Release Date: February 2, 2006
During "Dada" Show National Gallery of Art Offers Central European-Inspired menu in Cafe Dada
Washington, DC—In conjunction with the opening of the major exhibition Dada, on view in the East Building from February 19 through May 14, 2006, the National Gallery of Art will open Café Dada in its Terrace Café. Located on the mezzanine level, overlooking the entrance to the exhibition, Café Dada will offer a coffee-house style menu of sandwiches and salads, with the emphasis on desserts and hot beverages. The central European-inspired menu of bistro and café-style food will be offered in a small-plate format, designed to promote sharing and tasting among the guests. Café Dada will be open Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through May 14, 2006.
Menu selections include charcuterie (saucisson sec, bundnersfleish, prosciutto, cervelat, savoy cabbage slaw, cornichons, red wine pickled onions, farmhouse butter, and country bread); trio of smoked seafood (salmon, sturgeon and trout, fingerling potato salad, horseradish crème fraîche, and black bread); artisanal cheeses with quince paste and Champagne grapes (Banon, Roquefort Papillon, Tome de Savoie); and prosciutto panini (fontina, truffle butter, and arugula salad).
Central European-inspired dessert offerings include pain au chocolat, palmier (a small cookie made with puff pastry, resembling the foliage of a palm tree), Sachertorte (Viennese chocolate sponge cake filled with apricot jam, covered with chocolate icing), apple strudel, kirsch kuchen (cherry torte), chocolate and pear tart, and kugelhopf (cinnamon bundt cake). Hot beverages will include French press pot of Vienna roast coffee, Valrhona hot chocolate, and a selection of Harney’s teas.
Exhibition Support and Organization
Dada is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation. Additional support for the exhibition has been provided by the Annenberg Foundation and Thomas G. Klarner. The brochure is made possible by Aaron and Barbara Levine and Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland. The film is made possible by the HRH Foundation. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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