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Cafe Ollie
42 E Cross St
Ypsilanti, MI 48198
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Daytime
Brunch
Market Omelette
$11.00
Fresh and ingeniously prepared by the kitchen crew and enfolded in eggy goodness. Ask your server for details. Served with breakfast potatoes and farm greens
gluten-free
Breakfast Sandwich
$7.00
a grazing fields egg, your choice of hickory smoked bacon / house sausage / spiced tempeh, seasonal spreads and pickles, farm greens, and aged white cheddar on a house bun
- Upgrade to a Big Ol' House Buttermilk Biscuit for
- $1.00
Breakfast Burrito
$10.00
Hickory-smoked bacon or seasonal veggies scrambled with two grazing fields eggs and aged white cheddar, wrapped up with fresh salsa verde. Served with breakfast potatoes and fresh greens. May be prepared as a bowl
Vegan Burrito
$10.00
Chorizo spiced tempeh sautéed with seasonal veggies and black beans, wrapped up with house salsa verde, farm greens, and vegan chili-lime aioli. Served with breakfast potatoes and fresh greens. May be prepared as a bowl
vegan
Shrimp + Sweet Potato Grits
$15.00
Buttery, organic michigan stone-ground grits with aged white cheddar topped with grilled michigan shrimp sautéed with bacon, onions, local chilies, garden herbs. Topped with toasted garlic, burnt jalapeno remoulade, and scallion
gluten-free
- Add Grazing Fields Egg
- $1.00
Winter Salad
$11.00
all the best local veggies tossed with farm greens and spinach in roasted apple vinaigrette, and topped with fried shallot, spiced squash seeds + mixed nuts
vegan
gluten-free
Turkey Avocado Club
$11.00
michigan oven-roasted turkey, hickory-smoked bacon, avocado, cave aged gruyere, organic greens, tomato, and herb aioli on zingerman's farm bread. served with fruit and greens
Grilled Cheese + Tomato Soup
$10.00
Zingerman's farm bread loaded with cave-aged gruyere and aged white cheddar. Served with a warming bowl of tomato bisque
- Add Hickory-Smoked Bacon
- $2.00
Sweet Potato Burger
$11.00
Homemade patty on a house bun with caramelized onion vegan "aioli," ketchup, lettuce, tomato, and onion. Served with pesto potatoes
vegan
Ollie Burger
$11.00
Knights beef ground fresh and grilled to perfection and served on a homemade bun with herb aioli, fancy ketchup, farm greens, tomato, and Onion. Classic. Served with pesto potatoes
- Add Sharp Cheddar or Gruyere
- $1.00
- Add Hickory Smoked Bacon
- $2.00
Harvest Hash* **
$11.00
local potatoes and seasonal vegetables given the skillet treatment and served with two grazing fields eggs and zingerman's toast
- Add Grobbel's Corned Beef or Spiced Tempeh for
- $2.00
Biscuits and Gravy
$11.00
house buttermilk biscuits smothered in scratch-made sausage gravy or detroit mushroom company mushroom gravy, served with two farm eggs
Sides
All Sides $1 off If Ordered with a Meal
Side Salad
$6.00
half order of winter salad
vegan
gluten-free
Winter Slaw
$4.00
seasonal veggies shredded and tossed with house dressing
vegan
gluten-free
Sweet Potato Gratin
$6.00
roasted sweet potatoes in cheesy goodness
gluten-free
Eggs
$2.00
two grazing fields farm eggs done up however you like 'em
gluten-free
Zingerman's Toast
$3.00
served with house preserves
Parfait
$7.00
fluffy bottoms farm yogurt, house olive oil / maple / coconut granola, michigan maple, house preserves
gluten-free
Grilled Breakfast Potatoes
$3.00
Salt, pepper, heat. What more can we say?
Proteins
$4.00
house tempeh, house sausage, hickory smoked bacon
Jalapeno Cornbread Pudding
$6.00
slightly smaller, but just as filling, version of our evening pudding. served with maple syrup
*can be gluten free; **can be vegan
Shareables
Grilled Spinach Salad
$11.00
charred cabbage + fennel, house pickles, spiced beets, tossed with spinach, fried dmc mushrooms, fluffy bottoms feta, spiced squash seeds, paprika vinaigrette
vegetarian
gluten-free
- Add Bacon
- $2.00
Broccoli + Parmesan
$8.00
Hard roasted broccoli + parmesan. Battered and fried. Served with jalapeno aioli
Maple Glazed Winter Vegetables
$9.00
winter roots roasted and glazed with local maple syrup glaze and all dressed up with pickled mustard seeds and spiced nuts
vegan
gluten-free
Grilled Cheese + Tomato Soup
$13.00
Thick cut zingerman's farm bread with zingerman's goat cheese, aged cheddar and cranberry preserves. Served tomato bisque
- Add Bacon
- $2.00
Samosa Cakes
$11.00
Samosa inspired potato + vegetable cakes, grilled. Served with cranberry + orange chutney, spiced ketchup, fried shallots, pea shoots.
