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
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Beef Fajitas $10.00
- pan seared beef w/ spiced harissa sauce & roasted golden beet salsa
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Zalamero El Dorado $10.00
- banana smoothie w/ tequila, chilli & chocolate
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Churros $10.00
- rolled in cinnamon & sugar with a rich caramel sauce
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Black Bean & Bacon Dip $8.50
- w/ crispy tortillas
- Crispy Tortillas $5.00
- Tortillas $4.00
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Costillas De Cerdo $16.00
- coffee, chilli & brown sugar slow braised pork spare ribs
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Tomato, roasted olive & queso blanco salad $12.00
- w/ pine nuts and oregano vinaigrette
- Sour Cream $3.00
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Off The Track Loaf – Half $8.00
- Homemade oven baked loaf, served with garlic butter and quality extra virgin olive oil & balsamic reduction.
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Our Specialty Chatter Platter $53.00
- Creamy blue, chorizo, Brie, salmon pâté, Kashmiri lamb skewers, smoked beef, mini brie tartlets, prawn cutlets, squid, olives, feta, gherkins. Served with freshly made house dips. bread and crackers. (suitable for 2-4 persons).
- Free Range Egg x1 $3.00
- Side Salad $7.00
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Bowl of Wedges $10.00
- Served with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce.
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Soup of the Day $14.00
- Hearty homemade in our Hastings restaurant, served with bread.
- Hash Browns x2 $5.00
- Milk Chocolate & Coffee Ice Cream Pie, Chantilly Cream, Shaved Chocolate $15.5
- All Come With Two Pieces Of Sourdough Or Fancy Brown Toast $N/A
- Green Beans, Tamari Almonds $7
- Spiced, Salted & Roasted Nuts $8
- Croissant With Jam $5.5
- M&H Pork Fennel Sausage $4.5
- 40G Cheese Per Serve $N/A
- Ask Your Waiter For Today’S Flavours $N/A
- Cheese selection for two, Chef’s selection of cheeses, grapes, roasted nuts, crackers, quince paste $27
- Honey roasted Salmon, capsicum, green beans, pineapple, mustard dressing $19
- ‘Canter valley’ confit Duck leg, vanilla infused potato mash, boysenberry,organic vegetables $29
- Pan roasted Hapuka, Lyonnaise potato, kawakawa, samphire, macadamia $29.5
- Jelly top Popsicle, white chocolate & vanilla mousse, raspberry jelly, pineapple sage syrup $16
- Vanilla creme brulee, rich vanilla ice cream, sable crumble, rosemary biscotti $16
- Lamb Rack,puffed barley, sumac labneh, kale, broad beans, garden peas $30
- Agria potato chips, aged parmesan $8
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SIDE FRIES $5.00
- With tomato sauce
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KIDS 1/2 PIZZA $9.00
- Create your own
- SIDE OF MASH $6.00
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STEAK MEAL $30.00
- 250g of ribeye steak served with your choice of(Mashed potato, Wedges, or Fries/ Mushroom, Garlic or Peppercorn Sauce/Seasonal Salad or Vegetables /Add a fried egg $2 / Add Prawns $5)
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BREADS & DIPS $16.00
- Ciabatta Bread & dips
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EGGS BENEDICT $18.00
- Poached eggs on herb potato cakes with bacon, spinach and our freshly made hollandaise sauce (VEGETARIAN $16.00)
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RIBEYE STEAK & SALAD SANDWICH $18.00
- With side of fries
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CHICKEN WEDGES & FRIES $14.00
- With sweet & sour & tomato sauce(KIDS 1/2 SIZE $9.00)
- Tomato, spinach, capsicum and chorizo pasta salad
- OPTIONS
- DESSERT
- Example menu $50
- CANAPES
- Dessert choose two of the followin for (per person) $10
- Honey soy and lime baked chicken drumsticks (per person) $6.00
- Orange and Apple Juice
- Over the Moon triple cream brie - honey comb - Selection of three/Individual $32.50/ $14.90
- Dill, lemon & snapper croquetas harissa mayonnaise $8.90
- Slow roasted lamb shoulder with tomato jam, smoked garlic & olive caramel $68.00
- Marinated olives & vine smoked almonds $8.70
- Smoked salmon & watercress parfait with celery salt $17.50
- Scott's strawberries with wild fennel and buttermilk panna cotta & meringue $14.50
- Fried potatoes with lemon & oregano $9.50
- (includes one of the items below & ice cream waffle cone) N/A
- Beef & Guinness pie, made fresh with fries or salad $19.5
- Sour cream, garlic mayo, sweet chilli (v) each $2
- Beer batter gurnard burger, iceberg, cucumber, tartare & shoestrings $19.5
- Fried onion rings with smoked paprika & aioli (v) $11
- Dark chocolate brownie, whipped cream, chocolate sauce & ice cream
- Green salad & dressing (v, Gf) $8
- Ham, cheese & pineapple pizza
- Fries with garlic mayo (v) $7.5
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Spring Rolls $9
- Spring rolls filled with minced pork, vermicelli and vegetables. Served with our homemade chilli sauce
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Tod Goong $9.5
- Deep fried prawns. Served with our homemade chilli sauce.
