The Arborist in Wellington Menu

DAY & NIGHT MENU DAY & NIGHT MENU
  • Market fish POA
  • Ceviche $13
    • lime, coconut, coriander, house made focaccia
  • Seared beef $14
    • rosemary, pine needle ash, candied beetroot, handpicked nasturtium
  • Lamb neck $14
    • moroccan spices, tzatziki, jus, wood sorrel flower
  • Wild venison backstrap $17
    • garlic, thyme, spiced kumara foam, kumara crisps
  • Crispy pork belly $15
    • celeriac purée, japanese honey suckle
  • Crispy tofu $10
    • sticky ginger soy glaze
  • Jerk chicken $13
    • jamaican marinated boneless thigh
  • Salt & pepper squid $12
    • wasabi kewpie & coconut
GREENS GREENS
  • New Season Asparagus POA
  • Superslaw $8
    • kale, carrot, red onion, corn, nuts, cabbage, fix n fog peanut butter, nuts, seeds.
  • Roasted root vege $8
    • love honey, thyme, dandelion leaves
  • Ancient grain salad $9
    • quinoa, buckwheat, amaranth, pomegranate, nuts, mint
  • Grilled broccolini $8
    • toasted almonds, wild turnip, lemon, basil
  • Watermelon $9
    • feta, strawberry, mint, onion, nuts, seeds
  • Stuffed mushrooms $11
    • confit portabella, chickpea, broccoli, zucchini, parmesan
  • all salads can be made vegan N/A
TUMMY FILLERS TUMMY FILLERS
  • Grilled flat bread $7
    • poppy seed, bull kelp & kawakawa powder, hummus
  • Foraged gnocchi- $9
    • potato, onion weed, lemon wood, sundried tomato
  • Polenta chips $9
    • rosemary, thyme, garlic, shallots, tomato relish
  • Bone marrow $8
    • pomegranate, parsley, onion salad, focaccia
  • Parmesan frieskewpie mayo $8
  • Fried potato & gravy $7
BURGERS BURGERS
  • Lumberjack burger $14
    • Double beef, cheese, house pickles, special sauce
  • Hot bird burger $14
    • Fried chicken, jalapenos, cheese, hot sauce, milk bun
  • Tree lover $14
    • chickpea, broccoli, zucchini patty, relish, aioli, milk bun
  • Chefs burger POA
    • changes weekly
  • Side of parmesan fries small $4
  • All burgers can be served on lettuce bun N/A
BAR BITES BAR BITES
  • Parmesan fries $8
    • with kewpie mayo
  • Crispy chilli chicken $7
    • steamed bun with pickled veges
  • Southern fried chicken (or Korean chicken) with hot sauce and blue cheese dip or Smokey maple $15
  • Tamari and sweet chilli Nuts and seeds $6
  • Salt and pepper squid $ $12
    • wasabi kewpie & coconut
  • Southern fried halloumi chips $11
  • Popcorn cauliflower $8
    • with garlic yoghurt
  • Crispy Tofu $10
    • sticky ginger soy glaze
  • House made onion rings $7.5
  • Flat bread $7
    • with garlic herb butter
  • Bone Marrow $12
  • Polenta chips $9
  • Vege burger balls $10
  • Prawns $15
    • cream, garlic, coriander, chilli served with grilled sourdough
BREAKFAST BREAKFAST
  • Fully Loaded BLOODY MARY $20
    • With Streaky bacon, slider, cheese, fried gherkin
  • Toast & Spreads $7
    • grainy or sourdough with your choice spreads, fix & fogg peanut butter or house preserves
  • Turkish Eggs $14
    • soft poached, savoury Greek yoghurt, chilli nut butter, toasted coriander seeds and grainy toast
  • Scrambled Eggs 2.0 $12
    • wood sorrel, chives, basil oil, grainy toast
  • Poached Eggs $10
    • served on foccacia
  • Add new season asparagus and hollandaise $5
  • Fruit Salad $10
    • honey, yoghurt, freeze dried berries, nuts & seeds
  • Muesli Bowl $12
    • toasted muesli, honey, yoghurt, berry compote, freeze dried berries, nuts, seeds
  • House Made Crumpets $16
    • lemon curd, strawberries, mascarpone, freeze dried berries
  • Lumberjack Breakfast $22
    • eggs, bacon, chorizo, beans, slow roasted tomato, kumara hash, sourdough
  • Vege Lover $22
    • eggs, stuffed mushroom, halloumi, beans, slow roasted tomato, kumara hash, avocado, grainy bread
  • Lamb & Kumara Hash $18
    • fried egg, edamame beans, spinach, jus
  • Mushroom Ragout $18
    • exotic wild mushrooms, panko crumbed poached egg, chives, grainy bread
  • Smashed Avo $15
    • avocado, spring onion, coriander, blistered cherry tomatoes, goats feta, grainy bread
  • Scrambled Tofu $14
    • orange, sesame, wilted nasturtium leaf, coriander, avocado grainy bread
ADD ON ADD ON
  • Slow roasted tomato $4
  • Guacamole $4
  • Chorizo $4
  • Mushroom Ragout $5
  • Garden salad $4
  • Bacon $5
  • Hash brown $4
  • Prosciutto $4
  • Burger + Parmesan fries +Monteiths pale ale $25
BURGERS BURGERS
  • Lumberjack burger $14
    • Double beef, cheese, house pickles, special sauce
  • Hot bird burger $14
    • Fried chicken, jalapenos, cheese, hot sauce, milk bun
  • Tree lover $14
    • chickpea, broccoli, zucchini patty, relish, aioli, milk bun
  • Chefs burger POA
    • changes weekly
  • Side of parmesan fries $4
  • All burgers can be served on lettuce bun N/A

