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Bacon Benedict

Smoked manuka streaky bacon, potato and sagyo cake, poached free range eggs, saffron hollandaise

$20
Spinach & mushrooms benedict

Saute wild mushroom & spinach, potato and sago cake, poached free range eggs, saffron hollandaise served with ciabbatta bread.

$18
Salmon Benedict

Lemon rubbed smoked salmon, sago and potato cake, poached free range eggs, saffron hollandaise served with ciabbatta bread.

$21
Essence Big Breakfast

House made potato cake, Manuka smoked bacon, roasted tomato, pork sausages, baked beans, choice of two eggs, served with Ciabatta.

$24
Three Egg Omelette

Three egg omelette with feta, pesto, chorizo, served with Rye bread and parmesan

$23
Essence brekki burger

Brioche bun with lettuce, sliced tomato, bacon, kransky, potato sago cake, fried egg, homemade aioli and fries.

$24
Organic granola

Organic granola, freshly cut fruits, yogurt, served with milk

$20
French toast

French toast with caramelised banana, smoked manuka bacon, grilled seasonal fruits with maple syrup & whipped.

$20
Balsamic creamy mushroom

Creamy balsamic mushroom served with grilled ciabatta, besil pesto and feta.

$19
Waffles

House made waffles, seasonal fruits, maple syrup, caramelised banana, bacon, icing sugar and vanilla cream.

$22
Pan cakes

Butter milk pancakes with fresh grilled fruits, berries compete’, Canadian maple syrup & whipped vanilla French cream

$20

ENTREE

Cheesy Potato Croquettes

Crumbed potato cheese croquettes with petit salad served with aioli.

$15
Pollo frutti

4pcs of buttermilk fried chicken served chips and house made aioli.

$16
Calamari

Paprika squid served with dicon salad & wasabi mayo.

$16
Frutti di verdure

Tempura battered seasonal vegetables served with the aioli.

$15
Frutti di pesce

Battered prawn, fish bites, scallops, crabsticks & calamari served with choice of your dipping

$16
Mussels

capers, smoked paprika, sliced onion, garlic, herbs, served with house made ciabbatta

$18
Sweet and sour pork

crispy pork sautéed in house made sweet and sour sauce served with petit salad

$17
Cheesy garlic bread

House made Ciabbatta bread garlic butter and cheese.

$15

MAINS

Market Fish

Pan seared and pattered fresh fish with chips, Salad served with Tatar Sauce & Ketchup.

$31
Portethouse Angus

250gms scotch fillet with, pea and mint puree, baked cheesy kumara and potato, creamy mushroom, port wine jue, garlic butter, vine tomatoes and seasonal veggies

$35
Pork Belly

Asian style coconut and green curry pork belly with bacon and cheese arancini, steamed dumplings, seasonal veggies, finished with bbq jue.

$33
Lamb shank

Braised lamb shank with creamy mash potato and seasonal veggies, finished lamb jue.

$32
Chicken or beef schnitzel

seasonal veggies & jue

$33
Fish of the Day

Please ask for the fish of the day, pan seared, or battered.

$31

RICE DISHES

Risotto al fungi

Creamy Arborio rice in wild mushroom ragout, garlic, chicken, garlic butter, finished with parmesan and truffle oil.

$31
Pumpkin risotto

Creamy Arborio rice in roasted pumpkin, chicken, crispy feta, finished with pesto drizzle and parmesan.

$32
Risotto con pollo e olive

Creamy Arborio rice, olives, herbs, chicken, garlic butter finished with olive oil and parmesan.

$29
Risotto alla marinara

Arborio rice, prawns, mussels, fish bites, squid, octopus, lemon and slow cooked confit tomato sauce

$30

PASTAS

Penne Arabiatta

Penne pasta with spicy tomato sauce, bacon, cherry tomato finished with garlic butter.

$23
Spaghetti Alfredo

Spaghetti in creamy sauce, cherry tomato, olives, mushroom, onion, capsicum, and chicken finished with garlic butter and parmesan.

$28
Penne Vodka

Penne pasta in tomato & creamy sauce, prawns, smoked paprika, & vodka finished with parsley

$26
Fusilli Paprika

Fusilli pasta in tomato & creamy sauce, chicken, smoked paprika, capsicum, onions, and olives.

$26
Spaghetti Seafood

Spaghetti with seafood, prawns, mussels, fresh fish, baby octopus and squid freshly sautéed in garlic and a slow cooked seafood tomato sauce.

