Standard Fare Menu (Update 2025)
Standard Fare in Berkeley offers a delightful experience for breakfast, brunch, and lunch. This women-owned café prides itself on serving delicious food with vegan options and a focus on sustainability. The menu features dishes like cheesy scrambled eggs with house-made fennel sausage, sourdough waffles, and decadent oatmeal with pluot jam. Customers rave about the flavorful Monterey Bay Squid with Beans and the flaky biscuit sandwich. With outdoor seating, a cozy ambiance, and friendly staff, Standard Fare provides a welcoming atmosphere for families, friends, and solo diners alike. Whether you're in the mood for a casual brunch or a special dinner, this café provides a menu full of options to satisfy every palate. The commitment to quality ingredients and diverse flavors makes Standard Fare a standout destination for food enthusiasts in the Berkeley area.
Dinner Menu
Potato And New Onion Soup With Cumin And Marash Pepper Oil
A silk puree of Yukon Gold potatoes and sweet new onions with spiced oil
Garden Lettuces With Red Wine-Shallot Vinaigrette
Blue Heron Farms lettuces and Pacific Sun Eva's Blend extra virgin olive oil
Little Gem And Chervil Salad
With pickled carrots and turnips, toasted sesame seeds, and champagne-mustard seed vinaigrette. Crispy lettuces and herbs with house pickles, nutty seeds, and a pungent vinaigrette
Quinoa And Lentil Salad
With anise hyssop, roasted radishes, San Joaquin Gold cheese, and Banyuls vinaigrette. Local quinoa, green lentils, herbs, and cheese
Pork Shoulder Braised With Roasted Turnips, Cider Vinegar And Herbs
Served braised buttered cabbage, cranberry beans, and cornbread (in a ceramic pot)
Petrale Sole Baked In A Fig Leaf
With basil-nasturtium yogurt sauce. Served with sauteed spinach, fried green shallots, and new potatoes (in a ceramic pot)
Spiced Crispy Cauliflower Steaks With Coconut Oil Sizzle
Served with red lentils, long-cooked romano beans with fenugreek, and bulgur (in a ceramic pot)
Pasta Sauce
Italian meatballs simmered in a simple tomato sauce. Tomato sauce with garlic and organic pork meatballs
Cornbread
Full Belly Farm cornmeal, tangy buttermilk, and sweet butter
Sauteed Spinach
Sweet savoy spinach with butter and sea salt
Long-Cooked Romano Beans With Tomatoes And Fenugreek
Pinnacle Farms Romano beans with Dirty Girl Farm dry-farmed tomatoes
Buttered Cabbage
Riverdog Farms cabbage slow cooked with sweet butter and salt
Roasted Royal Blenheim Apricots
With noyau creme anglaise. Sweet Guru Ram Das apricots roasted with white wine and vanilla and black pepper with nutty noyau-scented creme anglaise
Chocolate Chip-Pecan Cookies
TCHO bittersweet chocolate with toasted pecans
Carrot, Turnip, And Fennel Pickles
Sweet carrots, pink turnipa, & fennel pickled with cider vinegar, herbs and spices
Classic Sauerkraut
Lacto-fermented organic red and green cabbage
Red Wine-Shallot Vinaigrette
Sparrow Lane Zinfandel vinegar and Pacific Sun Eva's Blend extra virgin olive oil
Anchovy-Red Wine Vinaigrette
Sparrow Lane Zinfandel vinegar, salt-packed anchovies, garlic, lemon juice, and Pacific Sun Eva's Blend extra virgin olive oil
Hummus
Organic garbanzo beans pureed with sea salt, garlic, extra-virgin olive oil, and lemon juice. Each jar is finished with a generous drizzle of olive oil and a sprinkle of Marash pepper
Rich Chicken Stock
Hoffman Farm chicken meat and bones simmered into a rich tasty broth
Mixed Grain Salad
A weekly changing salad of organic grains (farro, quinoa, barley or brown rice) and legumes (lentils. chickpeas, fava beans), mixed with fantastic local produce, herbs, and dressings
Garden Lettuce Salad
Blue Heron Farms organic garden lettuces served with red wine-shallot vinaigrette
Half Sandwich And Salad
Half a sandwich of your choosing with a Garden Lettuce Salad
Seasonal Soup Of The Week
Standard Fare makes a different soup every week based on what is available at the local farmers' market. Yum!
Half Sandwich And Soup
Half a sandwich of your choosing with a hot cup of our weekly seasonal soup
Sandwich Salad
This is our gluten-free option for sandwich lovers - all the fixings from our sandwiches on top of a garden lettuce salad
Brown Bag Lunch
A full sandwich of your choosing, a Garden Lettuce Salad, and a bag of cookies
Omnivore Sandwich
Our daily, seasonal, meaty sandwich with lots of delicious vegetables, meat, and greens on our housemade Standard Fare focaccia
Vegetarian Sandwich
Our daily, seasonal sandwich with lots of delicious, vegetables, condiments, and greens on our housemade Standard Fare focaccia
Whole Sandwiches
Choose vegetarian, omnivore, or variety. Serves
Standard Fare Sandwich Platter
Mix and match our vegetarian and omnivore sandwiches with our seasonal soup or garden lettuces. Serves
Coconut Macaroons
A little crispy, a little chewy, bursting with coconut!
Ruby's Roast Coffee
oz. cup. Batch-brewed Ruby's Roast dark organic blend. Ruby's Roast is in our building and they roast a dark rich coffee that we brew deep and smooth
Beverages
Choose from Lemonade, Organic Assam Tea, or an Arnold Palmer
Hummus Mezze Plate
Creamy organic chickpea puree, topped with Marash pepper and served with housemade crackers, vegetables, and olives