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Hoffstot’s Cafe Monaco

Hoffstot's Cafe Monaco
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Type of Business: Restaurant
Cuisine: American
Price: $$$
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Hoffstot's Cafe Monaco
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Hoffstot's is an elegant Italian restaurant with delicious food made from scratch. Their soups and sauces are made from broths that are all made in-house. They accept reservations or walk-ins, you can dine in or carry out, or also request a set menu for a large gathering in the restaurant or arrange for catering to be brought to another location.

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1. From Scratch: Serves mostly (i.e., more than half of the menu) fresh food, prepared from scratch. Does NOT rely primarily on kits or prepared/partially prepared foods from commercial food services.
Yes
2. Local/Organic: Offers at least some locally sourced and/or organically produced food and/or wild-caught seafood.
Yes
3. Pastured: Offers at least some pastured animal foods.
No
4. Organs: Offers some dishes made with organ meats (liver/paté, sweetbreads, heart, kidney, brains, etc.).
Yes
5. Cooking Fats: Cooks (sautés) in natural fats such as butter, lard, tallow, duck fat, coconut oil, or olive oil; uses lard, duck fat, or tallow for frying.
No
6. Bone Broth: Makes own bone broths/stocks for use in soups, stews, gravies, and sauces (does NOT use canned broth or powdered soup bases).
Yes
7. Seasonings: Makes most of its own seasoning mixes (does NOT use flavoring packets or MSG).
Yes
8. Salad oils: Makes most of its own salad dressings using olive oil or cold-pressed sesame oil.
Yes
9. Breads: Offers genuine sourdough bread.
No
10. Beverages: Offers lacto-fermented beverages (such as kombucha or kvass).
No
11. Condiments: Offers lacto-fermented condiments.
No
12. Desserts: Offers desserts made with natural sweeteners (such as raw honey, maple syrup, maple sugar, molasses, date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, sorghum syrup, or malt syrup).
No
Comments: Most of the food is made from scratch. They use locally produced ricotta cheese, but I don't know of any other local products, and the ricotta is not organic. The shrimp is wild-caught, possibly other seafood is as well. The only organ meat that I know they serve is tripe. They regularly have huge pots of bone broth simmering in the prep rooms. Most of the house-made dressings (or the purchased dressings) are unfortunately made with soybean oil (and sugar), but I believe the oil-and-vinegar option is actually olive oil. There is plenty here to be cautious about, but they certainly deserve at least a couple of spoons. I have worked there in food preparation for just over a year, though just part time, mainly on weekends. Other things to ask about and look out for are sugar content and microwave use. When I request my employee meal, I nearly always just get grilled chicken and vegetables, and take some real butter from the server station to melt over the food myself.[end character limit]
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Location & Contact


533 Allegheny Avenue
Oakmont, PA
Hoffstot’s Cafe Monaco
412-828-8555

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