$26
Spaghetti Carbonara

Spaghetti pasta with creamy sauce, mushroom &bacon finished with peppercorns

$27
Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli

Ravioli pasta, creamy chives sauce finished with parmesan.Add bacon $6

$28
Fussilli con feta ala Greeca

Fussilli pasta with capsicum, olives, onion, cherry tomato, in basil tomato sauce, finished with garlic butter and olive oil

$26
Fussilli Con Pollo fungi

Fussilli pasta in creamy wild mushroom sauce, chicken, olives, finished with garlic butter, truffle oil, and parmesan

$27
Spaghetti Con Pollo

Spaghetti in pesto, chicken, cherry tomato, mushroom, olives, onions, truffle oil, finished with pine nuts and parmesan.

$27
Spaghetti Genovese

Spaghetti pasta in pesto, onion, chicken, herbs, garlic, finished with pine nuts and parmesan.

$24
Add on

Bacon, chicken, prawns

$4/5/6

BURGERS

Beef burger

Angus meat patty, bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries.

$26
Lamb burger

Lamb patty, smoked cheddar cheese, bacon, tomatoes, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries

$26
Chicken burger

Cajun chicken, bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato,mayo, ketchup, brioche bun served with fries.

$26
Fish burger

Fresh fish, crisp lettuce,tomato, cheese, tartar sauce, ketchup on brioche bun served with fries.

$26
Veggie burger

House made potato patty, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries.

$26

KIDS

Macaroni pasta

Macaroni pasta with cheesy cream sauce

$15
Chicken Fingers

House made Chicken fingers with chips served with ketchup

$14
Fish bites

Tempura fish bites with chips served with ketchup

$14
Pan cakes

Buttermilk pan cakes with Maple syrup and whipped cream

$15

SALADS

Southern salad

Chicken, bacon, avocado, mesclun, cherry tomatoes, feta, onion, with French vinaigrette dressing

$21
Classic Caesar

Mesclun, grilled bacon, anchovies, croutons and shaved parmesan toasted in our house-made Caesar dressing, egg, seasoned with black pepper

$22
caprese

bocconcini cheese, salad leaves, tomato, whipped feta, pesto, balsamic drizzle.

$19

SIDES

Fries

With aioli and ketchup

$10
Polenta chips

Served with peri-peri sauce

$12
Loaded fries

Bacon, cheese, sour cream, served with aioli and ketchup

$18
Cheesy garlic bread

Bread served with garlic butter and cheese

$13
Side salad

Mesclun, cherry tomatoes, sliced onion, parmesan, with honey lemon dressing.

$12
Cream of spinach

-

$14

DESSERTS

Polenta cake

House made polenta cake with drizzled chocolate sauce, biscotti, fresh seasonal fruits & Berry Compote.

$14
Sizzling brownie

Caramel brownie served on hot plate with vanilla ice-cream and sizzling chocolate sauce.

$14
Mango and boysenberry cheese cake

Fusion desserts of cheese cake and tiramisu, served with pine apple salsa, raspberry pulp, and chocolate soil.

$16
Deep fried ice cream

Vanilla ice-cream coated with cinnamon flakes

$14
Gelato & sorbet

Two scoops of gelato and one scoop of sorbet.

$13
Kids brownie or kids Sunday

-

$12
Affagato

Add Liqueur 6

$10

TO FINISH

Special Coffee

Whisky, Khaliua, Tia maria with double shot espresso and whipped cream

$14
Port

Served with peri-peri sauce

$12
Limoncello

Bacon, cheese, sour cream, served with aioli and ketchup

$12
Coffee & Tea

Bread served with garlic butter and cheese

$-

ENTRÉE

Cheesy Potato Croquettes

Crumbed potato cheese croquettes with petit salad served with aioli.

$14
Pollo frutti

4pcs of buttermilk fried chicken served chips and house made aioli.

$-
Calamari

Paprika squid served with dicon salad & wasabi mayo.

$16
Frutti di verdure

Tempura battered seasonal vegetables served with the aioli.

$16
Frutti di pesce

Battered prawn, fish bites, scallops, crabsticks & calamari served with choice of your dipping

$17
mussels

capers, smoked paprika, sliced onion, garlic, herbs, served with house made ciabbatta

$15
Sweet and sour pork

crispy pork sautéed in house made sweet and sour sauce served with petit salad

$-
Cheesy garlic bread

House made Ciabbatta bread garlic butter and cheese.

