Nova Cafe in Otago Menu

EARLY EARLY
  • BAGELS $6.5
    • Fix + Fogg peanut butter
  • BAGELS $6.5
    • Provisions ‘many berry’ jam’
  • BAGELS $15
    • smoked salmon, cream cheese, hard-boiled egg, cucumber + capers
  • GINGERBREAD $12
    • Rewarewa honey + soft butter
  • TOASTED GRANOLA $12
    • berry compote + yoghurt
  • HARRAWAY OAT PORRIDGE $11 (DF)
    • toasted pecans, apple + maple syrupchoose almond / coconut / soy milk
  • 2 EGGS + CIABATTA $12 (DF)
    • fried / scrambled / poached
  • EGGS ANY STYLE $19
    • rimu smoked bacon, slow roasted tomato + ciabatta
  • GRILLED HALOUMI $18 (GF)
    • slow roasted tomato, Nova hash + smoked beans
  • NOVA BREAKFAST $24 (DF)
    • poached eggs, bacon, apple + pork sausage, slow roasted tomato, Nova hash, smoked tomato jalapeno jam + ciabatta
  • FRENCH TOAST $17/+bacon $22
    • vanilla bean mascarpone, Provisions pinot noir marinated cherries + maple syrup
  • EGGS FLORENTINE / EGGS BENEDICT / EGGS MONTREAL $16
    • spinach
  • EGGS FLORENTINE / EGGS BENEDICT / EGGS MONTREAL $20
    • bacon
  • EGGS FLORENTINE / EGGS BENEDICT / EGGS MONTREAL $21
    • salmon
  • BREAKFAST BURRITO WRAP $18
    • spinach wrap, smoky beans, sour cream, avocado, rocket, scrambled egg, sweet corn + coriander salsa
  • ADD $5
    • bacon / black pudding / haloumi / hash brown / tomatoes
  • ADD $3
    • hollandaise / gluten free bread
MORNING / DAY FRESHLY BAKED MORNING / DAY FRESHLY BAKED
  • SWEET OR SAVOURY MUFFINS $4.20
    • (ask for flavours)
  • CINNAMON PINWHEELS $5.50
  • SAVOURY PINWHEELS $5.50
DESSERTS DESSERTS
  • CHAI CRÈME BRÛLÉE $14
    • pistachio + rose water shortbread
  • ORANGE PARFAIT SANDWICH $14
    • chocolate crumble, candied mandarin + orange powder
  • SALTED CARAMEL + CHOCOLATE CONE $14
    • vanilla bean crème anglaise + peanut brittle(GF)
  • TIRAMISU $14
    • finished with Allpress coffee bean praline
  • RUM BABA $14
    • vanilla bean ice cream, molasses brandy snap + spiced sugar
ENTREES ENTREES
  • ARANCINI $10
    • roasted pumpkin, pine nut, feta + sage aioli
  • PORK RILLETTE $14
    • slow braised pork shoulder with BBQ plum relish + sesame lavash
  • SOUP OF THE DAY + toasted focaccia $13
  • WOOD + TEA SMOKED SALMON $14
