Cafe escargot/ Dine with a difference
Menu
Escargot Dishes (Snail dishes) starters
Six escargot in each dish, except for the Grande, which has thirty for escargot lovers.
Escargot garlic - escargot in garlic butter – 15.00 GF
French garlic butter escargot - in shells -20.00 GF
Crispy salt and pepper escargot - with aioli for dipping - 15.00 GF
Australian bush herbs escargot - crispy escargot seasoned with lemon myrtle and mountain pepper leaf, with chutney for dipping - 15.00 GF
Hot chilli escargot - let us know how you like it, mild or hot - 15.00 GF
Escargot a la crème - creamy fresh herb sauce served on ricotta gnocchi - 20.00
Escargot Mediterranean - oven-roasted tomatoes and capsicum served on ricotta gnocchi – 20 .00
Uno grande piatto di escargot - (A large plate of escargot) - thirty escargot in Mediterranean
sauce served with crusty bread, can be made with hot chilli - 38.00 GF
Entrée lunch or small meals
Antipasto
Italian sliced meats, local cheeses, olives, quince paste and other preserves - 25.00 GF ask for GF bread
Calamatta olives are grown locally and preserved by Vincenza.
Served with: olive oil, garlic, chilli (chilli optional) and bread. These are delicious. - 15.00 GF
Seafood dishes- entree or small meals.
Salt and pepper calamari rings - with aioli – with a small salad 22.00
Flathead tails - lightly beer-battered with aioli – with a small salad 22.00
Mini seafood basket- one of each prawn, flat head tail and calamari rings with a small salad 22.00
Meat dishes-entree or small meals.
Spanish meatballs – ten lamb and beef meatballs cooked in a rich tasty Italian tomato sauce and a small salad 22.00
Slow-cooked French beef pie - with chutney and a small salad -22.00
Beef Ragu slow-cooked - entrée size with in-house-made gnocchi, pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 25.00
Duck ragu entrée- slow-cooked duck drum stick with in-house-made gnocchi, pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 25.00
Chorizo dishes
Chorizo- tossed in tomato salad 20.00 GF
Chorizo -topped on patatas bravas 18.00
Salad and Vegetable Dishes
Garden salad – 15.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)
Seasonal or garden vegetables - bowl 15.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)
Patatas bravas - cubed rosemary sprinkled Mirboo North potatoes, topped with a rich Mediterranean tomato sauce- 18.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)
Bruschetta- tomato 18.00
Arancini – three arancini with a tasty cheese filling and topped with a Mediterranean sauce – with a small salad 22.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)
Croquettes- x 3 chicken and veggies in a mornay cheese sauce, topped with slow-cooked Italian tomato sauce Mediterranean sauce and a small salad 25.00
Meals for one- Lunch or Dinner
Seafood dishes
Calamari and chips meal - this dish comes with a side salad - pp25.00
Flathead tails and chips - served with a side salad served with Aioli - 22.00
Large seafood basket - two flat heads, two lightly battered prawns, calamari, chips and salad- 29.00
Poultry dishes
Chicken Crepes – in a cheese mornay sauce. Choice of cubed rosemary Mirboo (Gluten-free)
North potatoes, garden or seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 26.00
Duck Rague – pulled, slow-cooked duck in Italian tomato sauce served on house-made ricotta gnocchi - 32.00
Beef, Lamb and Pork dishes
Scotch fillet steak - choice of whiskey sauce, mushroom sauce, pepper sauce or garlic butter garden choice of garden or seasonal vegetables or salad and chips 35.00
Sticky beef ribs -slow-cooked with choice of seasonal vegetables or salad and chips 35.00
Slow-cooked beef ragu- Served with in-house-made gnocchi - pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 35.00
Spanish meatballs - topped with a rich and tasty tomato sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chips - 28.00
Home-made French beef pie - lots of delicious flavours accompanied by tomato chutney, choice of seasonal vegetables or salad and chips - 30.00
Lamb shank- slow cooked in wine and rosemary served on a bed of mash potato, seasonal vegetables or salad - 30.00
Rice and Pasta dishes
Arancini (Rice balls) - three arancini with tasty cheese centre topped mediterranean sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 28.00 (GF &Veg)
Croquettes- three per serve- chicken and veggie in a cheese mornay sauce - topped with a Mediterranean sauce and choice Salad chips or veggies and on the side 28.00 (GF)
Paella for 2 (allow 1 hour for this dish)
Chicken and chorizo or seafood (mild) (gluten-free) 50.00
Seafood with lots of yummy seafood (gluten-free) 60.00
Sweets and Cakes all made by Vincenza
All sweets served with a scoop of homemade ice cream.- 18.00 per serve
Baked ricotta cheesecake - (Vincenza’s signature dessert) with ricotta cheese, almonds and dark chocolate.
