Pre-Dinner and Cocktail Menus

Cold Canape Selection

Lamb pastrami on a savoury scone with a mint and pinenut pesto

Selection of sushi with soy, pickled ginger and wasabi

Salmon tartare cone with lemon cherve whip & cucumber pearls

Orange dressed duck & vegetable wraps

Spiced crab, apple & toasted sesame salad

Ika Mata - Island style marinated fish with coconut cream dressing

Vietnamese vegetarian rice paper rolls with coriander chilli dipping sauce

Chicken caesar salad on parmesan croute

Mini Yorkshire puddings with roast beef and onion jam

Prawn with avocado chive salad with poached egg mayonnaise

Shrimp shot-tail : shrimp salad served in a shot glass

Greek salad in a glass dressed with local extra virgin olive oil 

Hot Canape Selection

Herb prawn spring roll with wasabi aoili

Spiced sun-dried tomato polenta cubes with parmesan fondue

5 spiced duck tartlets with apple chutney

Fried shrimp and ginger wontons with nahm jim

Mozzarella & caramelised shallot tart with tomato jam

Puff pastry, stilton, pistachio and pear turnovers

Porcini and parmesan risotto balls with saffron aioli

Lamb koftas with mango chutney

Spiced tempura soft shell crab with chilli lime coriander dipping sauce

Mini beef burgers with wholegrain mustard mayonnaise

Choice of 5 dishes 17.00 per person
Each extra item 3.50 per person

 

Drink Accompaniments and Sweet Canape Selection
Available on Request

Gourmet Cheeseboard

Karikass Vintage Gouda – Loburn, North Canterbury

Whitestone Windsor Blue – Oamaru, North Otago

Evansdale Brie - Waikouaiti, Otago

Brescia Taleggio (washed rind) – Italy

Served with a selection of water crackers & bread

140.00 per platter (approximately 10 people)

Antipasto Platter

Thyme roasted portabello mushrooms

Selection of cured and smoked European cold cuts

Selection of condiments - sun dried tomatoes, olives, caper berries etc

Char-grilled polenta and seasonal vegetables

Manuka smoked chicken

Cold smoked Akaroa salmon

European breads with dips

100.00 per platter (approximately 10 people)

Seafood Platter

Oysters with cucumber lemon dressing

Shrimp shot-tails

Selection of marinated & smoked mussels

Hot smoked salmon with caper, red onion & chive

Tuna tataki

140.00 per platter (approximately 10 people)

Sweet Selection

French pastry selection

Rhubarb vanilla brûlée

Fruit salad & Grand-Marnier shots 

80.00 per platter (approximately 10 people)

Cocktail Packages

Cocktail packages are designed for those wishing to have drinks and nibbles either before a dinner or at the conclusion of a conference
(Minimum number of 15 guests)

One Hour Package

New Zealand beers, sparkling wine, house wines, fruit juice, soft drinks & mineral water

Two hot & two cold canapes
(Chefs selection)

29.00 per person

Two Hour Package

New Zealand beers, sparkling wine, house wines, fruit juice, soft drinks & mineral water

Three hot & three cold canapes
(Chefs selection)

45.00 per person