vegan
gluten-free
Board of Things
A small but bountiful board of seasonal pickles + roasted vegetables, cheeses and zingerman's farm bread. Can be prepared for many, or two
- $18.00
- $12.00
Biscuit + Gravy
$7.00
one house buttermilk biscuit smothered in scratch-made sausage or dmc mushroom gravy, topped with a sunny-side up egg, fried garlic, herbs, shoots
Large Plates
Winter is Here Burger
$15.00
Knight's chuck ground in house on a scratch bun with pickled golden beets, cave-aged gruyere, fried egg, pepper sauce, fried shallots, micros. Served with pesto potatoes
- Add Bacon
- $2.00
The Quite Possible Burger
$13.00
Scratch-made sweet potato patty on a house bun piled up with chipotle peanut slaw, caramelized onion "aioli", fried shallots, micros. Served with a small salad of farm greens, apple vinaigrette, toasted squash seeds, house pickles
vegan
BBQ Shrimp & Sweet Potato Grits
$19.00
Oorganic Michigan stone-ground grits with aged white cheddar topped with grilled Michigan shrimp sauteed with bacon, onions, and chilies. Topped with toasted garlic, herbs, burnt jalapeno remoulade and scallion
gluten-free
- Add a Grazing Fields Egg
- $1.00
Braised Beef Roast*
$17.00
Braised knight's beef, roasted seasonal roots topped with herbs and a bourbon burnt honey glaze. Served with grilled cornbread wedges
Apple + Parsnip Risotto*
$16.00
parsnip cream infused risotto tossed with hard roasted parsnips and herbs. topped with dmc fried mushrooms, lemon + rosemary nuts, pickled apples, and micros
- Add Chicken
- $4.00
Roasted Squash Fettuccine
$15.00
Scratch-made vegan rye pasta in roasted butternut squash sauce sauteed with hearty local greens, dmc mushrooms. Topped with fried sage, fresh herbs, spiced nuts.
vegan
Chicken + Dumplings
$17.00
Roasted amish chicken and vegetables in the most delicious stew with fresh herbs and scratch-made buttermilk dumplings. Topped with chicken cracklings and served with farm greens dressed in house buttermilk ranch.
*Can be prepared gluten free
Signature Cocktails
Guadalupe on the Banks of the Styx
$11.00
strawberry cordial, amaro rabarbaro, cocchi rosa, campari, aperol, citrus, egg white
Cold Cold Heart
$12.00
old grand dad bonded, amaro rabarbaro, carpano antica vermouth, regan orange bitters
Gyasi Went Home
$12.00
doctor bird + smith & cross rums, ferrand dry curacao, fresh lime, house orgeat
Tannis Root
$9.00
pimm's, gin, ginger, cayenne, fernet branca, spruce + birch bitter, lemon
Rusty 49'er
$11.00
dickel rye, sweet vermouth, orange bitters, turbinado, lemon, fernet branca
Nine Times Out of Ten
$13.00
montelobos mezcal espadin, raspberry, hibiscus, clove, lime, mint
Mind on My Money
$13.00
michigan gin, fresh grapefruit, honey syrup, peychaud bitters, quinine
Postcard from Affair
$12.00
vodka, byrrh quinquina, lemon, ginger, fresh muddled blackberry, lemongrass, bolivar bitters
Classic Cocktails
Manhattan
bourbon or rye, sweet vermouth, bitters, amaro
- Good $9.00
- Better $11.00
- Best $14.00
Tonic
gin or vodka, jack rudy tonic, soda, lime
- Good $7.00
- Better $9.00
- Best $11.00
Gimlet
gin or vodka, lime cordial, fresh lime juice
- Good $7.00
- Better $9.00
- Best $11.00
Paloma
tequila, grapefruit, lime, sugar & salt
- Good $8.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $13.00
Sazerac
rye, turbinado, peychaud bitters, herbsaint
- Good $9.00
- Better $11.00
- Best $14.00
Boulevardier
bourbon or rye, sweet vermouth, aperitif
- Good $9.00
- Better $11.00
- Best $14.00
Gold Rush
bourbon, honey, lemon
- Good $8.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $11.00
Negroni
gin, campari, sweet vermouth
- Good $8.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $13.00
Collins
gin or vodka, lemon, soda, simple syrup
- Good $7.00
- Better $9.00
- Best $11.00
Margarita
tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, sugar & salt
- Good $8.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $13.00
Daiquiri
rum, sugar, & lime
- Good $8.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $13.00
Dark & Stormy
gosling's black seal, ginger syrup, lime
- Good $7.00
Corpse Reviver #2
gin, lemon, orange liqueur, cocchi americano, absinthe
- Good $9.00
- Better $11.00
- Best $15.00
Rye Old Fashioned
rye, turbinado, bitters
- Good $9.00
- Better $11.00
- Best $13.00
Bourbon Old Fashioned
bourbon, turbinado, bitters
- Good $7.00
- Better $10.00
- Best $12.00
Mellow Corn Old Fashioned
mellow corn whiskey, honey syrup, bitters
- Good $7.00
Red
Chateau Fontaine Big Paw Red
All Michigan grape blend. Leelanau county.
