Oven baked king salmon fillet, with gnocchi and creamy vermouth & tarragon sauce. Finished with grilled scallops plus a watercress & apple salad. Now don't feel too guilty for looking at the dessert menu, coz this is rather healthy!
FLATBREAD $12.90
Pita bread smothered in sundried tomato, parmesan cheese.The locals favourite.
T-BONE $36.50
Yup, the good old T-bone comes with tomatoes, buttered mushrooms, eggs, onion rings and a shit load of chips for you Former folk. or for the Farmer folk wife, we have a classier version. It comes with roasted baby potatoes, balsamic roasted tomatoes a cracked pepper and mushroom sauce and a baby salad too. Now don’t be thinking you can mix n match cause the chefs won’t do it!!!!
Moroccan LAMB SHOULDER $27.50
Tender pieces of a green salad with whole grain puffed wheat, feta cheese, roasted beetroot with a minted yoghurt and pomegranate dressing.
STUFFED CHICKEN $31.80
The plumpest chicken breast stuffed with walnuts, baby spinach and brie cheese wrapped up in streaky bacon, oven roasted and plonked upon potato & herb puffs. Topped with a tomato jam and sweet kumara crisps
PANNA COTTA
we reckon that we make it better here at the Three Cows than the Italians do. Comes with seasonal poached fruits and shortbread crumbs, this is food for the soul.
WARM APPLE WALNUT CAKE
I reckon this is better than grandma used to make, but then what do I know I’m just the sucker that has to type this. A warm rich style cake with apple syrup and homemade vanilla ice cream.
APPLE & BERRY CRUMBLE
Good ale fashion fruit cooked with a hint of spice and all the love in the world. Topped with a butter shortbread crumble and oven-baked to warm and toastie. Comes with yep you got it, homemade vanilla ice cream.
Served with port wine jelly, gherkins and chargrilled ciabatta.
Pulled pork sandwich $22.50
Slow cooked Apple Tree Farm open range pork belly on toasted ciabatta with lemon aioli, cos lettuce, cucumber, apple chutney and fries.
Picante $22.50
Wood-fired roasted chicken, caramelised onion, spinach, mushrooms and pine nuts. Drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and shaved parmesan.
Cannelloni (v) $21.50
Spinach, mushroom and ricotta filled cannelloni, topped with a fresh tomato and basil sauce.
Mediterranean salad (v) $19.50
With root vegetable crisps, balsamic roasted cherry tomatoes, artichokes, eggplant, feta cheese, rosemary roasted pecans, red peppers and olives. Tossed with mixed greens. With chargrilled Canterbury lamb or chicken add 5.00
Olive marinate (v) $10.00
Selection of olives marinated with fennel, orange, rosemary and garlic. Served gently warmed
Lamb Piadina $21.50
Italian flatbread topped with sundried tomato pesto, feta, herb marinated lamb, rocket, minted yoghurt dressing. Served with hand cut kumara fries.
Linguine marinara $21.50
A selection of premium local seafood tossed with coriander and linguine pasta, in a lemon infused extra virgin olive oil or tomato and herb Napoletana sauce.
Carefully selected salmon raised in pristine alpine waters, citrus baked and served on polenta chips accompanied by pea puree and parsnip puree. Finished with lemon pepper hollandaise sauce
Pan fried calamari with chorizo $8.00
Polenta Chips with Chilli Sauce $7.00
Truffled Scrambled Eggs $14.50
Scrambled eggs, seasoned with chive and truffle salt, served with grilled tomato and toasted Ciabatta
Tea or Coffee and Toast $10.00
Served with a selection of spreads
Oven warmed olives with mint $8.00
Canterbury Merino Lamb Shoulder $28 For 1 / $48 For 2
Raised on the Canterbury plains; Lamb braised in tomato, lemon and Moroccan spices on pumpkin, raisin and almond cous cous. Finished with house made yoghurt and our own garden mint
Lemon and Thyme Roasted Chicken Legs $28.00
Served with fondant potatoes, sage, onion and apricot stuffing and a slow roasted tomato. Finished with jus and red currant sauce