Gentle Giant in Christchurch City Menu

SOMETHING LIGHT SOMETHING LIGHT
  • Soup of the Day $13.00
    • Served w toasted Supergrain bread
  • Oven Toasted Muesli $14.50
    • Served w seasonal fruits, milk and Greek yoghurt
  • Creamy Oat Porridge $13.00
    • Served w caramelised nuts, dried fruit, milk and cream
EGGS EGGS
  • Eggs your way $10.00
    • Poached or scrambled free range eggs served on toasted bread
  • Eggs your way $5.00
    • Add bacon
  • Eggs Benedict $19.00
    • Poached free-range eggs and lemon hollandaise sauce served w crispy bacon and sauteed spinach on toasted bread
  • Eggs Benedict $21.00
    • Poached free-range eggs and lemon hollandaise sauce served w smoked salmon and sauteed spinach on pesto hash
  • Eggs Benedict $18.00
    • Poached free-range eggs and lemon hollandaise sauce served w roasted mushrooms, tomato, spinach on toasted bread
SWEET AND SAVOURY SWEET AND SAVOURY
  • Baked Beans $16.00
    • Southern style baked beans w beef mince, crispy bacon and poached free range eggs. Served with toasted bread
  • Vanilla and Cinnamon French Toast $18.50
    • Served w caramalised banana, crispy bacon and maple syrup, Drizzled and garnished w maple syrup, toasted almonds and walnuts
  • Zucchini Green Bean Fritters $18.00
    • Topped with kimchi salad. Served w beetroot chutney
  • Spicy Pork Belly & Smashed Avocado $21.00
    • Served w green salad on toasted sourdough bread
  • Sticky Crispy Chicken $19.00
    • Glazed w special-sticky-spicy-sweet sauce. Served w oriental slaw and toasted bread
  • Superfood Salad $18.50
    • Quinoa, chia seeds, brown rice, kale, roasted seasonal veges served w Beef marinated w sweet soy sauce
  • Superfood Salad $18.50
    • Quinoa, chia seeds, brown rice, kale, roasted seasonal veges served w Pan grilled tofu
  • Waffles $15.00
    • Delicious brioche waffles w a crunchy caramalised shell served w warm dark chocolate sauce and vanilla bean ice cream
  • Waffles $16.50
    • Delicious brioche waffles w a crunchy caramalised shell served w fruit salsa, candied nuts, berry compote w Greek yoghurt