Nearby Sample Menus

  • Ginger chicken $12.90
    • Chicken, beef, or pork
  • Vegetables spring roll (V) $6.50
    • 5 pcs
  • Crispy or BBq pork on rice $14.50
  • Chicken chilli paste $12.90
    • Chicken, beef, or pork
  • Deep fried chicken with mixed vegetables $14.50
  • Phad thai noodle $13.50
    • Chicken, beef, or pork
  • Red curry $12.90
    • Chicken beef or pork
  • Tom yum soup with rice / noodles $12.90
    • Chicken beef or pork
  • Meat Patties (Homemade) $3.00
  • Combo Dinner $16.50
    • Fresh fish fillet, 6 squid rings, 1 crab stick and chips
  • Tomato, Yogurt, BBQ, Chilli, Garlic, Mayo, Satay
  • Pork small $7.50 large $9
  • Breakfast Muffin $5.50
    • English Breakfast Muffin with egg, bacon and cheese
  • Fresh Fish Battered $3.20
  • All Day Big Breakfast $14.50
    • Eggs, hash browns, mushrooms, bacon, sausage, tomato and toast
  • Fish $5.00
  • Siciliana $13
    • Bacon & mozzarella cheese. Simple but super tasty
  • Insalata Mista $9
    • Green leaves, tomato, cucumber, olives with toscana dressing
  • Lasagne Beef $17
    • Made in traditional Italian way
  • Risotto Vegetarian $17
    • Broccoli, carrot, spinach, mushrooms, onion, garlic & napolitana sauce
  • Napolitana $18
    • Ham, salami, Italian sausage, bacon, fresh tomato
  • With five-star taste !
  • Fries $5
  • add Anchovies $5
  • Mini Pizza $10.00
    • Choose your favourite from the pizza menu
  • Corn Fritters w Halloumi Cheese $12.00
    • Fritter stack with grilled haloumi, fresh chutney and salad greens
  • Beer Battered Onion Rings $4.00
  • Chicken Nuggets & Chips $10.00
    • Served with salad and tomato sauce
  • Pasta of the Day $17.00
    • See our blackboards for this weeks special
  • Burgers $19.00
    • Choice of either our classic beef and bacon burger with all the trimmings or our chicken and mango salsa burger, served with fries
  • Mexican $21.00
    • Spicy beef, jalapeno peppers, red onion, capsicum and spicy corn chips finished with sour cream
  • Vegetarian $18.00
    • Capsicum, mushroom, onion, olives, tomato, feta and baby spinach
  • $9.20 Burger Meal
    • Fish Chips Cheese Burger
  • Vegetable Ho Fun $11.00
  • Lemon Fish $12.50
  • Peanuts $2.50
  • Vegetable Fried Rice $9.50
  • Fish Burger $5.00
  • Thai Red/Green Steak Curry $11.50
  • Vegetables & Cashew Nuts $11.80
  • ●Beef
  • -Combination meat or seafood $15.00
  • -Prawn and Seasonal Vegetables / Fish Balls and Seasonal Vegetables / Salted Fish with Eggplant $18.00
  • -Beef or Chicken $13.00
  • -Whole $42.00
  • H=Half / W=Whole
  • -Combination meat or seafood $16.00
  • -Yang Zhou Fried Rice $15.00
    • BBQ pork & shrimp
  • Curry Roll $2.80
  • ‘Depends on availability
  • Grilled Fish $ 4.80
  • Vega Burger $6.10
  • Mussels $ 1.20
  • With Chips & Salad add $ 4.90
  • Bluff Oysters 1/2 Doz $ 15.00
  • Hut Dog $2.80
  • Eggs Florentine $16.00
    • Poached eggs, spinach, salmon & hollandaise on toast
  • Mediterranean Shakshuka $16.00
    • Poached eggs in our homemade tomato salsa- served with tahini and homemade pitta bread
  • Chicken salad $16.00
  • Any extra (avocado, bacon, etc.) $3.50
  • Eggs on Toast $9.00
    • Your choice of fried, poached or scrambled eggs on toast
  • Haloumi Salad $16.00
  • B.L.A.T sandwich $16.00
    • Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado & Tomato
  • Eggs Benedict $16.00
    • Poached eggs, bacon & hollandaise on toast
  • House-churned ice cream & sorbet $16.00
  • Roasted tamarillo w/ rhubarb, lemon curd ice cream, pistachio zested meringue, vanilla creme fraich (Recommended match: Paulownia nobie sauvignon blanc) $13.50
  • Eggs benedict, florentine or montreal $24.00
    • two soft poached eggs on an english muffin with hollandaise sauce
  • Boullabaisse w/ groper, green lipped mussels, crayfish, rouile $20.00
  • Marie's modern trifle: lemon mousse, blueberry, strawberry, strawberry jelly, ginger wine jelly, brandy snap $18.00
  • Warm house-made roti w/ capsicum-hazelnut dip & baba ghanoush $6.00