- $6.00
- $24.00
Château Fontaine Pinot Noir
100% estate grown pinot noir. Leelanau county.
- $12.00
- $38.00
Michele Chiarlo Barbera
100% barbera, all sourced from the South aegean, Greece.
- $11.00
- $32.00
Lago Cerqueira
Blend of tinta roriz, touriga nacional, touriga franca and tinta barroca. Douro doc, Portugal.
- $8.00
- $30.00
Montebuena Rioja
100% tempranillo from the montebuena estate in basque country, Northern Spain.
- $9.00
- $30.00
Illusion Red Blend
Blend of petite sirah, cabernet sauvignon, old vine zinfandel, and merlot. Hand harvested in lodi, California.
- $10.00
- $33.00
Wimmer Zweigelt Red Table Wine
$30.00
100% zweigelt grapes from the poysdorf region of Austria. Bottle only.
White
Winnings Riesling
100% organic reisling from pfalz, Germany.
- $12.00
- $38.00
Villa Wolf Gewurztraminer
100% gewurztraminer from pfalz, Germany.
- $9.00
- $29.00
Tormentoso Chenin Blanc
100% chenin blanc from agter-paarl, South Africa.
- $10.00
- $33.00
Rosé
Rustenberg Rosé
100% petite verdot, simonsberg mountain valley, South Africa.
- $9.00
- $29.00
Pellehaut Rosé
Rose blend of merlot, tannat, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, syrah and malbec from gascony, France.
- $7.00
- $25.00
Château Fontaine Laughing Waters
Made from Michigan grown pinot noir grapes in leelanau county.
- $10.00
- $34.00
Zwiegelt Rosé
100% zwiegelt grapes grown in Austria.
- $10.00
- $32.00
Bottles
Ask your server about rotating seasonal bottles
PBR
$2.00Miller High Life
$3.00Stroh's Bohemian Pilsner
$4.00Vandermill Seasonal Cider
$6.00Founders All Day IPA
- 19.2oz $5.00
Osker Blues Dales Pale
$4.00Short's Soft Parade
- Can $4.50
Salopian Entire Butt Porter
$5.00Old Nation M-43
- 16oz $8.00
Non-Alcoholic
Topo Chico
$2.50Mexican Coke
$2.50Boylan Ginger
$2.50Boylan Diet Cola
$2.50Faygo Products
$2.50Orange Juice
$3.00Guernsey Chocolate Milk
$3.00Seasonal Shrub
$6.50
Ask your server about today's selection.
Rhubarb Lemonade
$6.00
Local rhubarb, hand-squeezed lemon, simple syrup, soda.
Grapefruit Spritzer
$6.50
Fresh grapefruit juice, elderflower tonic, lemon, simple syrup, soda.
Scarlett Temple
$5.00
House made cherry syrup, pearl sugar cherries, turbinado syrup, soda.
Aud's Orange Juliez
$6.00
Fresh orange, turbinado sugar, and local cream.
The Lucio
$5.00
Mcclure's bloody mix, all the garnishes.
Beverages
50% off all Wine Pours & Wine Bottle
$2 Off All Classic Cocktails
$2 Off Craft Draft Pours
Miller High Life
$2.00Bar Snacks
3pm – close
Nuts
$5.00
sweet (orange zest + orange blossom water) or spicy (chili + old bay)
Popcorn
$3.00
warm spice + brown butter + brown sugar
Ollie Snack Mix
$5.00
sweet nuts + spicy nuts + dried michigan cherries + house granola + shaved chocolate
Sweet Potatoes Gratin
$6.00
roasted sweet potatoes in cheesy goodness
Jalapeño Cornbread Pudding
$7.00
served with maple syrup
- Add Jake's Hickory Smoked Bacon for
- $1.00
Chilaquiles Verdes**
$9.00
milagro chips fried in house salsa verde with onion and herbs. topped with a fried grazing fields egg, local pea shoots, pickled onions, pickled radishes, fried garlic, and feta
gluten-free
- Add Chicken or Tempeh
- $3.00
Biscuit Sliders
$8.00
two house buttermilk biscuits, herb aioli, fried farm egg, and cheddar
- Add Sausage or Tempeh for
- $4.00
Ploughman's Board
$13.00
a perfect bountiful board for two trout rillettes, pickled egg, local cheese, house pickles and spreads served with zingerman's farm bread
Board for Two
$12.00
A smaller version of our board of things. Perfect for two, or even one if you're feeling adventurous
**can be vegan