"Progressive French cuisine; respectful of tradition"
Situated in the historic Birks building in downtown Saskatoon, Truffles Bistro strives to give our customers a unique dining experience in a European atmosphere. Our owner and
Chef de Cuisine Lee Helman is committed to sourcing the finest Saskatchewan and Canadian products. All of our pastries, breads, stocks and sauces are prepared in house with attention to detail.
Business Hours
Lunch 11:30 - 3:00 Monday - Saturday
Dinner 5:00 - Close Monday - Saturday
Brunch 10:00 - 2:00 Sunday
"Best food in the land. One of Canada's best Restaurants.
A coast to coast odyssey." National Post, October 2006
Lee Helman, Owner, Certified Chef de Cuisine
Jacqueline Helman, Owner
Join us for our three course dinner
Monday-Friday 5:00 P.M. untill 6:00 P.M. $37.
After 6:00 P.M. $42. Saturday 5:00 P.M.- Close $42.
Sunday Brunch 10:00 - 2:00
Six Course Tasting Menu. $55. Wine Parings $25.
Truffles offers free evening parking for customers
5:00 P.M. - Close Monday- Saturday
Customers with special dietary needs no longer need to feel excluded from "the restaurant scene". Please contact us as we can modify any menu item to suit.
Truffles can accomodate your catering needs.
From small luncheons to large functions, we will accomodate your budget and your dining needs.
Truffles is making every effort to support a greener world by recycling, using enviro- friendly detergents, cleaning supplies and local products to cut back on fuel emissions.
Our Senior staff members include:
Kim Klassen, Restaurant Manager
Bill Stevenson, Chef
Julian Helman, Pastry Chef
Photography by Julian Helman and Kevin Kaiser
Food Styling by Lee Helman Owner,Certified chef de Cuisine, Julian Helman, Pastry Chef, Bill Stenson, Chef
Lunch Menu
Soup du jour: Served with Truffles fresh bread & butter. Sm 5 Lg 8
Poutine: Organic fried potatoes, white cheddar cheese curds, finished with demi-glace. 12
Half order Poutine: With a small artisan salad. 13
Truffle oil or aioli 3
Salads: All salads are served with truffles fresh bread & Butter.
Shaved Fennel, Local Golden Beets and Granny Smith Apple:
Mixed greens, goat cheese, cashew nuts, white balsamic & horseradish vinaigrette Sm. 11. Lg. 13.
Roasted Butternut Sqash: Dried cranberries, garlic croutons, artisan greens, pumpkin seeds, fresh sage, olive oil, white wine vinegar. Sm. 11. Lg. 13.
Truffles House Salad: Artisan greens, vegetables and pea shoots: Sm 8 Lg 12.
Add grilled herb chicken breast 5
All sandwiches served with a choice of French fries, soup, or salad.
Chicken Salad: Herb roasted natural chicken breast, Dijon mayo, celery, smoked bacon, green onion, avacado, Truffles whole wheat bread. 14.
Saskatchewan Beef Burger: Prepared in house, grilled, locally smoked aged white cheddar cheese, organic greens, roma tomato and pearl onion jam, pickles, Dijon garlic aioli, poppy kaiser bun. 13.
Add Blue Cheese or smoked bacon to your burger 1.5
Pine View Farms Roast Pork Belly: Truffles French bread, golden beet relish, lettuce, tomatoe, pickled red onions. 14.
Prosciutto Sandwich: Ratatouille vegetables, parmesan cheese, arugula greens, black olives, Truffles Italian crusty bun. 14.
Mains:
Steak Frites: Eight ounce New York , red wine demi glace, sauted mushrooms and shallots, fresh cut French fries. 16.
Moules Mariniere: Fresh Atlantic mussels, steamed with white wine, parsley, garlic, butter, served with fresh cut French fries. 14.
Local Fresh Diefenbaker Trout Chowder: Living Soil Farms herb potatoes, asparagus, capers, croutons, Meyer lemon, butter. 15.
Quiche: Changes Daily.
Starters:
Soup du Jour Sm 5 Lg 8
Romaine Heart Salad:
Buttered brioche crouton, prosciutto, parmesan cheese mousse, roasted garlic vinaigrette, salt cured egg yolk.12.
Truffles Salad:
Artisan greens, shaved vegetables, pumpkin seeds, local pea shoots, brioche crisp. 10.
Ocean Wise Shrimp & Crab:
White truffle creme fraiche, pickled golden beets, local micro greens, pimento foam, leek puree. 13.
Fresh Atlantic Mussels:: Steamed with white wine, arugula pesto, lemon, cream, pickled red onion, grilled herb bread. 13.
Cheese Feature: Changes dailey. Canadian and imported cheese, assorted nuts, assorted bread crisps, berries. For one $10 For Two 18
Saskatchewan Free Range Pork Belly: Braised then pan roasted with Sollosys local organic honey, pea and horseradish cream, smoked bacon, Prairie Orchards jewel cherry marmalade. 13.
