Welcome to Café Escargot

Escargot Dishes (Snail dishes) starters

Six escargot in each dish, except for the Grande, which has thirty for escargot lovers.

Escargot garlic - escargot in garlic butter – 15.00 GF

Crispy salt and pepper escargot - with aioli for dipping - 15.00 GF

Australian bush herbs escargot - crispy escargot seasoned with lemon myrtle and mountain pepper leaf, with chutney for dipping - 15.00 GF

Hot chilli escargot - let us know how you like it, mild or hot - 15.00 GF

Escargot a la crème - creamy fresh herb sauce served on ricotta gnocchi - 20.00

Escargot Mediterranean - oven-roasted tomatoes and capsicum served on ricotta gnocchi – 20 .00

Uno grande piatto di escargot - (A large plate of escargot) - thirty escargot in Mediterranean

sauce served with crusty bread, can be made with hot chilli - 38.00 GF

Entrée lunch or small meals

Antipasto

Italian sliced meats, local cheeses, olives, quince paste and other preserves - 30.00 GF ask for GF bread

Calamatta olives are grown locally and preserved by Vincenza.

Served with: olive oil, garlic, chilli (chilli optional) and bread. These are delicious. - 20.00 GF

Seafood dishes

Salt and pepper calamari rings - with aioli – with a small salad 25.00

Flat head tails - lightly beer battered with aioli – with a small salad 25.00

Mini seafood basket- one of each prawn, flat head tail and calamari rings with a small salad 25..00

Meat dishes

Spanish meatballs – ten lamb and beef meatballs cooked in a rich tasty Italian tomato sauce and a small salad 25.00

Slow-cooked French beef pie - with chutney and a small salad -30.00

Beef Ragu slow cooked - entrée size with house-made gnocchi, pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 25.00

Duck rague entrée- slow-cooked duck drum stick with in- house-made gnocchi, pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 25.00

Chorizo dishes

Chorizo- tossed in tomato salad 25.00 GF

Chorizo -topped on patatas bravas 25.00

Salad and Vegetable Dishes

Garden salad – 18.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)

Seasonal or garden vegetables - bowl 18.00 (gluten-free and vegetarian)

Patatas bravas - cubed rosemary sprinkled Mirboo North potatoes, topped with a rich Mediterranean tomato sauce- 18.00 (gluten free and vegetarian)

Bruschetta- tomato 18.00 

Arancini – three arancini with a tasty cheese filling and topped with a Mediterranean sauce – with a small salad 25.00 (gluten free and vegetarian)

Croquettes- x 3 chicken and veggies in a mornay cheese sauce, topped with slow cooked Italian tomato sauce Mediterranean sauce and a small salad 25.00

Meals for one- Lunch or Dinner

Seafood dishes

Calamari and chips meal - this dish comes with side salad - 35.00

Flat head tails and chips - served with a side salad served with Aioli - 35.00

Large seafood basket - two flat head, two lightly battered prawns, calamari, chips and salad- 35.00

Poultry dishes

Chicken Crepes – in a cheese mornay sauce. Choice of cubed rosemary Mirboo (Gluten free)

North potatoes, garden or seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 35.00

Duck Rague – pulled, slow cooked duck in Italian tomato sauce served on house made ricotta gnocchi - 35.00

Beef , Lamb and Pork dishes

Scotch fillet steak - choice of whiskey sauce, mushroom sauce, pepper sauce or garlic butter garden choice of garden or seasonal vegetables or salad and chips47.00

Sticky beef ribs -slow cooked with choice of seasonal vegetables or salad and chips 35.00

Slow cooked beef rague- Served with in house made gnocchi - pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 35.00

Spanish meat balls - topped with a rich and tasty tomato sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chips - 35.00

Home-made French beef pie - lots of delicious flavours accompanied by tomato chutney , choice of seasonal vegetables or salad and chips – 35.00

Lamb shank- slow cooked in wine and rosemary served on a bed of mash potato, seasonal vegetables or salad - 35.00

Rice and Pasta dishes

Arancini (Rice balls) - three arancini with tasty cheese centre topped mediterranean sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 35.00 (GF &Veg)

Croquettes- three per serve- chicken and veggie in a cheese mornay sauce - topped with a Mediterranean sauce and choice Salad chips or veggies and on the side 35.00 (GF)

Paella for 2 (allow 1 hour for this dish)

Chicken and chorizo or seafood (mild) (gluten free) 50.00

Seafood with lots of yummy seafood (gluten free) 60.00

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Sweets and Cakes all made by Vincenza

All sweets served with scoop of home- made ice-cream.- 18.00 per serve

Baked ricotta cheese cake - (Vincenza’s signature dessert) with ricotta cheese, almonds and dark chocolate.

