Vanilla Cafe in Tauranga Menu

MAIN MAIN
  • Basil and Philadelphia creamy cheese ravioli / $18.50
    • Basil and Cashew nuts pesto, parmesan waffle, lemon olive oil roasted mini tomato
  • -Served with 6 roasted garlic prawns $28.50
  • Creamy seafood chowder $24.00
    • 1 white fish fillet of the day, prawns, scallops, mussel, Sauvignon blanc
  • Confit of duck's leg $27.00
    • Kumara puree, orange and star aniseed sauce
  • Beef burgundy $28.00
    • Braised beef, onions, carrots, bacon, slowly cooked for 3 hours in Pinot Noir & Burgundy spices, roasted potatoes
  • Pork Belly roulade $26.00
    • Slow cooked, melt in the mouth, dried cherry, apple, berry cider and maple syrup sauce
  • Navarin of Lamb $27.00
    • Slow cooked lamb, tomatoes, garlic, turnip, carrot, polenta cake, shallots
  • Stuffed chicken breast $28.00
    • Cranberry, plum, herbs, brandy and quince sauce, roasted potato
  • Chicken Cannelloni $26.00
    • Bechamel sauce, nutmeg, gruyere, oven roasted
DINNER MENU - ENTREE / APPETIZER DINNER MENU - ENTREE / APPETIZER
  • Homemade bread (serves 2 ) $12.00
    • Olive oil, cream of balsamic vinegar, aioli, red pesto
  • Homemade garlic bread (serves 2) $12.00
  • Duck, chicken, bacon terrine (pate), garden salad, filo pastry cup, toasted bread, onion and fig jam $14.00
  • Creamy Seafood chowder $17.00
    • 1/2 white fish fillet of the day, prawns, scallops, mussel, Sauvignon blanc
  • Platter to share (serves 2) $36.00
    • Teriyaki chicken, Spanish spicy meatballs. Puhoi camembert, duck pate, beer battered prawns, smoked salmon, fresh bread, olives, sweet and sour sauce, aioli, sesame cracker, smoked mussel
DESSERT DESSERT
  • Chocolate Mousse $12.00
    • Chocolate shaving, Callebaut chocolate
  • Crepe $12.00
    • Salted caramel, berry ice cream, slivered almond
  • Crepe $12.00
    • Vanilla ice cream, warm Belgium chocolate
  • Vanilla Ice Cream Sundae $12.00
    • Warm Belgium chocolate
  • Affogato : Vanilla Ice Cream $14.00
    • Liqueur shot choice of Frangelico or Drambuie, intense espresso coffee mix at your table
  • 2 Petit choux profiterole $13.00
    • Crème patissier (refined custard), warm Belgium chocolate topping