    • steamed gourmet potatoes + salsa verde
  • CURRIED PRAWN BROTH $15
    • panko prawns, julienne vegetables, rice noodles + green curry broth
  • SHARING PLATTER $22
    • arancini, Evansdale cheese, toasted focaccia bread, soup tasters, olive oil, dukkah + hummus
MAINS MAINS
  • PORK BELLY $34
    • celeriac puree, pickled fennel relish, smoked bacon roasted shallots + apple cider jus (GF)
  • DUCK CASSOULET $32
    • confit duck legs, white bean + pork sausage stew, crisp pork skin + smoked paprika oil
  • BEEF FILLET $35.9
    • 250g eye fillet with hand cut fries + sauce béarnaise
  • BATTERED FISH $27
    • marinated slaw, paprika salt shoestring fries + tartare sauce
  • SLOW BRAISED BEEF CHEEKS confit garlic mash potato, roasted baby vegetables + lentil jus (GF) $33
  • MAPLE SALAD rimu smoked bacon, blue cheese, shaved pear, toasted walnuts + maple vinaigrette (GF) $18
  • CAESAR SALAD parmesan$19+chicken $22
    • cos lettuce, rimu smoked bacon, croutons, anchovies, poached egg +
  • CHICKEN BURGER $21
    • marinated chicken breast with bacon, smoked paprika cotija, harissa dressing, aioli, lettuce + shoestring fries
  • PO’BOY $19
    • French baguette, slow braised pork + pickled slaw
  • BEEF BURGER $23
    • 150g beef pattie, smoked cheddar, double crumbed onion, celery remoulade, bourbon BBQ sauce, lettuce + shoestring fries
  • EGGPLANT KASUNDI $22
    • spiced sweet tomato + eggplant, grilled haloumi + coconut ginger rice(GF)
  • WOK VEGETABLES $23
    • steamed jasmine rice + toasted cashew nuts $18 + chicken (GF) (DF)
  • RISOTTO $24
    • arborio rice, wild mushrooms, pine nuts, spinach + parmesan $18 + meat (GF)
  • CRAB LINGUINI $23
    • gremolata crumb, preserved lemon, cherry tomatoes + cured egg yolk
  • TOM YUM CURRY $24
    • spicy/sour curry broth served with prawns, chicken, steamed vegetables + rice noodles
SIDES SIDES
  • CAULIFLOWER GRATIN $10
    • curry sauce, panko bread crumbs + parmesan cheese
  • DOUBLE CRUMBED ONION RINGS $8
    • harissa aioli
  • HAND CUT FRIES $8/+poutine $12
    • twice cooked fries
  • SIDE SALAD $7
    • lettuce, cherry tomatoes + lemon vinaigrette (GF)
  • CROQUETTES $8
    • ham + cheese
  • SHOESTRING FRIES + aioli $6half/$9whole
  • SEASONAL VEGETABLES $10

