Odd Duck Launches a More Traditional Lunch Menu, Including a Burger

Bryce Gilmore and his team's transition from tiny small-plates driven Barley Swine the much larger and more complex Odd Duck has overall been wildly successful, but the ever-evolving restaurant is still tweaking its approach. Case in point: Odd Duck has relaunched their lunch menu today to de-emphasize small plates sharing and instead offer more traditional midday options like sandwiches, tacos, soups, and salads.

For the first time, the restaurant will also serve a burger, which according to a press release, "The team spent many sleepless nights perfecting." Said insomnia-inducing burger is $15, topped with "'tasty paste,' bleu cheese, green chile mayo, lettuce and onion" on a Parker house bun. The restaurant is also plainning to launch a new late night menu soon.

Here's the full menu:

Lunch Menu*

Everything sourdough bread, house cultured butter | 5

Beer battered sweet potato, peanuts, chiles, coconut, cilantro | 6

Pretzel, ham and cheese, mustard béchamel | 6

Roasted beets, curry, yogurt, potato, dill, cashews | 8

Sunchoke soup, apple, pumpkin seeds, brown butter | 7

Winter greens, chevre, sunchokes, apple, crouton | 9

Grilled carrots, avocado, red mole, orange, feta | 8

Pot pie, broccoli, mushroom, turnip, raclette | 12

Tostada, grilled octopus, mackerel, radish, pipian, lime | 10

Fried fish taco, seeds, sprouts, apple salsa | 14

Kolache, chicken, bacon, pickles, ranch | 10

Pig face cuban, smoked ham, swiss, chile mustard, pickles | 11

Beef tongue reuben, NY rye, sauerkraut, russian dressing | 11

Burger | 15

Honey cream, ginger sherbet, orange, rosemary | 7

Carrot cake doughnut, coconut rum raisin ice cream, cajeta, pecans | 9

Éclair, sunchoke cremeux, hazelnut diplomat, chocolate | 5

Sorbet: brown butter or toasted rice | $3 per scoop

Ice cream: chocolate or fennel | $3 per scoop

*subject to change