Main Course Selections:
Beef Tenderloin: Well aged grilled tenderloin, truffle reduction, Living Soil Farms herb potatoes, caramelized onions, asparagus 28.
Fresh Potato Gnocchi: Truffles gnocchi, brown butter, mushrooms, roasted pear tomatoes, fresh herbs, grated grana papano parmesan cheese. 23.
Steak Frites: Prairie strip loin of beef, mushrooms, port glazed pearl onions, roasted root vegetables, fresh cut fries, sea salt, parsley, truffle oil and our own house made ketchup. 27.
Quebec Duck Breast: Slowly rendered, shaved apple, calvados lemon puree, organic Saskatchewan beluga lentils, pickled vegetables 28.
Pine View Farms Free Range Chicken:
Pan roasted, savoury brioche pudding, jus lie, braised leeks, foie gras butter. 25.
Local Diefenbaker Trout: Rainbow carrot cream, vanilla bean, braised greens, Parisian potatoes, blood orange chilli butter. 26.
Pine View Farms Lamb Ragout: Northern Saskatchewan chanterelle mushrooms, green pepper corns, sage and smoked Kozlic smoked mustard spatzle, parsnip puree. 27.
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Three Course (Table d’hôte)
Seated before 6:00 P.M. Monday-Friday receive $5.00 off the regular price of $42.
Saturday $42.
Starters (Choice of One)
Fresh Atlantic Mussels: Steamed with white wine, arugula pesto, lemon, cream, pickled red onion, grilled herb bread.
Buttered brioche crouton, prosciutto, parmesan cheese mousse, roasted garlic vinaigrette, salt cured egg yolk.
Main Course (Choice of one)
Steak Frites:
Aged eight ounce striploin of beef, sautéed mushrooms, port glazed pearl onions, roasted root vegetables, fresh cut fries with sea salt, parsley, truffle oil, and our own in house made ketchup.
Local Fresh Diefenbaker Trout :
Local Diefenbaker Trout: Rainbow carrot cream, vanilla bean, braised greens, Parisian potatoes, blood orange chilli butter.
Dessert: (Choice of one)
Creme Brulee of The Moment: Changes daily.
Vanille Semi Fredo: Caramel ice cream, fleur de sel, peach saffron sauce.
Six Course Tasting Menu
Confit pear tomatoes, puff pastry, sun dried black olives, goat cheese, local pea shoots, meyer lemon vinaigrette.
Wine Pairing: Villa Teresa, Organic Pinot Grigio, Italy.
Escargot, white wine, roasted garlic, shallots, parsley, butter.
Wine Pairing: Trapiche, Malbec, Argentina.
Roasted cauiflower soup, white truffle oil.
Wine Pairing:Full Press,Chardonnay,Canada
Apple & white balsamic sorbet
Pork tenderloin , prosciutto, local sour cherries,
Living Soil golden beets, Northern wild rice.
Wine Pairing: Carmen Gran Reserva,
Carmenere, Chile.
Ebony & Ivory
Dark & white chocolate mousse, vanilla bean.
Wine Pairing: Prosecco, Blu Giovello, Italy
Six Course Tasting Menu $60.
Wine Paring: $25.
Sunday Brunch
Tradition Breakfast $12
Two eggs, hashbrowns, whole wheat toast. Choice of Canadian back bacon,smoked bacon, or Valley Meats smoked sausage.
Croissant French Toast $14.
Northern wild blueberries, toasted almonds, Solosys local honey and vanilla bean creme fraiche, fruit and berry salad.
Savoury Crepes $14.
Dungeness crab, meyer lemon, spinach, mornay sauce, grilled asparagus, locally smoked white cheddar, fried crepe crisps.
Chicken & Waffle $14.
Crispy fried natural chicken breast, Truffles in house made waffle, Pine View farms bacon lardon, Canadian maple syrup. Breakfast Poutine $ 14.
Fresh cut french fries, white cheddar cheese curds, demi glace, bacon, two poached eggs & hollandaise. Eggs Benidict $13.
English Muffin,two poached eggs, back bacon, hollandaise, hash browns. add white truffle oil $3
Vegetarian $13.
Ratatouilli vegetables, potato rosti, roasted yellow pepper creme fraiche, grape tomatoes,local chanterelle mushrooms, poached egg.
Sides
Valley Meats smoked sausage $3.5
Canadian back bacon $3.5
Smoked bacon $3.
Hashbrowns $2.5
Whole wheat toast & Truffles house made preserves $4. Fresh berries & fruit $4.
One egg 1.5 Two eggs 2.5
Local Hounjet yogurt & berries $8.
Beverages
Orange juice, apple juice
grapefruit, cranberry $3.
Milk $2.75
Coffee $2.5
Tea $3.
