Banquet and dinner menus

Dinner

All mains are served with plated seasonal vegetables. Choose (per person):

  • $60.00 - 1 entree, 2 mains (alternate serve) and 1 dessert
  • $65.00 - 1 entree, 2 mains (choice) and 1 dessert

Breads

  • Selection of gourmet breads and dips on the table.

Soups

  • Seafood chowder with lemon oil crispy bacon and bread sticks
  • Roasted garlic and pumpkin soup with chilli sour cream and crispy potato straws

Entrees

  • Smoked Canterbury lamb served Nicoise style
  • Roasted chicken, kumara and bacon Terrine with toasted baguette and a Pinot Noir onion marmalade
  • Hot smoked Akaroa salmon with pickled cucumber, Saffron potatoes and a caper aioli
  • Smoked chicken and mango salad with cucumber, mesclun and a balsamic dressing
  • Tuscan salad - Rock melon, Prosciutto, Nashi pear, semi dried tomatoes and Parmesan, served with Mesclun leaves and a lime dressing

Mains

Chicken

  • Chicken breast with a feta and green herb crust, warm ratatouille salsa and potato cake
  • Oven roasted chicken with a cashew and mustard crust on a carrot, potato and cumin seed crush, with a red pepper coulis
  • Baked chicken breast stuffed with asparagus spears and basil pesto cream cheese on a garlic and spring onion mash with a smoked tomato salsa and red wine jus
  • Chicken breast with a pine nut, spinach and goats cheese farce and Provencal sauce

Fish

  • Baked blue cod with spinach, Parmesan and lemon crust with a smoked tomato salad on a pumpkin risotto cake
  • Crispy skin salmon fillet with mango chutney, Bombay potatoes and a yoghurt and cucumber dressing

Pork

  • Manuka honey braised pork loin with a sage and apple mash and drizzled with a Shiraz Jus

Beef

  • Seared scotch fillet with porcini mushroom seasoning wilted spinach on a potato and bacon rosti and red wine jus
  • Individual Beef Wellington with bacon, mushroom duxel in puff pastry with creamed potato honey glazed carrots and port wine reduction
  • Braised scotch fillet in red wine and thyme with sauted potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Lamb

  • Herb crusted Central Otago lamb rack with and apricot, pine nut and basil couscous with a smoked tomato jus
  • Slow cooked rump of lamb with rosemary and garlic on olive mash with saut'ed greens and home dried tomato and basil dressing
  • Braised lamb shank with roasted root vegetables herb mash and braising liquor
  • Roasted lamb rump with a fennel and lemon seasoning, wilted spinach, lightly curried kumara rosti and red wine jus

Desserts

  • Chocolate platters to the table - 2 per table of chocolate truffles, mini chocolate cups filled with white chocolate mousse, mini lamingtons and mini chocolate eclairs
  • Sour lemon tart with mulled wine berries and cream Chantilly
  • Poached red wine pears chilled with amaretto cream and biscotti
  • Chocolate tart orange anglaise espresso cream and chocolate wafer
  • Mixed berry brulee with homemade shortbread and berry essence

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Dinner buffets

$35.00 per person

Bread

  • Gourmet bread selection and dips on the tables

Salad selection

  • Cucumber and tomato garden salad
  • Potato and golden Kumara salad with roasted garlic mayonnaise and crispy bacon
  • Smoked chicken and sun dried tomato pasta salad

Hot selection

  • Slow simmered chicken with bacon and mushrooms in a wholegrain cream sauce
  • Moroccan beef and tomato Tagine
  • Rice pilaf

Accompanied by

Creamy garlic potatoes

Steamed broccoli and cauliflower

Honey glazed carrot batons

Desserts

  • Apple and berry crumble with custard and cream
  • Fresh fruit platters

$40.00 per person

Bread

  • Gourmet bread selection with dips on the tables

Salad selection

  • Cucumber and tomato garden salad
  • Potato and golden Kumara salad with roasted garlic mayonnaise and crispy bacon
  • Smoked chicken and sun dried tomato pasta salad
  • Classic Caesar salad

Hot selection

  • Baked fish fillets in cream and ginger with parsley and lemon
  • Buttered chicken with honey-roasted kumara
  • Thai vegetable noodle stirfry

From the carvery

  • Hot carved ham on the bone with mustards and gravy

Accompanied by

  • Steamed long grain rice
  • Broccoli and cauliflower
  • Roasted pumpkin and garlic
  • Baked gourmet potato Provencal

Desserts

  • Chocolate mud cake
  • Chef's selection cheesecake
  • Sour lemon tart
  • Fresh whipped cream Chantilly
  • Fresh fruit platters

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$45.00 per person

Bread

  • Gourmet bread selection with dips on the tables

Salad selection

  • Cucumber and tomato garden salad
  • Potato and golden Kumara salad with roasted garlic mayonnaise and crispy bacon
  • Smoked chicken and sun dried tomato pasta salad
  • Chorizo, green bean and roasted red pepper salad

From the larder

  • Continental meat platter with condiments
  • Southern seafood selection platter

Hot selection

  • Braised chicken with tomato and rosemary
  • Vegetarian ravioli in a white wine and cream sauce
  • Thai vegetable noodle stirfry

From the carvery

  • Hot carved ham off the bone with mustards and gravy
  • Roasted Angus beef with gravy and horseradish cream
  • Slow roasted lamb with garlic, rosemary and fennel with gravy and mint sauce
  • Roasted loin of pork with applesauce and ginger sauce

Accompanied by

  • Honey glazed carrots
  • Broccoli, cauliflower and courgette medley
  • Roasted pumpkin, kumara and parsnip
  • Creamy garlic and thyme potatoes

Desserts

  • Sticky date pudding with toffee anglaise
  • Individual chocolate and vanilla mousse pots
  • Sour lemon tart with berry compote
  • Fresh fruit platters

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$50.00 per person

Bread

  • Gourmet bread selection on the tables with dips

Salad selection

  • Marinated mushroom, red onion and spring onion salad
  • Cucumber and tomato green salad
  • Chorizo, green bean and roasted red pepper salad

From the larder

  • Seafood platters with shrimps and half-shelled marinated mussels
  • Continental meat platter with shaved smoked chicken, salami, roast pork and condiments

Hot selection

  • Braised chicken in Provencal vegetables with Oregano
  • Fresh fish fillets in a cream and ginger sauce with parsley and lemon
  • Vegetarian Tortellini with a tomato and herb sauce

From the carvery

  • Hot carved ham off the bone with mustards and gravy
  • Slow roasted lamb with garlic, Rosemary and Fennel stuffing

Accompanied by

  • Medley of seasonal vegetables
  • Herb roasted gourmet potatoes
  • Honey glazed carrots and parsnips

Desserts

  • Fresh fruit flans
  • Coffee and chocolate cheesecake
  • Apple and blueberry crumble with whipped cream
  • Chocolate eclairs
  • Fresh fruit platters

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Optional extras

These can be added to any buffet option per dish:

$4.00 per person

  • Beef Wellington with a red wine sauce
  • Poached whole decorated salmon with condiments
  • Half-shelled oysters
  • Carved lamb racks with gravy and mint sauce
  • Carved stuffed turkey breast with cranberry sauce
  • Hot carved ham off the bone with mustards and gravy

Last reviewed: 24 Jul 2008 2:03pm

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