$15
Antipasto

-

$-

MAINS

PORTERHOUSE ANGUS

250gms scotch fillet with, pea and mint puree, baked cheesy kumara and potato, creamy mushroom, port wine jue, garlic butter, vine tomatoes and seasonal veggies

$3
Pork Belly

Asian style coconut and green curry pork belly with bacon and cheese arancini, steamed dumplings, seasonal veggies, finished with bbq jue.

$32
Lamb shank

Braised lamb shank with creamy mash potato and seasonal veggies, finished lamb jue.

$33
Chicken or beef schnitzel

seasonal veggies & jue

$32
Fish of the Day

Please ask for the fish of the day, pan seared, or battered.

$31
Fish and chips

Battered fresh fish, chips and salad, served with tartar sauce and ketchup

$29

PASTAS

Penne Arabiatta

Penne pasta with spicy tomato sauce, bacon, cherry tomato finished with garlic butter.

$19
Spaghetti Alfredo

Spaghetti in creamy sauce, cherry tomato, olives, mushroom, onion, capsicum, and chicken finished with garlic butter and parmesan.

$21
Penne Vodka

Penne pasta in tomato & creamy sauce, prawns, smoked paprika, & vodka finished with parsley

$19
Fusilli Paprika

Fusilli pasta in tomato & creamy sauce, chicken, smoked paprika, capsicum, onions, and olives.

$20
Spaghetti Seafood

Spaghetti with seafood, prawns, mussels, fresh fish, baby octopus and squid freshly sautéed in garlic and a slow cooked seafood tomato sauce.

$20
Spaghetti Carbonara-

Spaghetti pasta with creamy sauce, mushroom &bacon finished with peppercorns.

$19
Spinach and Ricotta Ravioli

Ravioli pasta, creamy chives sauce finished with parmesan. Add bacon $6

$19
Fussilli con feta ala Greeca

Fussilli pasta with capsicum, olives, onion, cherry tomato, in basil tomato sauce, finished with garlic butter and olive oil

$-
Fussilli Con Pollo fungi

Fussilli pasta in creamy wild mushroom sauce, chicken, olives, finished with garlic butter, truffle oil, and parmesan.

$19
Spaghetti Con Pollo pesto

Spaghetti in pesto, chicken, cherry tomato, mushroom, olives, onions, truffle oil, finished with pine nuts and parmesan.

$19
Spaghetti Genovese

Spaghetti pasta in pesto, onion, chicken, herbs, garlic, finished with pine nuts and parmesan.

$19
Add on

Bacon, chicken, prawns

$4/5/6

BURGERS

Beef burger

Angus meat patty, bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries.

$19
Lamb burger

Lamb patty, smoked cheddar cheese, bacon, tomatoes, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries

$20
Chicken burger

Cajun chicken, bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato,mayo, ketchup, brioche bun served with fries.

$18
Fish burger

Fresh fish, crisp lettuce,tomato, cheese, tartar sauce, ketchup on brioche bun served with fries.

$18
Veggie burger

House made potato patty, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, mayo, ketchup, on brioche bun served with fries.

$18

RISOTTO

Risotto al fungi

Creamy Arborio rice in wild mushroom ragout, garlic, chicken, garlic butter, finished with parmesan and truffle oil.

$-
Pumpkin risotto

Creamy Arborio rice in roasted pumpkin, chicken, crispy feta, finished with pesto drizzle and parmesan.

$-
Risotto con pollo e olive

Creamy Arborio rice, olives, herbs, chicken, garlic butter finished with olive oil and parmesan.

$-
Risotto alla marinara

Arborio rice, prawns, mussels, fish bites, squid, octopus, lemon and slow cooked confit tomato sauce.

$-

SALADS

Southern salad

Chicken, bacon, avocado, mesclun, cherry tomatoes, feta, onion, with French vinaigrette dressing

$15
Classic Caesar

Mesclun, grilled bacon, anchovies, croutons and shaved parmesan toasted in our house-made Caesar dressing, egg, seasoned with black pepper

$14
caprese

bocconcini cheese, salad leaves, tomato, whipped feta, pesto, balsamic drizzle.

$13

KIDS

Macaroni pasta

Macaroni pasta with cheesy cream sauce

$15
Chicken nuggets

Nuggets with chips served with ketchup

$12
Fish bites

Tempura fish bites with chips served with ketchup

$12
Pancakes

Buttermilk pan cakes with Maple syrup and whipped cream

$15

DESSERTS

Polenta cake

House made polenta cake with drizzled chocolate sauce, biscotti, fresh seasonal fruits & Berry Compote.

$15
Sizzling brownie

Caramel brownie served on hot plate with vanilla ice-cream and sizzling chocolate sauce.

