Address
502 Karamu Road North, Hastings, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, 4122, New Zealand
The Cat in Hawkes Bay Menu
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TO BEGIN....- Selection of Homemade Bread and Dips $8.5 For 2 / $13 For 4
- Garlic and Herb Bread $7 For 2 / $12 For 4
SMALLER OFFERINGS....-
Shrimp Cocktail $13.90
- Shrimps bound in a rose sauce above shredded lettuce finished with pan fried prawns
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Paua Fritters $16.90
- NZ Paua fritters served above a mesclun salad finished with streaky bacon and aioli
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Seafood Chowder $16.90
- Chefs creamy and rich seafood chowder, served with toasted bread
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Seared Scallops $17.90
- Resting on herb crushed gourmet potatoes and wilted greens topped with hollandaise and a basil pesto
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Salt 'n' Pepper Squid $15.90 E / $29.90 M
- Served on a salad of mesclun, coriander, shallots and crispy garlic tossed with a Vietnamese dressing
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Chefs Signature Seafood $19.90
- Scallops on black pudding, prawns on mango and pineapple salsa and salt and pepper squid
- - 2 legs, main size $31.90
- - 1 leg $19.90
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Confit of Duck
- Served on roasted vegetables with wilted spinach finished with a merlot jus
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''The Cat'' Guinness Pie $15.90
- A homemade beef and Guinness Pie served with roasted root vegetables and a garden salad
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Caesar Salad $16.90
- Cos lettuce, bacon, and parmesan bound in a Caesar dressing finished with croutons and a poached egg
OPEN SANDWICHES....- - Or as a bowl $6.50
- - On side $3.00
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Optional Extras
- French Fries / Gourmet Potatoes / Roasted Vegetables
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Lamb Rump Sandwich $21.90
- Seared lamb rump on toasted brioche with mesclun, caramelised onion jam, tomato, streaky bacon & aged cheddar topped with basil pesto
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White Bait Fritter Sandwich $21.00
- Served on toasted brioche with mesclun finished with hollandaise (Please enquire with staff as to availability of whitebait)
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Paua Fritter Sandwich $19.90
- Served on toasted bread topped with mesclun, streaky bacon and aioli
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Scotch Fillet Sandwich $21.90
- Served on toasted bread and a mesclun salad
LARGER OFFERINGS....- On herbed crushed gourmet potatoes, wilted spinach, roasted Portobello mushroom topped with air dried tomatoes and merlot jus (Beef dishes can be served with fries and salad option if desired)
- 300g Porterhouse $26.90
- 200g Scotch Fillet $25.90
- 300g Scotch Fillet $29.90
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Chatham Island Blue Cod Fish and Chips $19.90 / $24.90
- Freshly beer battered fish served with fries and a mesclun salad with tomato and tartare sauces. Available as a 150g or 200g portion of fish
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Fish of the Day $29.90
- Sourced fresh from the local market served on a mixed seafood risotto
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Portobello Stack $24.90
- Portobello mushrooms infused with blue cheese, basil pesto and sweet chilli above spinach and roasted vegetables
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Seared Scallops $31.90
- Resting on herb crushed gourmet potatoes and wilted greens topped with hollandaise and a basil pesto
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Chefs Signature Seafood $34.90
- A trio of scallops served above black pudding, prawns on mango and pineapple salsa and salt and pepper squid
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Braised Hawke's Bay Lamb Shank $28.90
- Resting on parsnip and potato mash and wilted spinach with bacon and a mushroom jus
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Confit of Pork Belly $25.90
- Twice cooked Pork Belly above colcannon potato with spinach finished with a pineapple, mango, and chive salsa
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Pork Spare Ribs $25.90
- Served with fries and salad
DESSERT....-
Cheese Board $27.50
- Selection of Whitestone Brie, Whitestone Blue and Kapiti Aged Waxed Cheddar served with onion jam, roasted pear, homemade chutney and grapes with water cracker
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Creme Brulee $12.90
- Chef's Brûlée served with seasonal fruit salad and short bread
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Death by Chocolate Mudcake $14.90
- Chocolate mud cake, chocolate ice-cream and topped with chocolate sauce
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Sticky Date Pudding $11.90
- Served warm with homemade toffee sauce and vanilla ice cream
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Affogato $13.90
- Vanilla bean ice cream served with a double espresso and your choice of liqueur
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Individual Baked Cheesecake $12.90
- Served with berry coulis and ice cream
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Trio of Rush Munro Ice Cream $13.90
- Served with berry coulis above a seasonal fruit salad
Nearby Sample Menus
- Roasted tomato $6
- extra fix $1.5
- Ricotta cake, D-bottled fruit, oatmeal crumble, Arataki honey $14.5
- Fish in the bag, pearl couscous, cherry tomato, spinach, preserved lemon and green olive butter $33
- Pulled pork , white polenta, apple and fennel salad, pollen salt $27.5
- Corned beef hash cake, roquette salad, grain mustard aioli $16.5
- Antipasti Plate - Italian salami with truffle, coppa, prosciutto, house pickled garlic, marinated green olives, artichoke $28.5
- with one fix of custard, jelly or chocolate $7.5
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Smoked Beef Salad $28.00
- Tender hot-smoked beef, medium rare and thinly sliced mesclun with cherry tomatoes, capiscum, spring onions, mung beans, crispy noodles and an Asain-style dressing.
