JG Domestic: And now for the menus
The chef's seventh restaurant opens Friday.
With less than 24 hours before the opening of JG Domestic at the Cira Centre, Jose Garces' team has sprung the menus.
Garces, opening his seventh resto in five years, is keeping to his be-kind-to-farmers, all-American mission with this 150-seater, which also will house his corporate headquarters.
The portion of JG Domestic that spills out into the lobby features a "living wall" of plants hugging the windows' southern exposure facing 30th Street Station. Three podocarpus trees grow through the 18-seat communal table. Wooden shelves contain knickknacks for show.
Chef Dave Conn will execute weekday lunch and six-day dinner menus for which meals can be built in different ways -- tasting ($45 for lunch, $65 for dinner) or a la carte (under $15 lunch dishes, under-$26 dinner entrees). Garces is aiming at a $55-per-person dinner check average, less alcohol.
Notable is the dinner menu item called "whole animal." They bring in and prepare whole animals, from which they serve portions of various cuts. For the opening, said animal is a Green Village suckling lamb.
JG Domestic will open Friday morning with coffee/baked goods served from the Garces Trading Company-branded kiosk in the lobby.
It's open weekdays for lunch and daily except for Sunday for dinner.
Menus here (all on PDFs):
Lunch
Dinner
Dessert
Bar snacks
Drinks