Hot chocolate pudding - oozing with dark decadent chocolate.
Cannoli- filled with half lemon and half chocolate crème patisserie.
Sticky date pudding
Churros – Spanish doughnuts with chocolate dipping sauce
Mini pavlova - with banana and passion fruit or seasonal berries (G.F)
Home-made ice cream - three scoops of ice cream (gluten-free)
Chocolate chestnut fudge cake (our chestnuts) (gluten-free) 15.00
HIGH TEA
Booking in advance is required for high tea - minimum 2 people - 50.00 pp
Hot savoury selection- Selection of four gourmet sandwiches - Variety of six mini home-made cakes and sweets
- bottomless Tea - Glass of bubbly
Hot Drinks
Cappuccino – 5.00, Latte- 5.00, Mugacino – 6.00, Short black – 7.00, Soy cappuccino – 7.00
Hazelnut hot chocolate - 7.50, Iced coffee - 7.50, Chai Latte – 7.50
Pot of tea – 5.00, Herbal tea - 5.00,- Rooibos, Fruit Summer Berries, a delicious blend of summer berries, summer -Peppermint- ask staff for more flavours as we have a vast variety
Alcoholic Coffees
1. Short black or long Black with a shot of brandy or Sambuca on the side – 15,00
2. Irish Coffee with Irish whiskey and Cream – 18.00
4. Café Escargot Mud with jack Daniels, Amaretto and cream – 18.00
Soft drinks
Coke, Lemonade, Sunkist, Lift - 3.50
Lemon Lime and Bitters, Soda water, Tonic water - 4.50, Juices -Apple juice, Orange juice - 4.00
Milkshakes Chocolate, Strawberry, Caramel, Blue Heaven - 5.50, Iced Coffee and Iced Chocolate - 5.50
Alcohol Menu were fully licenced
We source our wines from Victorian Wineries.
Vino di gippslandda is our label
White wine by the bottle
Chardonnay $35
Pinot Grigio $35
Brut $40.00
Prosecco fruity not sweet $40.
Izzy spritzer mini $12
Moscato mini $15
Cider $15
House white $8.00 per glass
Red wines
PinoNoir $35
Cab Sav $35
Shiraz $35
House red wine $8.00 per glass
Beer 8.00 stubby
Pure blond, great northern, Carlton draught, corona, crown, Peroni, 1664, Bira Moretti
Mixed drinks available $10 per shot
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Breakfast
Breakfast stack - two poached eggs with hollandaise spinach and bacon on Italian herbed toast – 22.00
Big breakfast- Chorizo, two fried eggs, bacon, spinach, mushrooms, fried tomatoes with two slices of toast on the side – 25.00
Scrambled eggs- x 2 with toast – 15.00
Scrambled eggs x 3 with chorizo on toast – 18.00
Potato and Chorizo omelette x 2 eggs – 20.00
Porridge- with dry fruit nuts, chia seeds and blueberries – 20.00
Vegetarian Breakfast- 2 fried eggs, spinach, mushrooms, fried tomatoes with two slices of toast on the side – 20.00
Pancake stack - with seasonal fruit ice-cream and cream or just with maple syrup – 20.00
Vegetarian and Vegan and Gluten-Free Dishes
Arancini (Rice balls) - three arancini with tasty cheese centre topped Mediterranean sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 26.00 (GF &Veg)
Mushroom risotto –( with mushroom medley when available) 26.00 ( GF &Veg)
Gnocchi - burnt butter sage - In house made - pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 30.00 (veg)
Quinoa, Black bean and veggie medley spiced with cumin (vegan)
Salads or veggie bowl - $18.00
Paella - Vegan - for two people. $40.00 allow one hour.
Lentil soup – vegan - 20.00
Ask what vegan sweets we have on the day, $20.00 per serve
for bookings call us on 0428883334
Christmas Menu
Christmas lunch menu
Its a banquet of 6 courses
Book now for Christmas day
also open for Christmas functions and work breakup.
call us on 56681589
Menu
Starters
Local cheeses and our olives, our dried tomatoes, Italian home made meats, plus more. and fresh bread (gluten free option available)
Entree
Seafood or a non seafood dish to be announced (gluten free option available)
Mains
Turkey, ham, pork, stuffing lots of roasted veggies with all the trimmings
Sweets
Plum pudding and custard,
or
Pavlova with Berries
With Coffee or tea
selection of Cakes.
To Finish you right off
Cherries and other fruit
Hammocks available to lay around in. all this for $100 per person
Bookings essential 03 56681589
will cater for gluten free ,vegetarians and vegans
book now for your xmas party