carte)

Friday Night Tapas, Breakfast Buffet Saturday and Sunday:

Beef Roulade
served with garlic-nutmeg mashed potatoes in a demi glace

Grilled Chicken
with orange-ginger glaze

Grilled Shrimp
in a sherry cream sauce

Grilled Salmon
with beurre blanc

Our last Breakfast Buffet was New Year’s Day.  We’ve expanded the menu and brought it back
this Saturday & Sunday, the 16th & 17th,
because you like it so much!

Menu:
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs with Chorizo
Flamenco Stew
Bacon
Blueberry Multigrain Pancakes with Pure Maple Syrup
Fruit Platter with Homemade Yoghurt Dip
Cheese Platter
Toast
Home Fries
Rice & Beans
Fried Plantains
Coffee, Tea and Juice

Cost is $12 Adults, $7 for kids under 12

Next Week:
Patrick Lynskey
Acoustic Rock Covers and Originals

Carmen’s Café
Carmen & Jim
Fine Cuban American Cuisine

Carmen’s Café
(518) 326-2064
carmenscafe@nycap.rr.com

Tapas on Fridays 5-9,
Breakfast & Lunch Sat & Sun 9-4

198 First Street (Corner of Adams)
Troy NY 12180

Carmen’s Cafe is Very Social

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Enjoy a breakfast buffet at Carmen's Cafe

Breakfast Buffet Next Saturday & Sunday, April 16 & 17

Enjoy a breakfast buffet at Carmen's Cafe

Next Saturday & Sunday, April 16 & 17, we are trying something different. Every once in a while we have a Breakfast Buffet instead of our usual cook-to-order. It’s a good time to try something different, to fill your hunger both for the new and different and for the tried and true. Menu:

  • Scrambled Eggs
  • Chorizo Scrambled Eggs
  • Flamenca (Chorizo Stew, eaten with eggs)
  • Bacon
  • Home Fries
  • Blueberry Multigrain Pancakes
  • Fruit Platter w. Yoghurt Dip
  • Cheese Platter
  • Toast
  • Coffee-Tea-Juice

Price is $12 for adults, $7 for children under 12.

If you like it we’ll do it more often, so let us know, even if you can’t come in this weekend.