Mid-Day Menu at St. Francis

If you ask me, it’s great to be an Arizonan during the summer time. Local businesses are creating great promos to lure us out of our air-conditioned homes and into our hot cars. One such special is St. Francis’ new mid-day snack menu. Until 5 p.m., guests at the Phoenix restaurant can order any of the following goodies at stellar prices:
• Tomato soup- with eggplant, caponata and mint ($6)
• Potatoes- crispy fingerlings with rosemary, sage and lemon aioli ($6)
• Baked goat cheese- with walnut herb pesto, tomato and toasted crostini ($9)
• Chopped romaine- with summer vegetables, smoked bacon, buttermilk cheddar dressing (half $5/full $10)
• Chicken salad- with zatar spice, currants, pine nuts, flatbread ($14)
• Pork chile verde- with jack cheese and home-made cornbread ($12)
• French onion burger- with smoked bacon, gruyere cheese, crispy onions ($13)
• Chocolate cake with peanut butter gelato, caramel sauce, homemade caramel corn ($7)
• Sticky toffee pudding, sweet cream gelato ($7)
Better yet, from 2:30 to 5 p.m., St. Francis will dole out free–yes, free–bar snacks including flatbreads, mesquite-roasted almonds, house-made potato chips and marinated olives along with $3 draught beer, $5 specialty cocktails and $10 carafe wine specials. http://www.stfrancisaz.com/.