Red Wines
Cono Sur Organic Cabernet Carmenere (Chile)
Marrenon, Merlot (France)
Trapiche Reserve, Malbec (Argentina)
White Wines
Errazuriz Estate, Sauvignon Blanc, (Chile)
Villa Teresa, Organic Pinot Grigio (Italy)
Angels Gate, Riesling (Canada).
Layer Cake, Malbec (Argentina)
Gameskeepers,Shiraz grenache (Australia)
Nugan (Petite Sirah) Durif (Australia)
La Lune Cape Jaffa, Cabernet Sauvignon (South Australia)
Carmen,Gran Reserve, Carmenere(Chile)
Quails Gate, Pinot Noir (Canada)
Errazuriz Max Reserva Cabernet Sauvignon (Chile)
Reserve Perrin Cotes du Rhone (France)
La Playa, Black Selection Reserve, Cabernet Sauvignon
Chateauneuf Du Pape La Gardin (France)
Mac Murray, Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast (California)
Kim Crawford Marlborough, Pinot Noir (New Zealand)
7 Deadly Zins (California) 2007
Sumac Ridge Gewurztraminer (Canada)
Marrenon, Chardonnay (France)
Bourgogne Reserve, Chardonnay (France)
Evolution, (United States) Lucky 12th. Edition
Oyster Bay Sauvignon Blanc (New Zealand) 2009
bread /
Dessert Menu
Feature: Pastry Chefs Whim.
Grama Mollys Kuchen: Brandy ice cream, grapes, buttermilk.
Apple Spice Cake: Apple sorbet, apple ice cream, caramel.
Creme Brulee of The Moment
Cafe Brulot Tart: Marscarpone, chocolate, orange.
Ebony & Ivory: White & dark chocolate mousse, local cherry compote.
A selection of Truffles ice cream & sorbet.
Julian Helman: Pastry Chef
Monday to Saturday
Lunch 11:30 to 3:00
Dinner 5:00 to Close
Sunday Brunch 10:00-2:00
230 21st St. East
Saskatoon, Sask.
S7K OB9
tel: + 306-373-7779
fax: + 306-373-7802
trufflesbistro_gmail.com
Truffles Bistro would like to thank
all of our local suppliers:
Castle Land Ranch - (Free range beef) Beechy, Sask.
Pine View Farms, (Free range poultry) Osler, Sask.
Wild West, (Steel head trout) Lucky Lake, Sask.
Colony Coffee and Tea, Regina, Sask.
Wally's Urban Market Garden, Saskatoon, Sask.
Helga's Herbs, Aberdeen, Sask.
Paddock Wood Micro Brewing, Saskatoon, Sask.
Living Soil Farms, Osler, Sask.
Fono's Fish, Dory Lake, Sask.
West Bridgeford Meats, Tugaske, Sask.
K-5 Market, (Wild berries&mushrooms) Shellbrook, Sask.
Saskatoon Sous Chef, Saskatoon, Sask.
Park Cafe,(Smoked trout, Smoked cheese) Saskatoon, Sask.
Wild Boar Meats, Foam Lake, Sask.
Prairie Organic Grains, Watson, Sask.
Sollosy's Honey, Saskatoon, Sask.
Over The Hill Orchards, Lumsden, Sask.
BAA-CK Country Farms(Natural Lamb) Hepburn Sask.
Grandora Gardens, Grandora Sask.
Valley Meats, Hague Sask.
Last Mountain Distillery, Lumsden , Sask.
New Years Eve Menu 2010
Starter (Choice of One)
Fresh Atlantic Oysters Trio: Garnished with citrus, fresh horseradish and mingnonette.
Local Bison Carpaccio: Arugula greens,olive oil, capers, shallots, smoked local white cheddar.
Seared Foie Gras: Savoty bread pudding, sour cherry gastrique, merlot sea salt.
Goat Cheese Tartlet: Artisan greens, black mission figs, passion fruit vinaigrette.
Smoked Local Trout & Canadian Shellfish:
Scallop mousse, golden beet and white balsamic puree.
Striped Pacific shrimp, remoulade.
Smoked trout, blood orange marmalade.
Sparkling Green Apple Sorbet:
Main Course Selections:(Choice of One) Served with fresh vegetables.
Grilled Beef Tenderloin: Pan fried veal sweet breads, organic herb potato, smoked mustard Dijonaise sauce. Roasted Atlantic Halibut: Dungeness crab, chateau potato, sauce American.
Rendered Quebec Duck Breast: Seahothorn berry rduction, fondant potato.
Roasted Rack of Lamb: Port reduction, soft herb polenta.
Pine View Farms Chicken Supreme: Oregon white truffles, organic fingerling potatoes, jus lie.
Dessert (Choice of One)
Brioche Bread Pudding: Poached pear, creme fraiche ice cream, rum bubble sauce.
Mocca Fudge Brownie Cheese Cake: Strawberry ice cream.
Chocolate Flourless Torte with Chocolate Mousse: Assorted berries, champagne sabayon.
Price $75.00 per Person.
230 21st . East
306-373-7779
www.trufflesbistro.ca
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