Nearby Sample Menus

  • Comfortably Numb $9
    • Premium Killinchy Gold New Zealand ice cream. Served with wafers and berry coulis.
  • Huckleberry Hound Dawg $11
    • Frankie frankfurter in a bun with cheese.
  • Gerhard Burger $25
    • NZ grass-fed Wagyu beef pattie, onion jam, swiss cheese, free-range egg, tomato, red onion, lettuce and aioli in an artisan sourdough bun. Served with straight-cut chips...the Ferrari of burgers, perfect with a Steinlager. Also available as a vegetarian option with a lentil, pea and kumara pattie
  • Chief's Chicken Nibbles $16
    • Blanched in soy, honey and spices. Served with a hoisin, orange and sesame seed sauce.
  • Redneck Ribs six $19 nine $28
    • Porky Pig's ribs blanched in honey and spices. Blasted in the Lone Star fire, piled high then smothered in our famous hoisin, orange and sesame seed sauce.
  • Dessert free!
    • Lone Star ‘Mudslide’ ice cream.
  • Johnny Cash Stash medium $32 classic $37
    • Chicken breast stuffed with mushroom, spinach, cheese and sundried tomatoes. Herb-crusted and oven-baked. Served with a chunky mushroom sauce, buffalo chips and Lone Star coleslaw.
  • Banoffee Pie $12
    • Homemade sweet pastry, layered with caramel, banana, sweet coffee cream and chocolate.
  • Seared Eye Fillet with portabello mushrooms, Café de Paris Butter and red wine sauce $39.50
  • Hohepa Aged Cheddar or Mt Eliza Blue
  • Salad of cos leaves with grano padano and classic vinaigrette $8.50
  • Somerset dishes that we’re not allowed to take off the menu!
  • Vanilla Crème Caramel with baked rhubarb, ginger and coconut cream $17.50
  • Homemade Bread, Grove Cold Pressed Avocado Oil and our own sweet butter $5.50
  • Twice Baked Cheese Soufflé with oven roasted paprika pears $19.90
  • Chicken Liver and Duck Pate, gingerbread crumbs, cardamom pickled oranges toasted ciabatta $19.90
  • Scaloppine Marsala $22.00
    • Pork medallions with Marsala wine, mushroom and cream sauce
  • Siciliana $21.00
    • Homemade tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, capers, olives
  • Fettucine Ai Funghi $17.00
    • Fettuccine cooked in chicken and mushroom, garlic and cream sauce
  • Bay Of Plenty $21.50
    • Homemade tomato, mozzarella, camembert cheese, chicken and avocado
  • Spaghetti Carbonara $16.50
    • Simply blended with bacon, egg and cream sauce
  • Tortellini Alla Crema $17.00
    • Rings of pasta filled with minced chicken, served in a ham, mushroom and cream sauce
  • Penne All’Arrabbiata $16.50
    • Tubular pasta in a bacon, garlic, chilli and napoletana sauce
  • Pollo Alle Albicocche $23.00
    • Chicken breast in marsala wine cream sauce topped with apricot halves and camembert cheese
  • Green seasonal salad $8.50
  • Braised beef cheeks
    • Through pappardelle pasta with a rich, earthy sauce, herbs and grana padana
  • Herb crusted NZ lamb rack $35.00
  • Cheese board $24.50
    • A selection of two cheeses served with crackers, grapes and seasonal chutney
  • Pear, rucula and blue cheese $22.00
  • Sorbet selection $14.50
    • With a nut crumble and berry sauce
  • Grilled haloumi salad
    • On red chard, orange, baby beetroot, almonds and balsamic glaze
  • Cured meat board $34.00
    • With prosciutto, salami, basecamp venison, salami and beef carpaccio
  • MEDITERRANEAN LAMB SALAD GFO 24
    • Char-grilled lamb fillets, labneh, zucchini, herbs and flat bread
  • STEAK SANDWICH GFO 25
    • Grilled Scotch fillet rocket, creamy feta, chimichurri and fries
  • FLASH FISH + CHIPS 22
    • Beer battered fish, fries, tartare sauce and summer garden salad
  • SUNFLOWER EGGS 18.5
    • Two poached eggs, avocado, sunflower shoots, feta and seeds on whole grain V