Nearby Sample Menus

  • Creamy shrimp & fish chowder $14.00
  • Moroccan spiced lamb kebabs $24.00
    • on cous cous with pita bread & mint yoghurt
  • Chicken nuggets & chips $10.00
  • Soup of the day $11.00
    • with fresh warm bread
  • Fresh fish and chips done in an Emersons beer batter $20.00
    • served with fresh fries salad and homemade tartare sauce
  • Omelette $19.00
    • Smoked salmon, caper, spinach & cream cheese. Or bacon, mushroom, spinach & tomato
  • Croissant $8.50
    • toasted with ham, cheese & tomato
  • Free Range Eggs $14.50
    • any style with ciabatta toast and streaky bacon
  • The Fergburger $11.00
    • Prime New Zealand beef, lettuce, tomato, red onion, aioli & tomato relish.
  • Sweet Julie $12.90
    • Grilled chicken tenderloins marinated in a ginger soy sauce dressed with sweet chilli, lettuce, tomato, red onion & aioli.
  • The Bulls Eye $18.50
    • Primo New Zealand Ribeye steak (200g). Grilled medium, topped with rings of white onion, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato, aioli & tomato relish.
  • Sweet Bambi $12.50
    • Wild Fiordland Deer with a Thai plum chutney, lettuce, tomato, red onion & aioli.
  • Double Ferg w/cheese $15.00
    • Cheddar
  • Large aioli $2.00
  • Mr Big Stuff $16.00
    • 1/2 lb of prime New Zealand beef topped with melted cheddar cheese, American streaky bacon & bbq sauce, lettuce, tomato, red onion & aioli
  • Homemade onion rings with aioli sauce $5.50
  • -Warm roast beetroot and feta salad with balsamic dressing $17
  • Fried chicken with wasabi mayo and Japanese barbecue glaze $9.50
  • Served from 5pm
  • Served until 5pm
  • Rump steak with chips, salad, Café de Paris butter and demi-glace $19.90
  • Meatballs with warm cherry tomato compote topped with 3 cheese sauce $9.50
  • Kumara hash with smoked salmon, baby spinach, poached eggs and hollandaise $18.50
  • Salads $3.50
    • Add fries to your meal for only
  • Pie (GF-) $15.00
    • Homemade pie of the day served with golden fries and a fresh garden salad. Beer Match: Ask Server
  • Golden fries $8.00/ $9.00
    • With tomato ketchup/ With cheese
  • Egg $2.00
  • Wedges $4.00
  • Potato Gratin $4.50
  • Black Cherry Chicken $28.00
    • Tender Chicken pocketed with soft cheese, wrapped in smoked bacon & oven roasted. Laid on kumara mash with black cherry sauce and a fresh garden salad. Beer match: Speight's Gold Medal Ale >>
  • James Speight’s Sausage & Mash $17.00
    • Locally made sausages, served on potato mash & topped with caramelised onion, gravy & with Alehouse bread. Beer match: Speight's Porter
  • Plains Pasta $19.00
    • Chef’s pasta selection of the day. Daily vegetarian option available. Beer Match: Ask server
  • Gomez Ribeye steak $24.00
    • your choice of creamy mushroom sauce or garlic herb butter served with garden salad and fries G.F
  • Foster Benedict $17.00
    • poached eggs and baby spinach on an English split muffin, with hollandaise sauce bacon ( hot smoked salmon 18.50)G.F option available
  • Smoked Salmon and Herb Fil Tart $20.00
    • served with garden salad
  • Grandmas Ribs $19.00
    • beef short ribs marinated in a bourbon & BBQ sauce, served with fries and slaw
  • Garlic Bread $6.00
    • toasted housemade ciabatta with garlic herb butter
  • Pugsley stack $15.00
    • with grilled banana and bacon, drizzled with maple syrup
  • Gourmet Ham Salad Sandwich $7.50
    • lettuce, salad mix, and aioli on focaccia bread
  • Morticia Mushroom and Haloumi stack $17.00
    • with curried nuts and salad greens GF
  • Housemade Gnocchi with Tomato,Chilli ,Basil,Olive & Caper Sauce with Ricotta and Parmesan Cheese $26
  • Pizza Bread with Caramelised Onion & Blue Cheese $12
  • VKNOW Venison,Parmesan & Caramelised Onion Bruschetta $12
  • Platter of Smoked Meats Pestos Olives & Breads $24
  • Stewart Island Blue Cod in a Thai Green Curry with Broccoli on Basmati Rice $33