  • 2 courses/ 3 courses/ 4 courses $50.00/ $70.00/ $80.00
  • Hash browns $6.00
  • Beef carpaccio with roasted garlic and horseradish cream and chargilled lemon oil
  • Skagen salmon, prawn and pinenut pithivier served with a rocket, horseradish and vodka sauce and potato salad $28.00
  • Louisiana-style soft-shell crab served on creole rice with a sour cream and roasted red pepper sauce $28.00
  • Italian-style lentils with slow roast tomatoes, marinated red onion, blue cheese and a balsamic dressing $24.00
  • (These are designed to be a lunchtime-sized entree)
  • Red wine and brandy portabello mushrooms with burnt spring onion dip and toasted ciabatta
  • Please see our blackboard.
  • Za’atar lamb backstrap served on a cracked wheat, sumac and pomegranate salad with a mint and yogurt sauce and olive tapenade $29.00
  • Parmesan gnocchi N/A
    • with spring onion, zucchini, broad bean and cow ricotta
  • Mixed leaf salad $9
  • Market Cheese N/A
    • with sultana sourdough, rye cracker and Braeburn apple salad
  • Piccolo fritto N/A
    • with squid, monkfish and green lip mussels with spiced yoghurt and rocket
  • Confit potatoes $9
  • Josper braised day boat fish N/A
    • with local crab, sea vegetables and its own sauce
  • Fish & shellfish N/A
    • Josper braised catalan style with saffron broth and romescada
  • Asparagus $10
  • Annam Combo $32.00
    • Choose any four different starters from above
  • Bo Kho - Braised Beef (GF) or Ca Ri Ga - Chicken Curry (GF)
  • Dumpling Chay - Veggie Dumpling (V) $11.00
    • Pan grilled dumplings with cabbage, fungus, shitake mushroom, carrots, coriander and spring onion served with cucumber chili soy dipping sauce
  • Ca Hoi Kho Rieng - Caramelised Salmon (GF) $27.00
    • Caramelised braised salmon with galanga served with steamed rice
  • Goi Cuon Chay $10.00
    • Vegetarian with tofu (GF on request) (V)
  • Cha Gio - Crispy Spring Rolls $12.00
    • Crispy ground pork and glass noodle spring rolls served with tangy dipping sauce
  • Goi Ca - Chicken Salad $18.00
    • Vietnamese chicken and fresh herbs salad with cashew nuts
  • Ca Ri Ga - Chicken Curry (GF) $25.00
    • Coconut and lemongrass chicken curry, slow cooked in aromatic spices. Served with rice & French bread.
  • Breakfast #1 n/a
    • French Toast
  • Breakfast #3 n/a
    • Egg Benedict
  • Breakfast #2 n/a
    • Big Breakfast
  • Breakfast #5 n/a
    • Toasted Bagel
  • Breakfast #4 n/a
    • Egg Omelette
  • Gale's gourmet burgers $7.50 / $9.00
  • Fish & chips $9.00
  • ●Assorted paninis & sandwiches
    • made to order
  • Chicken & chips $10.00
    • 2 pieces
  • Bacon & eggs $11.00
  • Wedges with sour cream & salsa $7.00
  • Hot B.L.T $6.50
  • Bacon & Vegetable $7.00
    • Pumpkin, kumera & ginger
  • Fish Cake $2.20
  • Sweet and sour chicken $12.00
  • Pork dim sim (6) $6.00
  • Potato fritter $0.80
  • Battered fish $2.50
  • Pork dumpling (6) $6.00
  • Combination chop suey $12.00
  • Pork fried rice $11.50
The Arborist

The Arborist

location

Address

166 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand

phone

Phone

049316161

clock

Opened hours

Monday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 AM, Tuesday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 AM, Wednesday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 AM, Thursday: 7:00 AM – 12:00 AM, Friday: 7:00 AM – 3:00 AM, Saturday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 AM, Sunday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
price range

Price

$30 - $50

type

Type

None

service level

Service

Table Service

cuisine

Cuisine

Bar , Breakfast , Diner , European , Gluten Free , Kiwi , New Zealand , Pub Food , Vegan , Vegetarian

features

Features

Mastercard ,  Visa ,  Reservations ,  Breakfast ,  Waitstaff ,  Cash ,  Groups ,  Bar ,  Bar Scene ,  Seating ,  Special Occasion Dining ,  Serves Alcohol ,  Dinner ,  Child-friendly ,  Outdoor Seating ,  Full Bar

Location
166 Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand