Thursday 9 December 2010

Week beginning December 13th - Christmas Holidays

Just a short note this week to let you all know we will be closing for Christmas holidays from the 23rd of December up until the 10th of January.

In the meantime and in the lead up to Christmas, the fabulous Jared has created a wonderfully naughty Christmas menu including Champagne and camembert soup and of course the popular Pan forte and his amazing mince pies as well as choclate and blackberry muffins.

We are very much looking forwrad to eating this menu, then having somne time off to recover.....Nice

Breakfast
Traditional bircher muesli with rhubarb and raspberry compote 2.90
Wheat free muesli with popped corn and compote 2.90
Fruit salad (pineapple, mango, strawberries, grapes, passionfruit, peach) 2.90
Ciabatta Roll with omelette, pancetta, rocket and tomato salsa 4.00
Croissant with Italian roast ham, talleggio cheese, spinach & plum tomatoes 4.00
Croissant with gruyere cheese and plum tomatoes 3.20
Seven seed bakery bloomer toast with homemade preserves 1.70
Cranberry and Walnut 1.70
Banana Bread 2.00

Porridge with condiments of muscovado sugar, dried fruit, chopped nuts, honey or rhubarb and raspberry compote 2.50

Pastries by Seven Seed bakery
French butter croissants 1.60
Pain au chocolat 2.00
Almond croissants 2.60

Baked Treats
Chocolate and blackberry muffins 1.80
Mince Pies 1.80
Pan Forte 1.80
Carrot Cake friands (wheat free) 1.80
Super moist chocolate brownies 2.20
White chocolate blondies 2.20
Portuguese tarts 1.80
ANZAC cookies 1.60
Afgan biscuits 1.60

Lunch
Soup 3.00/3.50
Camembert and champagne

Foccacias with sea salt and rosemary crust 4.70
Turkey, cranberry jelly, red onion, parsley, brie, spinach
Mozzarella, puttanesca, plum tomato, rocket

French retro baguettes 4.30
Ham, sage butter, Gruyere, Parmesan, rocket
Pickle, blue vein, gherkin, red onion, spinach

Salads £4.00/£5.00/£8.00
Roast Ham, Stuffing balls, toasted pine nuts, roasted potato and carrot salad
Baby carrots cooked in Honey
Ratatouille on salad greens

Tart 4.00 or 6.00 with salad
Creamed Brussels Sprouts Tart

Peter, Catherine, Emma, Krysty, Justin, Amy, Melissa, Jessica, Jared, Khan

Thursday 2 December 2010

Week beginning December 6th - Christmas Treats

Now we're talking. It's Christmas, it's Christmas!!!!

Pan Forte, a traditional Italian Christmas slice/cake
Real rum balls, covered in chcolate and coconut
Own made mince pies

We love a good Christmas here at Kaffeine, and as we are all from New Zealand and Australia, having snow and cold weather at this time of year makes it all the more special.(some of our staff saw snow for the first time ever this week!)

Mrs Kaffeine and I especially love being in cold weather at Christmas time, and having friends and family over or staying in a lovely cosy pub/cafe eating great food, with welcoming and warm service and with great friends and family having a laugh. It's brilliant.

So we try to create that atmosphere at Kaffeine, the windows all fog up and you cannot see inside, but when you come in it is toasty warm, the lovely smell of coffee permeates the air and combined with Chef Jared baking all the wonderful regular treats and now the special Christmas treats downstairs, it just makes you feel warm and comfortable all over.

Come on in, stay a while......enjoy.

Breakfast
Traditional bircher muesli with rhubarb and raspberry compote 2.90
Wheat free muesli with popped corn and compote 2.90
Fruit salad (pineapple, mango, strawberries, grapes, passionfruit, peach) 2.90
Ciabatta Roll with omelette, pancetta, rocket and tomato salsa 4.00
Croissant with Italian roast ham, talleggio cheese, spinach & plum tomatoes 4.00
Croissant with gruyere cheese and plum tomatoes 3.20
Seven seed bakery bloomer toast with homemade preserves 1.70
Cranberry and Walnut 1.70
Banana Bread 2.00

Porridge with condiments of muscovado sugar, dried fruit, chopped nuts, honey or rhubarb and raspberry compote 2.50

Pastries by Seven Seed bakery
French butter croissants 1.60
Pain au chocolat 2.00
Almond croissants 2.60

Baked Treats
Sticky pecan and banana muffins 1.80
Mince Pies 1.80
Pan Forte 1.80
Carrot Cake friands (wheat free) 1.80
Super moist chocolate brownies 2.20
White chocolate blondies 2.20
Portuguese tarts 1.80
ANZAC cookies 1.60
Afgan biscuits 1.60

Lunch
Soup 3.00/3.50
Fabada - Spicy Spanish Stew with Chorizo, white beans and bread

French retro baguettes 4.30
Ham, sage butter, parmesan and rocket OR
Putanesca, bufala mozzerella, plum tomatoes, spinach and basil

Foccacias with sea salt and rosemary crust 4.70
Roast squash with porcini mushrooms and blue cheese OR
Roast breast of turkey with brie, crnaberry, spinach, red onion and parsley

Salads £4.00/£5.00/£8.00
Italian roast ham with chestnuts, roast onion, apple, watercress and a spicy orange dressing OR
Ratatouille on salad greens OR
Honey and thyme glazed baby carrots

Tart 4.00 or 6.00 with salad
Squash puree layered with bread and a creme fraiche and mustard sauce

Peter, Catherine, Emma, Krysty, Justin, Amy, Melissa, Jessica, Jared, Khan