  • Avocado 4
  • Bacon and eggs on toasted soldiers 7
  • Lamb cutlets and chips with carrot sticks 10
  • Gluten Free Bread 3
  • Vegetable korma $14.50
    • Fresh vegetable cooked with cashew nut, cream, coconut, mild herbs, spices, ginger, cinnamon and cardamom.
  • Chicken biryani $16.00
    • Chicken cooked with rice in herbs and spices.
  • Fish vindaloo $18.50
    • Fresh fish pieces cooked in onion gravy, potatoes and hot ground spices.
  • Chicken/ lamb/ beef rajasthani $17.00
    • Diced meat prepared in rich butter sauce with cashew gravyand simmered over slow fire mouth watering dish.
  • Palak paneer $14.00
    • Freshly made cottage cheese cooked with puree of fresh leafy spinach and blend of spices.
  • Keema naan $5.00
    • Stuffed with spiced mince mixture of meat.
  • ●Seekh kebab
    • Spiced keema (minced) meat prepared then skewered in tandoori oven.
  • Kadhai firsh or prawn $18.00
    • King prawns cooked with tomatoes onion cream fresh coriander and chef special gravy.
  • Beer Battered Fish n Chips - Beer Battered Fresh Fish, Tay St Slaw $24.00
    • Fries, Roast Garlic Aioli, Lemon Cheek. Wine Match – Mills Reef Reserve Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2015
  • Blended Fruit Smoothies $9.00
    • Mixed Berries, Banana, Natural Yoghurt, LSA, Honey, Green Tea Or; Banana, Pineapple, Coconut, Natural Yoghurt, Honey, Milk
  • Tay St Green Leaves Salad $12.00
  • Crispy Tofu (GF) $12.00
  • Baked Eggplant (GF) $13.00
    • Crispy Eggplant, Miso Rub, Wasabi Mayo. Wine Match – Clearview Coastal Hawkes Bay Chardonnay 2015
  • Potato Croquettes (GF) $18.00
    • Potato & Tapioca Croquettes, Smashed Egg, Edamame, Wilted Summer Greens, Cherry Tomatoes, Chili, Satay Sauce
  • Tay Street Burger $23.00
    • Changing weekly, ask the wait staff for this week’s creation. Beer Match -Panhead Port Road Pilsner OR Parrot Dog Bitter Bitch IPA
  • Build Your Own Breakfast Two Free Range Eggs - Poached/Fried/Scrambled. Toasted Sourdough (GF bread available) $10.00
  • 6. Tandoori Broccoli $9.59
  • $14.99
  • 29. Veg Korma $9.00 / $12.90
  • 12. French Rack of Lamb $12.00
  • 19. Chicken / Lamb / Beef Saagwala $9.90 / $12.90
  • 11. Lamb Seekh Kebab $10.00
  • 20. Chicken / Lamb / Beef Korma $9.90 / $12.90
  • 55. Naan $3.00
  • VEGETARIAN Mushroom Risotto $24.50
    • infused with red onion & white wine topped with a parmesan crisp served with a basil pesto & toasted ciabatta bread
  • VEGETARIAN Linguini $17.50
    • Red onion, diced tomato, baby spinach, button mushroom & capsicum tossed with linguini pasta bound in a creamy parmesan sauce topped with crumbled feta
  • Fries $6.50
  • Prawns & Scallops $22.50
    • King prawns & skewered scallops served with a light salad, kumara crisps & a sweet chilli sauce
  • Treasure Island $32.50
    • King prawns & skewered scallops served with a salmon fillet accompanied with a garden salad, garlic roasted potatoes & a honey soy sauce
  • Seared salmon fillet $31.50
    • topped with a hollandaise sauce set upon a bed of turmeric potatoes, wilted spinach & roasted tomato
  • Lamb Cutlets $32.50
    • Succulent NZ lamb cutlets served with roasted potato & pumpkin, seasonal salad & mint sauce
  • Free range roasted chicken supreme $31.50
    • stuffed with camembert & bacon set on a kumara rosti, braised asparagus topped with red pepper puree & carrot crisps served with a turmeric champagne sauce
  • Seasonal Vegetables $6.50
  • Crème Brulee $13.00
    • Served with vanilla ice cream
  • Roast Pumpkin Salad $16.00
    • warm roasted pumpkin, blue cheese, cashews & baby spinach, drizzled with a maple & balsamic dressing