  • Kumara, pumpkin, olives , feta, courgette, tomato, mushrooms $19 / $27 / $27
    • Small / Large / Thin Lizzie
  • Pepperoni, mushroom, tomato, feta, kalamata olives, & basil $19 / $27 / $27
    • Small / Large / Thin Lizzie
  • Strawberry & Raspberry Sorbet with Meringues $10
  • Plaza big breakfast $18.50
    • Free range havoc bacon. havoc sausage, free range eggs (poached, scrambled or fried), homemade hash brown, grilled tomato, roasted field mushrooms and toasted Vogel's
  • Tomato, avocado and Vogel's brealfast $12.50
    • Tomato, avocado, rocket, lemon and extra virgin olive oil served with Vogel's toast
  • Bacon and egg breakfast $15.00
    • Free range havoc bacon, free range eggs (poached, scrambled or fried) and toasted Vogel's
  • Muesli and yogurt $7.50
    • Toasted muesli, natural yogurt, and fruit compote Fruit compote options:. boysenberry, blackberry and apple/peach, mango and passion fruit rhubarb and red berry
  • Bagel Breakfast served with either fruit jam and cream cheese, or cold smoked salmon and cream cheese
    • warmed baqe
  • Pancake breakfast $5.00
    • Pancake and Maple Syrup
  • Toast Breakfast $3.00
    • Marmite toast soldier
  • Pancakes $12.50
    • Buttermilk pancake stack served with fruit compote, maple syrup, cream or yogurt Fruit compote Options: • boysenberry, blackberry, and apple • peach. mango and passion fruit • rhubarb and red berry
  • Full breaky $19.00
    • Sausage, bacon, eggs, homemade beans, fried potatoes, mushrooms spinach
  • Chicken salad $17.00
    • Bacon, cos lettuce, parmesan, poached eggs, croutons and aioli
  • Salmon $19.00
    • With potato and fennel rosti and salad
  • Fries $7.50
    • Served with aioli and tomato sauce
  • Falafel cakes $16.00
    • With salad sundried tomatoes, yoghurt tzatziki, olives and feta
  • Eggs your style $10.50
    • (poached, scrambled, fried) with white, brown or gluten free bread
  • Beanie bene $17.50
    • Bacon or salmon or mushroom and spinach with potato cake, poached eggs and lemon hollandaise
  • Porridge $10.50
    • Cream and brown sugar or yoghurt compote and honey
  • Manburger $22.90
    • Our biggest burger ever! Beef pattie, venison pattie, crumbed chicken breast, lamb pattie, streaky bacon, cheese, relish & aioli.
  • Velvet Lady $13.90
    • Everybody wants her but she keeps it classy just like your mum back in the day - Grilled Chicken Breast, Salad, Bacon, Avocado and Cheese with Aioli and Velvet Relish.
  • Soft Drinks $4.5
  • Velvet Burger $10.90
    • It has Venison, Salad, Grilled Pineapple, with Chilli Mayonnaise and Velvet Relish. You definitely want to try this one with a bit of extra bacon.
  • Mini Velvet Lady $10.90
    • 1/2 size Grilled Chicken Breast, Salad, Bacon, Avocado, Aioli & Velvet Relish.
  • Hottie $9.90
    • This is our hot one! It has a Beef Pattie, Salad, Grilled Mango with Chilli Mayonnaise, Velvet Relish and as much chilli Sauce as your tastebuds can handle.
  • Aioli, Chilli Mayo, Sweet Chilli, Sour Cream $1
  • Pineapple, Mango or Beetroot $1
  • Bowl of Chips $4.50
  • Mixed Berry Parfait A mixture of seasonal berries layered with vanilla ice cream & strawberry sauce topped with whipped cream (Gluten free) $12.00
  • Cheese Board Evensdale Cheese, crackers and homemade bread 2 people $15.50 / 4 people $26.50
  • Vegetable Stack with pine nuts & feta Oven baked field mushrooms stacked with fire roasted capsicum, layered with pine nuts & feta, then finished with a spinach puree $14.00
  • Seafood Chowder Also served with in house bread $12.50
  • Gourmet Toasted Sandwiches Served with a gourmet potato & radish salad, Cream cheese, bacon, basil pesto & tomato, Brie, chicken & cranberry jelly, Salami, mushroom, sundried tomato & mozzarella $12.50 each
  • Fresh New Zealand Salmon Stewart Island salmon resting on a lentil cake & blanketed with a coriander & garlic hollandaise $31.00