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Karee Puff $9
- Curry puff stuffed with minced chicken, kumara and onion. Served with our homemade chilli sauce
- Vegetable Spring Rolls $8
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Mou Gra Tium Prik Thai $14.9
- Stir-fried pork with garlic, pepper and fresh vegetables
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Pad Basil $20.5
- Stir-fried basil, garlic, chilli and fresh vegetables. Choice of Chicken or Beef or Pork $14.90 or Squid or Prawn or Seafood
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Panang Curry $14.9
- Stir-fried panang curry with coconut milk and herbs. Choice of Chicken or Beef or Pork
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Chow Mein $20.5
- Stir-fried egg noodles in oyster sauce and vegetables Choice of Chicken or Beef or Pork $14.90, Squid or Prawn or Seafood
- Proudly Serving Humming Hill Organic Eggs
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Tc’s nutty granola
- Toasted wholegrain organic oats, seeds & nuts, sweetened with honey and served with Hohepa Organic Yoghurt and fresh fruit
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Old skool benedict
- Poached eggs on either crispy slow cooked pork belly, free-farmed bacon, smoked salmon or greens, served on your choice of either a home-made bun or hash cakes & topped with real hollandaise
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Vegetarian omelette
- Cheese and seasonal vegetables, served with our toasted rye bread
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Abundant breakfast
- 2 eggs, bacon, mushrooms, hashbrowns, baked beans & toast
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Ambrozia
- Wholegrain organic rolled oats soaked in spiced apple, served with Hohepa Organic Yoghurt and fresh fruit
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Buckwheat and corn pancakes (gf)
- Served with apple syrup, Hohepa Organic Yoghurt and fresh fruit
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Create-your-own
- Build your own breakie from our range of sides.
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Agedashi Tofu $14.50
- With Udon
- Chicken Yakitori $7.50
- -Large $32.00
- -Small $24.00
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California Roll $13.00
- Crabmeat, Cucumer, Avocado/ Topping:Flying Fish Eggs
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Teriyaki Salmon $17.50
- With Rice
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Vegetarian Sushi Box $13.50
- 4 Vegetable Rolls, 2 Inari (Tofu), 2 Avocado (Nigiri), 2 Seaweed (Nigiri)
- -Sushi Box $15.00
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Surf n' Turf $28.00/$24.00
- Your choice of steak served with prawn & scallop mornay.Prime Ribeye $31.00/Eye Fillet $33.00.(1 Pound/ 2 pound)
- Garlic Prawn Cutlets $24.00
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Rump Steak $24.00/$40.00
- served with your choice of sauce: mushroom, pepper, or café de Paris butter. If you can finish off the whole 2 pounders, your next meal will be half price! 1 Pound/2 pound
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Roast of the Day $15.00/$18.00
- See specials board for details.Small/Large
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Prime Steer Ribeye 280g. $27.00
- served with your choice of sauce: mushroom, pepper, or café de Paris butter, or Surf n’ Turf (prawn & scallop mornay - add $4)
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Pavlova $6.50
- topped with fresh cream and passionfruit
- Pan Seared or Crumbed Scallops $14.00
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Mini-Me Meal $12.00
- Mini-Me Meal – your choice of Roast of the Day, Rump Steak or Market Fish in a junior size.
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Breakfast Waffel $18.50
- with bacon, banana, cream & drizzled with maple syrup
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Belgian Waffel $14.50
- with cream or ice cream , fruit or maple syrup
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Blinis $2.50
- mini pancakes with fruit and maple syrup. plus $1 per year of child
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Arancini balls $14.50
- savoury Arborio rice balls stuffed with feta on roast capsicum tomato salsa & sour cream
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Open steak sandwich $20.00
- served on artisian bread with creamy mushroom sauce
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Big breakfast $20.00
- with bacon, sausage, tomatoes, hash brown, mushrooms, toast ad eggs to your liking
- Mini milkshakes $3
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Warm chicken & bacon salad $17.50
- fresh lettuce, cashewss and crispy noodles
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French Toast $16.50
- bacon, banana & maple syrup
- Kids Pancake Pyramid - Bacon, Banana, Maple $8.00
- Eggs Benedict with Salmon $16.50
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Eggs Benedict Vege Delight $15.50
- spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and avocado
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French Toast $15.50
- fresh seasonal fruit, whipped cream & berry coulis
- Kids Bacon and Eggs - Single Serve $8.00
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CAJUN CHICKEN SALAD $17.00
- cajun chicken, avocado, brie, grapes & citrus dressing
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FOCAL POINT BEEF BURGER $18.50
- with chunky oven baked chips
- Beef $20.50
- Sweet & Sour Pork $20.50
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Liqueured Sundae (R18) $13.50
- (Ice Cream, served with a Double Shot of your choice of Liqueur) Bailey's, Cointreau, Drambuie, Galliano, Glayva, Kahlua, Lochan Ora, Opal Nera, Sambuca, Tia Maria
- Prawn Cocktail $9.50
- Chicken & Prawn $24.00
- Veges & Chinese Bean Sauce $20.50
- Chinese Mushroom $8.50
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Dessert $3.50
- Add a Small Ice Cream Sundae with either Caramel, Chocolate or Strawberry Topping to any meal for just
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