  • Mash & Gravy $6.00
  • Prawn & Pumpkin Risotto $25.00
    • Creamy risotto with prawns, pumpkin, feta, dill &
  • Beef Nachos $15.00
    • Spicy Cajun mince topped with cheese, avocado
  • Breaky wrap $15.00
    • 2 tried eggs, hash brown, bacon, tomato & hollandaise,
  • Sticky Ribs $30.00
    • Fall off the bone ribs, marinated in our own secret bbq sauce, served with wedges
  • ●Benedict bap
  • -Bacon(2) $5.00
  • Gourmet open sandwich $18.50
  • ●Fries
  • Bircher muesli $16.50
    • With berry compote & honey yoghurt or homemade granola & fruit
  • -Mushroom $5.00
  • Big breakfast $19.50
    • With mushroom, bacon, sausage, eggs, whole grain toast & fried potato
  • Grilled chicken & chips $10.00
  • Strawberry cheesecake $3.50
  • 5 Spicy chicken wings $6.00
  • Italiano $8.90
    • Spicy pepperoni, cabanossi, mushroom, capsicum, olives and melting mozzarella with garlic & oregano seasoning
  • Choose from: Hash bites/ Large fries/ Garlic bread/ Onion rings/ Soft drinks 1.5L $6.00
  • Hash bites $3.50
  • BBQ Hawaiian $8.50
    • Tasty ham, bacon, pineapple, onion & mozzarella with a tangy BBQ swirl
  • Veg supreme $7.50
    • Mushroom, onion, capsicum, pineapple, tomato ane melting mozzarella with garlic & oregano seasoning
  • Seafood deluxe $11.50
    • A delicious combination of shrimp, calamari, clams, mussels, surimi with melting mozzarella & lemon pepper sprinkle
  • Mushroom $3.00
  • Pancakes $14.50
    • Homemade buttermilk pancake with caramelised banana, berry compote, maple syrup and cream
  • Steak hash stack $24.00
    • 150g rump steak sitting on hash brown with creamy mushroom, spinach & bacon topped with a poached egg served with tomato.
  • Mince on toast $15.00
    • Savoury Mince on toasted sourdough bread with a poached egg.
  • Kids bacon & egg on toast $8.00
  • Tomato $3.00
  • All day breakfast with Gluten and Dairy free options available.
  • Toast (GF) $2.00
  • Red Thai Chicken Curry N/A
    • With fragrant rice, roti, crispy poppadam & mango chutney
  • Warm sticky date pudding N/A
    • Butterscotch Sauce, Anglaise & Ice Cream
  • Beef bacon & mushroom pie N/A
    • A Delicious rich caserole in buttery puff pastry served with wilted greens
  • Apple & Blackberry Crumble N/A
    • With custard sauce & ice cream
  • Pineapple Fritters in Cinnammon Sugar N/A
    • With Cramel sauce & ice cream
  • Main & Dessert only $30
  • Slow braised Hawkes bay lamb shank N/A
    • With potato & chive mash, greens, red wine jus & mint jelly on the side
  • Pho $18.00
    • Broth, rice noodles, prawns, seasoned vegetables, fresh herbs
  • Creamy Mushroom $19.00
    • Creamy mushroom, cabanossi sausage, toasted ciabatta
  • Jam and butter $6.00
  • Fish $21.00
    • Pan fried fish, French fries, petit salad, Tartar sauce
  • Spinach, Gluten free bread, Bagel, Ciabatta $3.00
  • Croissant
  • Eggs Benedict $18.00
    • Bacon, tomato, spinach or Smoked salmon, spinach
  • Vegetarian $21.00
    • Roasted Porto Bello mushroom, hash potato, tomato, onion, asparagus, organic sourdough. Add egg $2.00 - Add hollandaise $2.00
Vanilla Cafe

Vanilla Cafe

location

Address

291 Maungatapu Road, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand

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+64 7-544 8400

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Tuesday 7:30am–3pm Wednesday 7:30am–3pm Thursday 7:30am–3pm Friday 7:30am–3pm Saturday 8:30am–3pm Sunday 8:30am–3pm Monday 7:30am–3pm
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Location
291 Maungatapu Road, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand
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