Zest:
- the outer edge of citrus fruit with the most fresh, robust and intense flavor
- something added to impart flavor or to enhance one’s appreciation
- hearty enjoyment; gusto, liveliness and energy...

ZZest Market & Wine Café:
- restaurant and store on the outer edge of culinary creativity, serving food and selling ingredients with the most fresh, robust and intense flavor, for your hearty enjoyment
- a market with gusto, liveliness and energy.
- two “ZZ” for twice the zest (but still pronounced “zest”).
 

Store owner LeeAnn Zubay has made a career of researching and finding the unique foods which she used to design restaurant menus, and is now using her culinary talent to bring over-the-top “gourmet” ingredients to both our café and your kitchen.

SHOP: Ingredients with ZZest – the artisan, small batch, handmade, foods that follow traditional family methods.
• Artisan domestic and imported cheese from small farms across our country and across the world
• Olive oils from California, Italy, France, Spain and even Tunisia
• Honeys from Rochester to France and between
• Pure nut oils; imported hand salted Marcona almonds; finishing salts and glamorous sugars; imported grains and rustic pastas
• Chutneys, jams, olives, spreads, crackers, crostini, breads, preserved lemons, pomegranate molasses, fig bread
• Complete charcuterie selection including Jamón ibérico and Jamón serrano, pates, salumi, sausages, prosciutto, pancetta, and speck.
• Dairy including quark, crème fraîche, cultured butters, mascarpone, fromage blanc, and ricotta

DRINK: Adventurous wines and micro-brew beers complement your lunch or dinner. Waters and sodas like real ginger beer; fermented cola and lemonade; rhubarb, cucumber, and lavender sparkling waters; and locally roasted coffees served in a French press

EAT: No other restaurant has a pantry with over 2000 ingredients. Our lunches, dinners, and take-home platters are made right from our shelves. 

Fine food.  Casual dining.  No reservations & no wait staff.  Just amazing dishes:

• Starters: Adventurous Cheese Board, Charcuterie Board with hand selected pâtés and meats, Smoked Fish Plate, and Antipasto Board
• Soups & Salads featuring our Fresh Housemade Mozzarella Salad
• Dinner Plates made from free-range chicken, fish flown in from Honolulu or Florida, rope-grown mussels from Puget Sound, our rustic pasta, and local pork, then prepared with amazing ingredients from our store.
• Cool Sandwiches and hot paninis on European style Tribeca bakery French baguette with beautiful fillings
• Finish with hand selected Jeni’s ice cream trio, and our other changing selection

Live ZZestfully!
 

                                                    photos by olive juice studios