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Off The Track Loaf – Whole $13.00
- Homemade oven baked loaf, served with garlic butter and quality extra virgin olive oil & balsamic reduction.
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Garlic Prawns $20.00
- Prawn cutlets seared in garlic butter and white wine, topped iwth citrus beurre blanc and served in a wonton basket with cherry tomatoes and salad.
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Pork Sausages & Mash $27.00
- Our homemade herb & onion pork sausages served over potato mash with gourmet mushrooms and topped with caramelised onion gravy
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Rosemary Lamb Shank (GF) $27.00
- An old fashioned lamb shank on creamy potato mash with a rosemary tomato sauce, accompanied by steamed vegetables with hollandaise.
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Bowl of Wedges $10.00
- Served with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.
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Scallops Taco $20.00
- Grilled scallops on a flour tortilla, topped with shredded lettuce, avocado, a garlic sour cream dressing and Mexican chilli pepper sauce.
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Cheese Board $23.00
- Brie, creamy blue, cheddar cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and gherkins with bread, crackers and jalapeno relish.
- Greek Yoghurt $3
- Freekah & Cucumber Salad, Orange Blossom Dressing Sauce $7
- Basil Pesto Roasted Mushrooms, Flatbread, Grilled Mozzarella, Greens Add An Egg +2.5 $18.5
- Sticky South African Pudding, Frozen Yoghurt, Fresh Strawberries, Pistachios $15.5
- All Of The Above $25
- Smoked Salmon Kedgeree, Spiced Rice, Kasundi, Coriander, Fried Egg Add Another Egg + 2.5 $18.5
- Gochujang Glazed Bacon $5.5
- Chef’S Noodle Bowl $24
- Calamari Rings (5) $9.90
- - Large $24.90
- Chicken Nuggets 1/2 doz (+sauce) $4.20
- Blue Cod
- Seafood Chowder $9.90
- Kiddy Dessert $3.90
- Oysters (5) $9.90
- Blue Cod - Crumbed $5.20 $5.70
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Raw fish, grilled fish, salad $22
- Some cooked, some raw, you can choose different fish if you please.
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Grilled Northland Mackerel $18
- Skordalia, parsley, cherry tomatoes, grilled lemon
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Fritter & salad $12
- Choose a fritter or fish cake from the cabinet with your salad. You're a low carb freak
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Natural oysters, rock or Bluff (seasonal) $4
- Oysters as natural as they come, just with lemon. Sold each
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White fish bites $8
- Crumbed or tempura fish bites - perfect for the kids
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Squid $8
- Strips of squid with soft batter coating. Delish
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The 7 Day gravlax $12
- South Island Salmon cured for at least 7 days with a blend of secret 'erbs and spices
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Raw fish & salad $15
- Our freshest sashimi with salad from the cabinet. Your insides love you
- Shoe String Fries $5.50
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Smith's Lunch Bowl $18.50
- Miso glazed salmon, avocado, brown rice, sea vegetables
- BBQ pork, pickled cucumber, smith rolls $18.50
- Roast vegetable, kale hash, poached egg, winter pesto $16.50
- Tempura fish, tartare sauce $14.00
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Smith's Rolls, Pulled Pork $18.50
- B.B.Q. sauce, poached eggs, hollandaise
- Bacon / Sausage / Black Pudding / B.B.Q. Pork $5.50
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Hot and Sour Mussels $21.50
- House cured coriander pork belly, lime chilli broth
- -Chicken $18.50
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MOS-SA-MUN-NER Thai Beef Curry $17.50
- Thai mid yellow curry cooked with coconut cream, onion, potatoes and crushed peanuts
- Chicken/Beef/Pork $18.50
- Meat / Seafood or Crispy Pork $5.00
- (CYM)Choice of your meat:
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PAD-KEE-MAO Fried Rice Noodles with Spicy Sauce (CYM)
- Stir fried rice noodles & your choice of meat, garlic, chilli, basil, capsicum, bamboo shoots and green beans
- Please Specify - Mild / Medium / Hot
- -Chicken $16.50
- Cajun Crumbed Mushrooms $5.90
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Horopito Chilli Prime Rib $36.90
- Prime Rib with spicy Horopito chilli sauce. Heat rating is 7/10!
- Pan-Roasted Fillet of Blue Cod $27.90
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Cherry Tomato & Feta Bruschetta $12.90
- Cherry tomatoes and crumbled feta cheese with Spanish onion, balsamic vinegar and cracked black pepper. Served with garlic and herb bread.
