L'Etoile is a fine dining restaurant established in 1976 by Chef Odessa Piper. Our seasonal menus are inspired by the Midwest region and are rendered with a French influence.
About Café Soleil
Green Efforts
Café Soleil in the News
Currently Featured Farmers
Local Artist on Display
All of our menu items are made with locally-grown ingredients. We work with organic and premium flours, allowing our dough to slow-rise for up to 40 hours to develop flavor and texture. Our handcrafted croissants have been a tradition on the Square since 1976.
Our Café features espresso and proprietary blends from Just Coffee Cooperative.
Green Efforts
At Café Soleil and L'Etoile, we do everything we can to provide you with locally and sustainably raised products and all of our menu items are homemade with these Wisconsin ingredients. (How home-made? Just ask us about our flavor syrups, mayonnaise or our lunch meats!) Because we're committed to being responsible members of our community and our world, we are going green! We're lessening our environmental impact and you can help.
Our fluorescent lightbulbs will last about 4 years and use 87% less energy!!
Compost that Coffee Cup! All of our disposables are made of either biodegradable/compostable materials or 100% recycled content.
Recycle that Napkin! We encourage you to recycle everything disposable that you get from our café, because it's all recyclable! (Except the silverware...)
Don't need a bag? Don't take one!
Save that Saucer! Commercial dish machines use a lot of energy and a lot of water, so if we are giving you a dish that you don't need, just give it back!
Bring a cup ... and save! Bring your own mug and you'll get a discount on brewed coffee!
Reasons to Support Going Green:
www.nrc-recycle.org/top10reasonstorecycle.aspx
www.urbanedpartnership.org/target/units/recycle/reasons.html
www.uvm.edu/recycle
www.moab-solutions.org/recyclingfactoids.html
Café Soleil In the News:
Isthmus, March 6, 2009, Raphael Kadushin
The
Capital Times, October 6, 2007, Mary Bergin
Wisconsin
's Sights Set on Earth-Friendly Tourism
Top-notch bakery in casual setting at Café Soleil
Currently Featured Farmers:
Black Earth Valley Sweet Onions and Mushrooms • Blue Moon Beets • Capri Cheese Fresh Chèvre • Ela Orchard Ida Red Apples • Engel Brothers Organic Red Potatoes • Farmer Johns Provolone • Fountain Prairie Farm Grass-Fed Dry-Cured Scottish Highland Beef • Future Fruit Cox Orange Pippin Apples • Hook's Cheese Company Cheddar and Swiss • Jordandal Farm Free-Range Chicken • Lange Farm Organic Turkey • New Century Farm Organic Eggs • Snug Haven Arugula and Spinach • Weston's Antique Apples • Widmer's Brick Cheese • Willow Creek Farm Berkshire Pork, Ham & Bacon
Local Artist Display at Café Soleil
Phenomena
by Pam Murtaugh
To purchase Phenomena please call Pam at (608) 287-1122.