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The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone is all about food, mostly for its students who come from across the country to learn how to cook. But now, the academy has opened a place for the public to enjoy the final results, with the new Gatehouse Restaurant. Orchestrated by CIA faculty-led students, Gatehouse Restaurant is the showcase professional experience for CIA students who have completed two years of culinary, baking and pastry, hospitality and beverage management instruction at the school. Serving pre-fixe meals Tuesday through Saturday, it does close for school holidays like spring break, but that’s just part of the natural, expected operation of a student-run restaurant. Drawing from the academy’s on-site culinary garden, menus are seasonal and produce-centric, as three courses for $39 and four courses for $49. Here’s a mouthwatering sample: Beginnings Roasted Beet Tart Skyhill goat cheese, tarragon aioli, pickled leeks Quinoa and Mandarin Orange Salad English peas, beets, avocado Shaved Endive and Apple Salad black walnut crusted Skyhill goat cheese Duroc Pork Rillettes marinated olives, buttermilk crackers Delicate Warm Sunchoke and Celery Root Soup duck prosciutto, preserved lemon, Parmesan Pan Fried Ricotta Gnudi Mendocino mushrooms, green garlic, brown butter, aged balsamic Whey Poached Spring Asparagus poached farm egg, chicken confit, pancetta, hollandaise gratinee Robust Twelve Hour Braised Lamb Neck kale, red cabbage, turnips, rosemary-mustard jus Herb Crusted Mount Lassen Trout Pacific bay shrimp, cranberry bean relish, champagne sauce Baby Zucchini Risotto arugula pesto, sweet peas, shaved radish Seared Five Dot Ranch Strip Loin cauliflower puree, pan fried parsley gnocchi, vintage port wine reduction Sweets Warm Oatmeal Cake cinnamon whipped cream Valrhona Chocolate Pot de Crème brown butter chocolate chip cookies Smoked Strawberry Gelee vanilla panna cotta, white chocolate pearls Lemon-Blueberry Cheesecake candied lemon, glass sugar Details: 2555 Main Street, St. Helena, 707-967-2300, ciagatehouserestaurant.com.