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791 Raymond Ave. St. Paul, MN 55114

651-641-1446

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BEST GOURMET PIZZA
Award Winner 2008

Cuisine(s): American, Breakfast

Price: $$

Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Business Dining

Serving: Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

Alcohol: Beer/Wine
Reservations: Accepted

Parking: Street

Description

CLOSED This tiny, cozy neighborhood café, which used to be breakfast-and-lunch-only, now serves dinner. There's an organic chicken leg from Schultz Farm: Its crackly skin is topped with a salty olive relish and served with sauteed kale and a crisp-on-the-outside, creamy-on-the-inside polenta cake. Charming, affordable desserts, such as a tart, lemony apple crisp, round out the meal.

2008 | BEST GOURMET PIZZA

A great pizza is maybe 30 percent context. This is science. And Jay's Café gets the context just right: a small box of a room; cracked linoleum floors; small, square tables with an aged black-lacquer finish; IBC root beer in the cooler. That they've captured the essence of the great American pizzeria is surely coincidence, and you must take full advantage of the universe's happy accidents. Here's how you do that: First, you find the free parking. It's all meters in front of Jay's, but... More »

Jay's Place

By Bridgette Reinsmoen | Wed, February 13, 2008

JAY'S CAFÉ791 Raymond Ave., St. Paul651.641.1446 • www.jays-cafe.comThe restaurant business is a tenuous one. Many new ventures don't last a year, and even established places have to worry about drop-offs in business that could ruin the bottom lin... More »

Main Menu

Appetizers

$10.00

Tostones
savory twice-fried plantain slices. • with avocado and puerto rican mojito, $6 • with salt cod ceviche, $10

$5.00

Mango & Cheese Empanadillas
two fried pastries filled with cheese and mango paste. $5

$6.00

Spinach & Arugula Salad
fresh arugula and spinach salad with avocado, oranges, tomatoes, and citrus vinaigrette.

$7.00

Doubles
trinidadian sandwich made with fried bread and stuffed with channa, a curried chickpea mixture. topped with jerked banana and mango chutney and a side of hot pepper sauce.

$10.00

Conch Fritters
served with banana ketchup and pickapeppa remoulade.

$9.00

Bacalaitos
9 deep fried salt cod fritters. served with puerto rican mojito.

Entrees

Mofongo Special Of The Day (new)
classic puerto rican dish made with plantains that are first fried, then mashed with garlic, salt pork, olive oil, salt, and pepper, using a mortar and pestle; then stuffed. filling and sides vary daily. (price will vary)

$17.00

Grilled Skirt Steak
smothered with onions. served with white rice and stewed beans.

$16.00

Jamaican Rundown
coconut stew, slow-cooked, with crab, carrots, onions, peppers, and sweet potatoes, served with jasmine rice.

$14.00

Grilled Jerk Chicken Breast
with pigeon pea rice, and festival (fried dumpling).

$19.00

Grilled Jerk Red Snapper
served with root vegetables, jasmine rice, and coconut curry bananas.

$14.00

Piñon (puerto Rican Casserole)
layered casserole with plantains and seasoned ground beef, topped with sauteed green beans. served with white rice and stewed kidney beans.

$18.00

Grilled Jumbo Shrimp
three jumbo shrimp, grilled with black pepper-rum glaze. served with curried citrus rice and sauteed spinach.

$17.00

Plantain Crusted Mahi Mahi
topped with puerto rican mojo isleño, with root vegetables.

Dessert

Dessert
selection varies daily. ask your server for details. $5

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Jay's Cafe - CLOSED

791 Raymond Ave. St. Paul, MN 55114

651-641-1446

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2008 | BEST GOURMET PIZZA

Jay's Place

By Bridgette Reinsmoen | Wed, February 13, 2008

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