CHEFS NOTES

Café Style Lunch Menu

“The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch”

 

Soup of the day

 

Kindly ask your waiter for the soup of the day.

 

Warm Panini

 

Served with a rocket & tomato salad. French fries optional.

 

• Grilled chicken with Cape mustard mayonnaise
• Smoked salmon, rocket and cottage cheese
• Tomato, mozzarella and baby spinach

 

Choose your favorite filling.

 

Vegetarian Options

 

• Garden salad with balsamic drizzle and crumbled feta

• Penne pasta with sun-dried tomato pesto, crème fraiche and fresh herbs

• Vegetable spring rolls, potato wedges & plum sauce

 

 

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside”

 

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”

 

Café Options

 

Choose your favorite item

 

 

• Tortilla wrap with crumbed chicken strips, rocket, Peppadew mayonnaise and French fries
• Oven baked butternut with roasted pepper & bean ragout and wilted baby spinach
• Green chicken curry with coconut milk, crispy vegetables and fragrant basmati rice
• Tempura fried fish with salsa and French fries
• African beef burger with crispy bacon, mozzarella cheese, pickled onions and potato wedges

Cheese and Cold Meat Platter

 

A platter with local South African cheeses, ham, salami, preserves, fresh fruit and crackers

 

Desserts

 

• RiverBend ‘chocolate chocolate’ brownie with Amarula mousse and ice cream
• Warm date pudding and orange blossom crème anglaise

 

 

 

Dinner Menu

 

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”

 

Soup

 

Kindly ask your waiter for the soup of the day

 

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

 

Starters

 

Slow roasted honey soy duck and minted orange salad with spring onion crepes

Or

Tossed rocket salad with Caesar dressing and shaved Parmesan cheese

Or

Crumbed haloumi cheese with mixed berry compote, pesto Panini, rocket and candied walnuts

Or

Springbok Carpaccio & samp sushi with a shaved cucumber sesame salad

Or

Prawn & coriander springroll with plum dipping sauce

 

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices:  take it or leave it.”

 

 

Main Courses

 

Fish

5 Spice baked line fish, vegetable fried rice noodles and a coconut tom yum sauce

Or

Tempura fried fish with cumin couscous and coriander salsa

 

Meat

Harissa flavoured Venison pie, Amasi pastry and dried fruit chutney

Or

Chunky biltong & dukkah crusted beef sirloin, fondant potatoes and a brandy & shiitake reduction

Or

Brown rice, chorizo & Camembert stuffed pork belly with a leek fondue and marinated apricots

 

All meat course dishes served with oven roasted root vegetables

 

Vegetarian Options

Vegetable mille feuille with tomato bredie, red onion marmalade and pecorino shavings

Or

Tagliatelle with rocket pesto, Parmesan cheese and sun-dried tomatoes

 

Desserts

Rooibos milk tart, Koeksisters & candied orange peel

Or

Warm chocolate pudding and ice cream

Or

Stem ginger cheesecake with Amarula ice cream

 

“There are four basic food groups:  milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.”