From desserts to cocktails, figs are popping up on restaurant menus everywhere. Here are four dishes that spotlight this au courant fruit.
Drink: At BLT Burger in New York, a spiked shake—the Big Fig—blends vanilla ice cream, vanilla cupcake, Cockburn’s 10-year-old tawny port, fig preserves, and fig syrup.Appetizer: Chef Christopher Ennis of Los Angeles’s One Sunset pairs tenderloin of beef carpaccio with whiskey- and honey-marinated golden figs, melted Saga cheese croutons, and truffled Sichuan saba.
Entrée: New York’s Klee Brasserie serves baked chicken with figs, rosemary, braised fennel, and black truffle.
Dessert: Sonoma, California-based the Girl & the Fig serves a fig and thyme crisp.
Drink: At BLT Burger in New York, a spiked shake—the Big Fig—blends vanilla ice cream, vanilla cupcake, Cockburn’s 10-year-old tawny port, fig preserves, and fig syrup.Appetizer: Chef Christopher Ennis of Los Angeles’s One Sunset pairs tenderloin of beef carpaccio with whiskey- and honey-marinated golden figs, melted Saga cheese croutons, and truffled Sichuan saba.
Entrée: New York’s Klee Brasserie serves baked chicken with figs, rosemary, braised fennel, and black truffle.
Dessert: Sonoma, California-based the Girl & the Fig serves a fig and thyme crisp.

The Big Fig shake from BLT Burger.
Photo: Francis Janisch/Courtesy of BLT Restaurants

The Big Fig shake from BLT Burger.
Photo: Francis Janisch/Courtesy of BLT Restaurants

One Sunset's tenderloin of beef carpaccio with marinated golden figs.
Photo: BizBash

Klee Brasserie's baked chicken with figs.
Photo: Courtesy of the Hall Company

Fig and thyme crisp from the Girl and the Fig.
Photo: Courtesy of the Girl and the Fig