$14
Mango and boysenberry cheese cake

Fusion desserts of cheese cake and tiramisu, served with pine apple salsa, raspberry pulp, and chocolate soil.

$15
Deep fried ice cream

Vanilla ice-cream coated with cinnamon flakes

$13
Gelato & sorbet

Two scoops of gelato and one scoop of sorbet.

$10
Kids brownie or kids Sunday

-

$10

SIDES

Fries

With aioli and ketchup

$7
Polenta chips

Served with peri-peri sauce

$8
Loaded fries

Bacon, cheese, sour cream, served with aioli and ketchup

$12
Cheesy garlic bread

Bread served with garlic butter and cheese

$13
Side salad

Mesclun, cherry tomatoes, sliced onion, parmesan, with honey lemon dressing.

$12
Cream of spinach

-

$-

SPARKLING

Henkell trocken brut,germany

200ml

$16
Henkell trocken rose, germany

200ml

$15
Canti prosecco, Italy

200ml

$16

SAUVIGNON BLANC

Growers mark, Marlborough

11

$50
Jules taylor, Marlborough

13

$60

Chardonnay

The makers knighthood, gisborne

11

$50
Jules taylor, Marlborough

13

$60

Aromatics

Dusky sounds pinot gris, south island NZ

12

$55
Duck hunter pinot gris, Marlborough

12

$55
Lake charlice the falcon reisling, Marlborough

10

$50

Rose

Waipara hills rose, central otago

12

$55

Pinot noir

Mud house, central otago

12

$55
Allan scott black labl, Marlborough

12

$55

Merlot

Dusky sounds, south Australia

11

$50

Cabernet sauvignon

Grant burge in, Barossa vally

12

$55

Malbec & shiraz

Chakana malbec, Mendoza

12

$55
Grant burge ink shiraz, Barossa vally

12

$55

Cocktails

Berry smash

-

$18
Rose bud

-

$18
Tiramisu expresso martini

Finland vodka kahlua, baileys, expresso shot, cocoa powder.

$18
Cosmopolitan

-

$18
Sunset

-

$18
Blue logon

-

$18
Bounty hunter

-

$18
Mimosa

-

$18
Long island iced tea

-

$21
Moctails

-

$-
Berry smash

-

$-
Rose bud

-

$-
Blue lagoon

-

$-

Sprirts & liqueurs

Single shot

Please ask our friendly stafff our selection

$10
Double shot

Please ask our friendly stafff our selection

$12

Special coffee

Special coffee

Tia maria, kahlua, brandy, baileys, or irish whiskey

$16

Digestifs

Digestifs

Taylors 10 yers old Pallini Italian lemoncello

$12

Beers - On Tap

Carlsberg

-

$11
Boundary road brewery hazy pale ale

-

$11

Bottle beer & cider

Somersby apple cider

-

$10
Speights old dark

-

$10
Tui

-

$10
Export gold

-

$10
Exort 33

-

$10
Export low carb

-

$10
Monteiths black

-

$11
Monteiths orginal

-

$11
Corona

-

$10
Heineken

-

$10
Steinlarger classic

-

$10
Heineken 0%

-

$10

Cold beverages

Cold beverages

Coke, lemonade, fanta, coke zero, sprite zero, gingerale, tonic water, soda water

$6
ginger beer

-

$6.5
lemon lime bitters

-

$7
iced coffee, iced mocha, iced chocolate

-

$7.5
fruit juice

orange, apple, grapefruit, cranberry, tomato, spice tomato.

$6.5

Tea

Tea

English breakfast tea, earl grey, peppermint Red vanilla raspberry, chai, berrylicious, chamomile, Fabulous fejioa, gun powder green, white peach, Red African fire, strawberry kiwi, kawakawa fire.

$5.50

Coffee

Small coffee

Latte, flatwhite, shortblack, long black, macchiato, cappuccino, Mochaccino, Vienna, hot chocolate, chai latte.

$4.50
Regular coffee

Latte, flatwhite, shortblack, long black, macchiato, cappuccino, Mochaccino, Vienna, hot chocolate, chai latte.

$5.50
Large coffee

Latte, flatwhite, shortblack, long black, macchiato, cappuccino, Mochaccino, Vienna, hot chocolate, chai latte.

$6.50

Smoothies

kids

Berry, banana, mango.

$6
Regular

Berry, banana, mango.

$10

Milkshakes

Kids

Vanilla, chocolate, caramel, banana, raspberry, lime

$6
Regular

Vanilla, chocolate, caramel, banana, raspberry, lime

$9.50
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