$50 gift certificate to Dish Restaurant in La Canada.

Dish is a new kind of restaurant, that offers the quality and creativity of higher priced restaurants, with the value and comfort of a neighborhood coffee shop. We focus on classic American food, the kind of recipes you might find in an old Sunset magazine or your grandmother’s cookbooks.

People who love a great breakfast restaurant will appreciate the things we do at Dish. Like roasting bone-in hams every morning and offering applewood-smoked bacon and hand-crafted sausages. Our apple oatcakes are made with fresh diced green apples, and our cornmeal jonnycakes are made with real corn.

We serve simple family-style food, yet we concentrate on quality. So something as simple as a BLT sandwich can be a pleasant surprise when it’s made with applewood smoked bacon, carefully toasted whole wheat bread and French fries cut from fresh Kennenbeck potatoes. Our lunch menu offers a great selection of American classics, with over ten luncheon salads, gourmet sandwiches, awesome burgers, fresh seafood, pastas, chicken and steak. And most entrees are under $10.00, so we offer value along with creativity and variety.

The dinner menu features home-style traditional American favorites such as roasted ham with macaroni and greens, pork chops with apple chutney, and slow braised brisket of beef with bourbon-barbeque sauce.

A full bar and wine list is available, along with an excellent choice of beers and wines by the glass. (Why shouldn’t you be able to get a good glass of wine in a casual restaurant?) There are also fresh squeezed juices and boutique sodas.

Of course there is a great kid’s menu with lots of creative, healthy choices.

And to top it all off, we make all our own pastries from scratch, All-American favorites such as banana cream pie, strawberry-rhubarb pie, and deep dish apple pie.