large ocean shrimp wrapped in pancetta, grilled and served with sauce rouille
Escargot In A Box
$9.00
plump french snails simmered in a garlic parsley cream served in a toasted bread box
Kobe Siders
$9.00
3 mini burgers grilled and topped with tillamook cheddar
Cheeses Of The World
$12.00
four wonderful specialty cheeses served with lavosh crackers and specially selected accompaniments
Calamari Fritti
$8.00
served with lemon garlic aioli and pickled sweet and hot peppers
Smoked Duck Wings
$9.00
grilled and glazed in honey and soy, served with daikon slaw
Sausage Fondue
$8.00
a creamy blend of hot italain sausageand fontina served in a bread bowl
Tuna Sandwich
$9.00
seared sushi grade tuna with daikon slaw and wasabi mayo on toast
Kobe Carpaccio
$8.00
thin sliced raw kobe beef topped with asiago lace, shallots, capers and herbs
Chips And Dip
$10.00
petite beef kabobs with roquefort cream and house made chips
Crab Cake Sliders
$8.00
3 mini crab cake sandwiches topped with shredded romaine and chipotle mayo
Speciality Salad
Baby Green
$7.00
Classic Caesar
$7.00
Arugula Salad
$9.00
Walnut & Blue Salad
$8.00
Bibb Wedge Salad
$8.00
Entrees
Crab Cakes
$23.00
our signature crab cakes baked golden brown and served with a spicy chipotle butter sauce, mashers and fresh steamed vegetable
Veal Or Chicken Four Seasons
$26.00
tender veal or chicken sauteed with proscuitto, roasted peppers, artichoke hearts and portobellos in a lemon vodka cream sauce served atop a scallion risotto cake
Pasta Putanesca
$20.00
chicken, hot italian sausage, mushrooms, and arugala tossed with penne pasta in a garlicky tomato and wine butter sauce with asiago cheese
Steak And Cake
$27.00
our signature crab cake with chipolte sauce and a petite filet mignon with bearnaise served with mashers and grilled asparagus
Chicken And Shrimp
$24.00
romano crusted boneless breast of chicken pan fried and topped with jumbo shrimp tossed with spaghetti margarite
Shrimp Pasta
$24.00
eight jumbo shrimp sauteed in a fresh tomato sauce with garlic and evoo, tossed with basil, fresh mozzarella and spaghetti
Pasta Misseri
$22.00
penne pasta tossed with hot italian sausage, mushrooms and tomato romano cream sauce
Pasta Bolognese
$20.00
fresh egg linguine tossed with a classic four meat sauce from bologna topped with parmegianno reggianno and chiffonade of basil
Kobe Burger
$18.00
eight ounce kobe beef burger grilled and topped with cabbot sharp white cheddar, served with garlic scented shoestring fries and balsamic ketchup
Vegetable Risotto
$18.00
roasted seasonal vegetables simmered with risotto in a vegetable broth and topped with shaved pecorino romano vegetable risotto can be made vegan if specified
Grill Favorites
grill items are served with your choice of sauce and two sides: chipotle butter sauce, thai chili cream, wasabi mayo, or classic bearnaise. garlic shoestring fries, mashers, griled zucchini, grilled asparagus or scallion risotto cake.
Strip Steak
$30.00
hand cut 12 ounce
Filet Mignon
$35.00
house cut 8 ounce filet
Cowboy Steak
$40.00
house cut 24 ounce bone in rib eye
Lamb Chops
$34.00
four double boned new zealand rib chops
Ston Oven Pizza
The Veggie
$15.00
grilled eggplant. goat cheese. roasted garlic cloves. roasted red pepper. portobello mushrooms. herb olive oil. kalamata olives and fresh mozzarella.
S.o.m.
$16.00
hot italian sausage. caramelized onion. roasted portobellos. marinara. aged provolone, fresh mozzarella and asiago.
S & S
$18.00
soppresatta. hot italian sausage. kalamatas. marinara. roasted garlic cloves. aged provolone. fresh mozzarella and asiago
Chorizo
$16.00
house made peppadew chorizo sausage. roasted mushrooms. scallions with chiuahua. fresh mozzarella and manchengo.
Lamb
$17.00
house made garlic lamb sausage. caramelized onion. black beldi olives. goat cheese. fresh mozzarella and evoo
Olive
$15.00
garlic lioni ricotta. goat cheese. fresh mozzarella. black beldi olives. spanish queens and castle vertrano olives.
Alsace
$15.00
mascarpone. sweet onions and applewood smoked bacon with fresh chives.
Salumi
$18.00
soppresatta. hot fennel salumi. toscano salumi. marinara. caramelized onion. aged provolone. fresh mozzarella and evoo.
Margarite
$14.00
classic. san marzano tomato puree. fresh mozzarella. torn basil with evoo.
Quatre Formaggia
$18.00
garlic lioni ricotta. fresh mozzarella. aged provolone and gorgonzola with herb garlic olive oil.
Pollo Bianco
$17.00
breast of chicken. artichoke hearts. spinach. roasted peppers. fresh mozzarella. asiago. parmigianno and evoo
Shrimp
$20.00
wild gulf shrimp. mascarpone. roasted grape tomatoes. sweet onions and french brie.
Bolognese
$17.00
our famous traditional 4 meat sauce with parmigianno. garlic ricotta and torn basil with evoo.
Hot Pepper & Anchovy
$15.00
garlic olive oil. roasted hot banana peppers. red onion. fresh mozzarella. asiago. anchovies and evoo.
Smoked Salmon
$18.00
mascarpone. avocado. smoked salmon and fresh chives
Breakfast
$16.00
applewood smoked bacon. cabot white cheddar. sunny side up eggs and home fries.
Dessert
$16.00
roasted pears. gorgonzola. mascarpone and wildflower honey & spice.
Welcome to Molinari's where you will experience a premium wining and dining experience every time you visit.
Located in the Mentor Corners Shopping Center at 8900 Mentor Avenue, Molinari's opened in August of 1991 as a Specialty Food & Wine Store. Chef/Owner Randal Johnson, a veteran of restaurants, clubs and hotel dining, wanted to escape the nights and weekends that the restaurant business required, but still yearned to practice his craft and stay involved in food and wine. The Market seemed like the perfect opportunity to do just that. Hundreds of fine wines, thousands of specialty food items and creative upscale prepared foods would keep the chef busy but still enable him to enjoy his young family.
Cooking classes were added to the offerings of Molinari's Food & Wine, much to the delight of local foodies. "You should open a restaurant here," Chef Randal repeatedly heard, but he wanted no part of the 16 hour days that required. The requests kept coming and at one of the cooking classes a young man named George Marko said he was an architect and observed that it would be simple to drop a small restaurant into the midst of the specialty food store. Marko's classmate, Mike Steffalino, added that he was a contractor and could build the space in no time. The three started planning and a few short months later Molinari's the restaurant was born. Thank you for visiting our web site.