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
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
$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
$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
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