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Hogster’s Healthy Helpings $5.90
- Corn on the Cob / Bowl of Fresh Vegetables / House Side Salad
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Natural Prime Rib – Lite Cut $26.90
- Served with our Trim-a-licious salad.
- 3 Pan-seared Garlic Prawns $7.90
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Avocado & Honey Mustard Chicken -Lite $21.90
- With avocado and honey mustard dressing. Served with grilled chicken and our Trim-a-licious salad.
- Grilled tuna, niçoise salad, tarragon, confit onion $39
- Beef Fillet, mushroom & spring vegetable tart, horseradish butter $40
- Half dozen oysters shucked to order Natural $26 Sampler $30
- Organic leaf salad, seeds, lemon dressing $9
- Smoked salmon, pickled onion pearls, chive mayonnaise, almond puff $24
- Courgette flower tempura, smoked yoghurt, cauliflower, tomato jam $36
- Lamb short loin, goats cheese, gremolata, sweetbreads, eggplant, kale pistou $39
- Beetroot parfait, truffled quark, asparagus, fried shiitake, sherry vinaigrette $21
- Meyer Vintage Gouda [NZ] see below
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Una Selección (#1) $14.5
- hazelnut meringue stack, double fudge chocolate mousse & vanilla marscapone w kahlua syrup
- Whitestone Lindis Pass Brie [NZ] see below
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St Germain $10.5
- hand-made passionfruit & elderflower liqueur
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Roasted Pumpkin Salad $16.9
- w halloumi, quinoa, caramalised onion & a tahini yoghurt dressing
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Almonds $7.9
- rosemary + sea-salt
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Anchovy Bruschetta $15.9
- spanish white 'boquerones' w tomato + persillade
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Venison Meatballs $14.5
- w chilli plum dipping sauce
- “Bostock’s” chicken thigh, tomato capsicum mustard, prosciutto, fennel, granola, parmesan $37
- “Ovation” lamb short loin, braised lamb dumpling, carrot, ginger, bok choy $37
- Shoestring fries, confit garlic aioli, smoked salt $7
- Baked ricotta, charred eggplant puree, caper vinaigrette, pine nut, pickled raisins $28
- Pork belly, black pudding, apple, pickled grapes & red cabbage $19
- Ormlie mini loaf, garlic & herb butter, dukkah $10
- Marinated olives $8
- Heirloom tomato, capers, red onion, goat cheese, olive crumb, basil $18
- Four Seasons $14.00 - $24.00
- Dumpling 6 Pack $9.00
- Romana $12.00 - $19.00
- Dumpling 12 Pack Combo $16.00
- Soba Noodle Salad $5.00
- Fruits of the Sea $16.00 - $27.00
- Margherita $8.00 - $14.00
- Pork Belly Steamed Bun $5.00
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Lunchtime shout deal $11.50
- (Serving per head) 1x large filled roll, 1x cake OR slice, 1x mini pie OR small sausage roll, 1x hot fried food ( $3.00 range only)
- Club sandwich $1.00
- Neenish tart $1.20
- Mini pie $1.40
- Large sausage roll $2.80
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Option #2 $5.25
- (Serving per head) 1x small sausage roll, 1x mini pie, 1x sweet slice OR muffin
- Mini filled roll $3.00
- Spring roll OR curry roll $2.50
- Sweet & Sour Chicken $21.00
- Squid & Black Bean Sauce $23.50
- Duck, Pineapple & Vegetables $27.50
- Pork $20.50
- China Light Special $23.00
- Prawn & Roast Pork $24.00
- Vegetable Fried Noodles (Eg or R) $21.50
- Chicken & Plum Sauce $21.00
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Potato wedges $8.90
- with Bacon, Mozzarella and Aioli
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Kiwi burger $9.80
- 100% Beef patty homemade Tomato slice Beetroot Coleslaw Caramelised onion Aioli lemon homemade sauce.
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Kids burger $5.00 or $7.90
- with chips and juice Homemade Kids patty or chicken tender. tomato sauce Lettuce cheese
- Hot chips $2.50
- 3 Churros $10
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Hawaiian burger $10.90
- 100% Real Chicken tenderloins Roasted pineapple tenderloins Roasted pineapple Streaky bacon Cheese Aioli lemon homemade sauce.
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Chilean burger $12.50
- 100% Beef patty homemade Grilled onion, garlic Avocado sauce Tomatoes slices Grilled cheese Streaky bacon Aioli lemon homemade sauce
- Also available gluten free bun $1.00 Extra
The Cat
Phone
8769848
Opened hours
Monday: Closed, Tuesday: 4:00 – 10:00 PM, Wednesday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM, Thursday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM, Friday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM, Saturday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM, Sunday: 11:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Price
$20 - $30
Type
None
Service
Table Service
Cuisine
Bar , Cafe Food , European , Gluten Free , New Zealand , Pub Food , Vegetarian
Features
Wheelchair accessible , Reservations , Waitstaff , Groups , Seating , Highchairs Available , Serves Alcohol , Child-friendly , Outdoor Seating