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> $45 Per Person
> $55 Per Person
 
 
 


$55 FUNCTION MENU

Menu Items are Subject to Change
Fresh bread with whipped butter, roasted garlic, & kalamata olives are served before the appetizers
 

Appetizers

Please choose three & try to limit one option per station (in parentheses).

Maine Crab Cake (salad)
Served over baby greens with tomato wasabi remoulade.

Roasted Pear & Radicchio (salad)
Gorgonzola filled pear, oven-roasted and served with dressed radicchio, dried cranberries, pepitos & a port wine glaze. 

Calamari (salad)
Lightly seasoned calamari, deep fried & served over a green chili & tomato sauce. Garnished with bitter greens tossed with a bleu cheese vinaigrette.

Steamed Mussels (saute)
With a ginger saffron cream, lemongrass, scallions, jalapenos, tomatoes, garlic, shallots & fines herbs.

Soup du Jour (grill)
Loaded with fresh seafood, changes daily. 

Shrimp Cocktail (raw bar) 
Served with our house cocktail sauce, a spicy and zesty house specialty served with fresh prepared horseradish & lemon wedges. 

Salmon Tartare* (raw bar)
Grade A Salmon dressed with a light Tarragon, citrus & mustard sauce. Topped with a house cured gravlax & caviar.

Tuna Avocado* (raw bar)
A timbale of fresh, diced, raw tuna, avocado & mint; tossed in a marinade of galangal, shallots & crushed peanuts.
 

*please select only one.

Salads

Mixed Green Salad
With our house vinaigrette

Straight Up Caesar Salad

Entrées

Please choose four.
Entrees are served with sour cream & chive Red Bliss mashed potatoes, fresh green beans with sauteed zucchini, summer squash & roasted peppers & a choice of sauce.


Pan Seared Yellow Fin Tuna
Seared to desired temperature & served with a mandarin sesame glaze and wasabi aioli.

Cuban Fisherman's Stew
P.E.I. mussels, fresh fish, shrimp, stewed chicken & black beans simmered in a Cuban sytle stew, garnished with fresh cilantro. Served with grilled ciabatta bread.

Haddock Picatta (not a fish lover... we'll make it with chicken too!)
Lightly breaded fillet or half chicken breast pan seared in brown butter, finished with a lemon, caper, butter sauce.

Pan Seared Diver Scallops
Pan seared diver scallops tossed with baby spinach & minced shallots. Served with lobster veloute. 

Grilled NY Sirloin Steak
Grilled to your desired temperature, finished with a Shiso shallot butter.

Grilled Fresh Catch (Fish options will change daily)

 

Dessert

 Servers offer daily selections.
 

 

 

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Jumpin’ Jays is located on 150 Congress St. in scenic Portsmouth, NH. Make a reservation on-line at www.opentable.com or call us today, at 603.766.FISH (3474).