Nearby Sample Menus

  • Toasted Bagel $7.50
    • Your choice of a delicious Vic's Bakery raisin or plain bagel, toasted, with: raspberry jam, butter and cream cheese / sliced tomato and cream cheese / sliced tomato and hummus
  • Savoury Scrambled Eggs $16.00
    • Three free range eggs, mixed with diced tomato, fresh herbs and cream, and served on wholegrain toast.
  • Open Sammie $22.00
    • Our well known concoction of toasted Italian bread, layered with hummus, sliced tomato, lettuce, roasted vegetables, grilled chicken tenderloins and bacon. And topped with our 'pink' mayo.
  • Chicken Liver Pãté $11.00 / $15.00
    • Silky smooth pãté with pickles and bread. (for one or two)
  • CCB (Chicken, Cranberry and Brie Filo) $18.00
    • A delicious mix of creamy, herbed chicken and béchamel sauce, rolled with brie and cranberry sauce. With salad.
  • Warm Lamb Salad $25.00
    • Tender sliced marinated backstrap, on a bed of salad and served with carrot hummus, feta cheese and a minted Tzatziki style dressing. Served with bread.
  • Bacon and Eggs $16.00
    • Two poached free range eggs on toast of your choice, grilled tomato and crispy bacon.
  • Steak Sandwich $27.50
    • Marinated ribeye, with rocket, melted smoked cheese, sliced tomato, caramelised onion jam and grilled bread.
  • Vension Portbello N/A
  • Vegetarian N/A
    • Brocolli & Mushroom
  • Steak N/A
  • Mince & Cheese N/A
  • Chicken & Camembert N/A
  • Bacon & Egg N/A
  • Steak & Kidney N/A
  • Back by popular demand N/A
    • Butter Chicken
  • Stir-fry Ginger $12.00
  • Minced Pork Toasts (4 pcs) $10.00
  • Pad Thai
    • Our spicy stir fried noodle dish, with fresh vegetable, egg, sweet and sour sauce, and crushed roasted peanuts. And a choices between egg noodles or rice noodles.
  • Stir-fry Seafood with yellow curry powder $28.00
    • A combination of seafood. Monkfish, prawns, scallops, squid, with celery, mushrooms, onions, mixed together with a hot yellow curry powder and an egg.
  • Seafood Salad $28.00
    • We can make a full seafood salad using monkfish, prawns, scallops and squid. This is a papaya style salad.
  • Curry Puffs (4 pcs) $10.00
  • -Prawns or deep fried Monkfish $26.00
  • -Beef, Chicken, Pork, Crispy Pork, Vegetarian, or Tofu $19.00
  • Chicken Satay $5.00
  • Groper $6.00
  • Corn and Bacon Pattie $2.00
  • Garlic Butter Chips $4.20
  • Kumara Chips (Bog) $4.70
  • Mini Donuts (3) $1.20
  • Corn Nuggets (1/2 dozen) $2.00
  • Onion Rings (1/2 dozen) $3.20
  • Potato Fritters $0.90
  • Sole Fillets $4.90
  • Oysters dozen (pacific) N/A
  • Crab Sticks $1.80
  • Steak & Onion Patties $2.20
  • Tomato $4.10
  • Squid Rings dozen $10.00
  • Mini Spring Rolls $6.00
  • Laab Chicken (Spicy chicken salad) $17.00
    • Mince chicken mixed in lime juice , red onion, ground sticky rice, Thai herbs, topped with mint leaves
  • Beef (Eye Fillet) $23.00
  • Pad Piew Wan (Sweet and Sour Sauce) N/A
    • Thai Sweet and Sour with pineapple, tomato and vegetables
  • Prawns $19.00
  • Gang Garee Gai 9chicken Yellow Curry) N/A
    • A Yellow coconut cream curry combining tender chicken and potato delicately spiced.
  • Tom Yum Talay $15.00
    • Fresh lemon juice wit mixed seafood and smooth chicken stock combined with a galangal ,lemongrass, and Thai herbs
  • Wild Pork (Strip-loin organic) $25.00
  • Pad Drunken Noodle N/A
    • Stiir fried flat rice noodle with fresh basil leaf, Thai herbs and vegetables
  • Chipotle N/A
  • White Chip Macadamia N/A
  • Sweet Onion N/A
  • Pork Riblet N/A
  • Ham, Egg and Cheese N/A
  • Oven Roasted Chicken N/A
  • Chicken & Bacon Ranch Melt N/A
  • Cucumber N/A
  • Combination Entrée $9.00
    • (Prawns, Spring Rolls, Wontons , Squids)
  • Scallops With Spring Onion And Ginger $23.00
  • Lemon Fish Fillets $17.90
  • Fried Noodles / Rice With Chicken $10.00
  • Kung Pao Chicken (Spicy) $13.90
  • Prawn Crackers $5.00
  • Chicken With Curry Sauce $13.90
  • Season Vegetable With Oyster Sauce $5.00
  • KING SALMON & SCALLOP $31.50
    • 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!
  • 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.
  • VANILLA BRULE
    • Yip this is another one of our famous desserts, our vanilla bean Brulee made to perfection.... It comes with homemade vanilla bean ice cream and some kinda biscuit. I would even go as far as saying ladies this is better than sex.
  • GARLIC BREAD $7.20
    • This has no story... except to say it's bloody great!!!!
  • FLATBREAD $12.90
