The food
Homemade, home grown, home produced. The choice is yours.
Northern Italian cooking, done at volume without tasting like it. Pasta made on the bench, a complimentary antipasto platter to start, and brewed coffee with something sweet to finish. Minimum 30 guests. Personalised menus available, and special dietary needs catered for.
Sit-down meal
Antipasto
Complimentary platter — salami, ham, stuffed olives, cheeses, sundried tomatoes, artichokes and marinated mushrooms, with fresh bread baked locally.
Pasta
Lasagna, gnocchi, fettucine, macaroni, spaghetti, cannelloni. Sauces: bolognese, pesto, carbonara, or Italian meatballs in a rich tomato sauce. Cannelloni with spinach and ricotta.
Soup
Minestrone, chicken broth and noodles, creamy pumpkin.
Roasts
Roast beef, lamb and pork. Chicken or veal parmigiana.
Traditional
Chicken scaloppine, veal saltimbocca, veal scaloppine with mushrooms, baked girello, quail and polenta, Italian sausages, spezzatino.
Salads
Tossed, Greek, noodle, pasta, potato, tuna rice, vegetable rice, bean, rocket and roast pumpkin.
Vegetables
Scalloped potatoes, roast potato and pumpkin, cauliflower bake, caramelised carrots, beans, peas, or a medley.
Dessert
Tiramisu, lemon tart, sticky date pudding, lemon cheesecake, meringues, mud cake, chocolate mousse, fruit salad and ice cream.
To finish
Complimentary brewed coffee and tea, with rum balls, friands, cookies or lemon slice.
Finger food
Hot
Arancini, spicy meatballs, gourmet sausage rolls, spring rolls, garlic chicken balls, crumbed mushrooms, spinach croquettes, vol-au-vents, fish bites.
Skewers
Marinated kebabs, chicken skewers, lamb skewers or koftas, prawn skewers.
Cold
Bruschetta, rice paper rolls, bocconcini bites, cherry tomato and bocconcini, cantaloupe and prosciutto, smoked trout, spinach cob loaf, focaccia strips.
Noodle boxes
Fish and chip cones, salt and pepper squid, gnocchi, Thai beef salad. Cocktail service only.
Weddings
Canapés
Antipasto platter, then a selection: bruschetta (pesto, tomato salsa, salmon, chicken with mango and avocado), fig, bocconcini and prosciutto in season, chipolatas with pulled pork, cherry tomato and bocconcini, arancini, mini spring rolls, garlic chicken balls, lamb koftas, prawn skewers, vol-au-vents, gourmet sausage rolls, spinach croquettes, fish bites.
Entrée
Traditional lasagna, meat or vegetarian. Chicken satay skewers, vol-au-vent, arancini, Thai beef salad, minestrone, pumpkin soup.
Main
Veal or chicken scaloppine, eye fillet wrapped in prosciutto, chicken Valentino, oven-baked quail, bacon-wrapped chicken with mustard sauce, lamb cutlets, individual lamb roast. A bread roll is served with every meal.
Sides and salads
Scalloped potatoes, roast potato, vegetable medley, green beans, caramelised carrots, Dutch carrots. Tossed, oriental noodle, bean, Greek and Caesar salads, and spinach with roast pumpkin and feta.
Dessert
Tiramisu, sticky date pudding with caramel sauce, lemon tart, individual pavlovas, lemon cheesecake, chocolate mousse, chocolate self-saucing pudding, cassata, fruit salad and ice cream. Complimentary brewed coffee, tea and sweet treats.
Christmas
Roast turkey roll with traditional plum pudding and custard sauce, or Italian cassata.