  • Side of Salad $4.50
  • Kebab Burger
    • Large fresh bun stuffed with lamb or/and chicken, mix of salads and sauces
  • Adana $4.90
  • Falafel $13.50
  • Mix $14.50
  • Mix $13.50
  • Lamb/Chilly Lamb $13.90
  • Chicken (Roll/ Plate) $12.90/$15.40
  • Mix Grill (Plate) $16.90
  • Seafood Bowl of Mussels, King Prawns & Blue Cod in a Creamy Chowder Sauce with Vknow Toasted Garlic Bread $36.00
  • Steamed Green Vegetables $10.00
  • Gibbston Brie & Kikorangi Blue Cheese with Oatcakes & Fruit Pastes $20.00
  • Smoked salmon, cream cheese, courgette, capers, with lemon aioli
  • Pizza Bread with Caramelised Onion & Blue Cheese $12.00
  • Crispy Duck Confit on a Puy Lentil Salad with an Asian Dressing $34.00
  • Yukkie $3.00
  • Strawberry & Raspberry Sorbet with Meringues $10.00
  • House green salad $12.00
  • NZ SCAMPI 25
    • Spicy Deep Fried
  • Peking duck pancakes-Whole(16pancakes) $88.00
  • Fiordland crayfish 128/500g
    • Deep fried with spicy salt
  • Mongolian lamb $30.00
    • Cardrona lamb rump "Jiangbao" style with leeks, shallot and hoisin sauce
  • Classic black bean beef $36.00
    • Angus eye fillet cubes work fried with capsicum, onion in homemade black bean paste
  • Fiordland crayfish 128/500g
    • Sashimi and congee
  • Crispy roast pork belly $20.00
  • Pork Belly Burger $19.00
    • Slow-roasted New Zealand pork belly in hoisin/ginger/5-spice sauce, with tart apple, coleslaw and shoestring fries
  • Gluten Free Base, extra $3.50
  • Meat Platter $22.00
    • Selection of cured meats, chicken liver paté with beetroot chutney, pickles, breads and crackers
  • Hawaiian n/a
    • Ham off the bone, cheese & pineapple
  • Salad n/a
    • Mesclun leaves, fire-roasted red peppers, spring onions, carrots and red cabbage dressed with vingerette
  • Blue Cod $28.50
    • A Southern delicacy – cooked in a light beer batter served with shoestring fries, our own tartare sauce & garden salad
  • Tap Burger $19.00
    • House made prime beef, smoked cheese, red onion, tomato, Fork and Tap BBQ sauce, aioli and shoestring fries
  • Rustic Potato Fries $8.00
    • With house made spicy tomato relish and aioli (V)(GF*)
  • gluten dree and vegetarian pizzas available
  • Garlic bread $6.50
    • A multi pull apart loaf smothered in garlic herb butter, perfect to share
  • Traditional L $21.5 / S $16.5
    • With tomato sauce, basil and cheese
  • Chicken & brie L $21.5 / S $16.5
    • With cheese and plum sauce
  • Blat $14.00
    • Bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado, and mayo w salad
  • Prawn $19.50
    • 4 prawn skewers w your choice of garlic or sweet chilli served on a fresh salad
  • Chicken & bacon L $21.5 / S $16.5
    • With capsicum, cheese and apricot sauce
  • Salad bowl $6.00
    • A bowl of fresh salas w a light dressing
Nova Cafe

Nova Cafe

location

Address

29 The Octagon, Dunedin, Dunedin, Otago, 9058, New Zealand

phone

Phone

034790808

clock

Opened hours

Monday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Thursday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Friday: 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Saturday: 8:30 AM – 10:00 PM, Sunday: 8:30 AM – 10:00 PM
price range

Price

$20 - $30

type

Type

None

service level

Service

Table Service

cuisine

Cuisine

Cafe Food , European , Gluten Free , New Zealand , Vegan , Vegetarian

features

Features

Dine in ,  EFTPOS ,  Mastercard ,  Takeaway ,  Visa ,  Wheelchair accessible ,  Business meetings ,  Reservations ,  After-hours ,  Breakfast ,  Waitstaff ,  Cash ,  Groups ,  Bankcard ,  Lunch ,  Group Meal ,  Seating ,  Highchairs Available ,  Free Wifi ,  Cards accepted ,  Desserts and Bakes ,  Local cuisine ,  Disabled Friendly ,  Special Occasion Dining ,  Serves Alcohol ,  Dinner ,  Child-friendly ,  Outdoor Seating ,  Full Bar

Location
29 The Octagon, Dunedin, Dunedin, Otago, 9058, New Zealand