    • Pita bread smothered in sundried tomato, parmesan cheese.The locals favourite.
  • LAMB SHANK $26.50/double$32.50
    • Lots of shanks slowly braised for hours & hours with mushrooms, celery and carrots in a rich merlot sauce. Comes with garlic butter potato mash. Sounds nice if you’re into stews...Good on a chilly night.
  • 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.
  • SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN $9.80/$11.80
  • CHIPS 1 SCOOP $2.50
  • PINEAPPLE, MUSHROOM EGG
  • MEAT LOVERS $9.99
    • salami ham bacon cheese & BBQ sauce
  • HASH BROWNS 4 for $2.80
  • MEXICAN $9.99
    • hot salami, gherkins and chilli
  • CHICKEN FRIED RICE OR PORK BEEF OR SEAFOOD $9.80
  • CHEESE ONION $2.20
  • Bagel $9.00
    • toasted Bagel with butter and spread (marmalade, jam or honey)
  • Eggs On Toast $10.50
    • two eggs on sour dough bread any way you like it
  • Salmon Sandwich $18.50
    • house-cured salmon with seasonal salad, avocado & honey mustard sauce on sour dough bread
  • The Creamy Goat $12.50
    • tomato, olive oil and a mild goat cheese piled on our whole-grain sour dough bread
  • French Toast Bacon & Banana $16.50
    • served with crispy bacon, banana & maple syrup
  • Egg Montreal $18.90
    • two poached eggs with house-cured salmon & house-made hollandaise on sour dough bread
  • French Toast Berry & Yoghurt $16.50
    • dusted in cinnamon sugar with berry compote and yoghurt
  • Corn Fritters Vegetarian $16.50
    • with avocado, baked tomato, sour cream, served with a side salad of your choice
  • Japanese Curry $10
    • Chicken with Japanese curry & fresh vegetable salad on rice
  • Teriyaki Beef $11
    • Beef with teriyaki sauce & fresh vegetable salad on rice
  • Katsu $11
    • Crumbed pork with don-katsu sauce, egg & fresh vegetable salad on rice
  • Vegetarian yaki udon $11
  • Teriyaki Chicken Set $13
    • Teriyaki chicken on rice, tempura set & 2 chicken sushi with salad
  • Teriyaki Eel $15
    • Grilled eel with teriyaki sauce & fresh vegetable salad on rice
  • Udon noodle $10
  • Rice Tray N/A
  • Yum (Chicken, Pork or Beef) $18.00
  • Sweet & Sour Vegetables $16.00
  • Pork Fried Noodles & Vegetables $16.00
  • Curry Puff (4) Vegetarian $8.00
  • Thai Fish Cakes (4) $9.00
  • Vegetables Fried Noodles $15.00
  • Chilli Vegetables $15.00
  • Red or Green Fish Curry $16.00
  • Lemongrass Sauce $17.50
    • Stir fry with lemongrass sauce on a bed of vegetables, lemongrass
  • Roast Duck (Gang Ped Yang) $19.50
    • In a red curry with vegetables, potato, pineapple & grape
  • BBQ Beef Salad $19.50
    • Spicy salad with lots of onions
  • Seafood Red Curry $22.00
    • A mixture of vegetables, prawns, squid, mussels, scallops
  • Massamun Curry $18.50
    • A brown curry with tamarind, potato, pineapple, cinnamon sticks
  • Ginger Sauce (Pad Khing) $17.50
    • Flavours of fresh ginger with a mixture of vegetables. Very nice.
  • Chilli Squid $22.00
    • (Pad Prik Calmar) Stir fried squid in mixture of vegetables & fresh chillis
  • Oyster Sauce (Pad Nummun Hoy) $17.50
    • Stir fry with a mixture of vegetables in oyster sauce
  • Sweet and sour/Fresh Ginger/Chilli Basil/Pad Keemou $11.00
    • Chicken, Pork, Beef, or Vegetarian and tofu
  • Prawns $13.00
  • Garlic & Pepper/Cashew nuts/Peanut Sauce $13.00
    • Chicken, Pork, Beef, or Vegetarian and tofu
  • Thai Fish Cake (5) $8.50
  • Tom Yum N/A
  • Pad Thai/Egg Noodles/Fried Rice $14.00
    • Prawns
  • Thai Money Bags (4) $8.50
  • Chicken Sattay Sticks (4) $9.00
Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant

location

Address

158 Ferry Road, Waltham, Christchurch, Canterbury, 8011, New Zealand

phone

Phone

033669144

email

Email

None

clock

Opened hours

Monday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Thursday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Friday: 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Saturday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM, Sunday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
price range

Price

None

type

Type

None

service level

Service

Table Service

cuisine

Cuisine

Breakfast , Cafe Food , New Zealand , Vegan , Vegetarian

features

Features

Wheelchair accessible ,  Reservations ,  Breakfast ,  Waitstaff ,  Takeout ,  Cash ,  Seating ,  Highchairs Available ,  Child-friendly ,  Outdoor Seating

Location
158 Ferry Road, Waltham, Christchurch, Canterbury, 8011, New Zealand