our menu.

CUCINA DI ESPOSITO

    Antipasti
   Prosciutto di San Daniele
   Parma ham with mozarella and roquette salad

   Barbabietole con ricotta salata
   Roasted beetroot salad with shavings of salted ricotta & lemon
  
   Bruschetta con gamberetti
   With a salad of ‘school’ prawns, heirloom tomatoes, basil

   Carpaccio di manzo
   Slices of beef with a caper sauce

   Calamari fritti
   Dusted in semolina, with potato salad and mayonnaise

   Insalata di polpo e finocchio
   Slow cooked octopus with a salad of fennel and mint

   Le Zuppe
   Zuppa di pesce livornese
   Slow-cooked fish soup, the “fishmonger’s” soup

   La ribollita
   Twice cooked Tuscan bean and vegetable soup with ‘farfalline’
  
   Paste fatte in casa e risotto
   Linguini con ‘cicale’ di mare
   Pasta tossed with fresh bay bugs, dash of tomato and chilli
  
   Ravioli con capesante
   Scallop filled ravioli with a saffron sauce

   Gnocchi tartufati al ragú
   Truffled gnocchi with a ragú of duck in wine

   Parpadelle con coniglio
   Ribbon pasta with slow cooked rabbit and artichoke

   Risotto ‘Vialone Nano’
   with mudcrab, nettles and pinenuts
  
   Pesce di mare
   Pesce intero  
   Whole baby snapper with braised fennel and gremolata

   Pesce ai ferri
   Rock flathead fillets with warm potato salad and soft herbs

   Pesce grigliate
   Barramundi fillets with wilted radicchio and tomatoes

   Carne alla brace
   Costola di manzo
   Char-grilled T-Bone with fresh lemon, salt, extra virgin olive oil

   Porterhouse
   Chargrilled 300g steak with celeriac slaw, roquette, lemon, oil  

   Altre Carne
   Anatra arrosto
   Half duck, crispy finish, with cumquat and red wine glaze

   Vitello brasato
   Braised veal shank in white wine sauce and olive oil mash

   Porchetta
   Roast suckling pig with carrots, chicory and pan juices

   Contorni
   Patate fritte - large chips tossed with chives
   Maria’s salad - fresh dressed mixed leaves
   Fagiolini - green beans tossed with oil and chilli
   Spinaci saltati - wilted spinach with lemon juice
   Polenta fritta - panfried polenta chips

   Dolci
   Zabaglione semifreddo e biscotto
   Whipped marsala and egg yolks, served chilled

   Pannacotta con mele cotogne bollite
   Italian cooked cream with poached quinces

   Zuppa inglese
   Italian chocolate trifle

   Affogato with Frangelico, Amaretto (or without)
   Two scoops vanilla ice cream, a short black coffee and...

   Formaggio
   A choice of up to 3 different cheeses depending on availability