Encore Restaurant: Summer Goodness

Summer is here at last and we are making good use of it on our summer menu.  Stone fruits are a feature with our slow cooked chicken, apricot and basil with flambéed apricots and pea pilaf. Roasted plum make for a sweet and tart accompaniment for the goats cheese and eggplant terrine while fresh nectarines are served up with mint and a classic rum baba with Manuka custard for dessert.

Proving popular is our fish of the day with spring onion, lemon, soy and ginger salsa on a bed of eggplant and cardamom mash.  Venison is a new dish done beautifully with a red currant and wine jus, squash and sweet red onion. And who could go past a mousse au chocolate in chocolate shell with Frangelico macerated strawberries.

With salmon being in good supply we are making a Scandinavian style gravlax with in season snowpeas, parsnip and mustard sauce for an entrée  And with fusion being a particular theme this menu we have a sesame crusted beef salad with capsicum coulis and green tea soba noodles.  Finish off with a refreshing pink grapefruit and coconut pudding, passionfruit and pawpaw.

Let’s hope we’re in for a long hot summer!

Jacinta Saeki

Head Chef

Encore Restaurant

SUMMER DINNER MENU

Our food philosophy encompasses these key components: quality seasonal ingredients, nutritional balance, great value, visual appeal and creativity, exceptional combination of flavours, versatility, and adaptability.

Starters

Olives, marinated and juicy with sourdough $9

Bread and three dips $10

Meze plate: antipasto bites, dips and bread for 1$15     for 2  $25

Soup of the Day with sourdough $10

Baked Goats Cheese & eggplant terrine, salsa verde, roasted plum $14

Rare beef sesame crusted, green tea soba noodles, watercress, roast capsicum coulis $17

Cured Salmon Salad, snowpea, roasted parsnip, pinenuts, tamarind mustard dressing $18

Main

Pan-fried Market Fish, ginger spring onion salsa, soy, eggplant, cardamom mash $28

Free-range Chicken slow cooked, flambéed apricot, basil, green pea pilaf $28

Rib-eye Steak, hashed potato kumara, roast tomato, green beans, jus $32

Junipered Venison, roasted squash, sweet red onion, red currant jus $32

Grilled eggplant, zucchini, capsicum skewers, quinoa salad, tahini dressing $20

Sides

Potato kumara hashed $7

Garden Salad with dijon dressing $6

Vegetables seasonal with balsamic $6

Dessert

Grapefruit Coconut Pudding, papaya, passionfruit, almond tuille $12

Rum Baba, manuka honey custard, nectarine and mint salad $13

Mousse au chocolat in chocolate shell, Frangelico macerated strawberries $14

Cheese of the day, lavosh, biscotti, jalapeno relish, fruit chutney $16     

                                                                                                                                          

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We use: corn-fed free range chicken and eggs; free farmed pork and meat from Eastbourne Village Meats; Zany Zeus organic dairy products.

Please ask our staff about gluten and dairy free options.

HOURS: Tuesday to Saturday 5pm-8.30pm

  Sunday Roast ($22) 6pm bookings essential

RESERVATIONS: 04 801 7996