Hot chocolate pudding - oozing with dark decadent chocolate.

Cannol- filled with half lemon and half chocolate crème patissiere.

Sticky date pudding

Churros – Spanish donuts with chocolate dipping sauce

Mini pavolava - with banana and passion fruit or seasonal berries (G.F)

Home-made ice-cream - three scoops of ice-cream (gluten free)

Chocolate chestnut fudge cake (our chestnuts) (gluten free) 15.00

HIGH TEA

Booking in advance is required for high tea - minimum 2 people - 60.00 pp

Hot savoury selection- Selection of four gourmet sandwiches - Variety of six mini home-made cakes and sweets

- bottomless Tea - Glass of bubbly

Hot Drinks

Cappuccino – 6.00, Latte- 6.00, Mugacino –8.00 , Short black – 6.00, Soy cappuccino – 8.00

Hazelnut hot chocolate – 8.00, Iced coffee – 8.00, Chai Latte – 8.00

Pot of tea – 6.00, Herbal tea - 7.00 ,- Roosibos , Peppermint, green tea ,camoile..... ask staff for more flavours as we have a vast variety

Soft drinks

Coke, Lemonade, Sunkist, Lift – 4.00

Lemon Lime and Bitters, Soda water, Tonic water – 5.00 , Juices -Apple juice, Orange juice - 4.00

Milkshakes

Chocolate, Strawberry, Caramel, Blue Heaven – 8.00, Iced Coffee and Iced Chocolate – 8.00

Alcoholic Coffees

1. Short black or long Black with a shot of brandy or Sambuca on the side – 18.00

2. Irish Coffee with Irish whiskey and Cream – 18.00

4. Café Escargot Mud with jack Daniels, Amaretto and cream – 18.00

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Alcohol Menu (full Licence)

We source our wines from Victorian Wineries.

Vino di gippslandda is our label

White wine by the bottle

Chardonnay $35

Pinot grigio $35

Brut $40.00

Prosecco fruity not sweet $40.

Moscato mini $15

Cider $15

House white $8.00 per glass

Red wines

Pinot Noir $35

Cab Sav $35

Shiraz $35

House red wine $8.00 per glass

Beer 8.00 stubby

Great northern, Carlton draught, Corona, crown, peroni, Birra moretti

Mixed drinks available $12 per shot

Hot Drinks

Cappuccino – 6.00, Latte- 6.00, Mugacino –8.00 , Short black – 6.00, Soy cappuccino – 8.00

Hazelnut hot chocolate – 8.00, Iced coffee – 8.00, Chai Latte – 8.00

Pot of tea – 6.00, Herbal tea - 6.00 ,- Roosibos , Peppermint- ask staff for more flavours as we have a vast variety

Soft drinks

Coke, Lemonade, Sunkist, Lift – 4.00

Lemon Lime and Bitters, Soda water, Tonic water – 5.00 , Juices -Apple juice, Orange juice - 4.00

Milkshakes

Chocolate, Strawberry, Caramel, Blue Heaven – 8.00, Iced Coffee and Iced Chocolate – 8.00

Alcoholic Coffees

1. Short black or long Black with a shot of brandy or Sambuca on the side – 15,00

2. Irish Coffee with Irish whiskey and Cream – 18.00

4. Café Escargot Mud with jack Daniels, Amaretto and cream – 18.00

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Breakfast

Breakfast stack - two poached eggs with hollandaise spinach and bacon on Italian herbed toast – 22.00

Big breakfast- Chorizo, two fried eggs, bacon, spinach, mushrooms, fried tomatoes with two slices of toast on the side – 25.00

Scrambled eggs- x 2 with toast – 15.00

Scrambled eggs x 3 with chorizo on toast – 18.00

Porridge- with dry fruit nuts, chia seeds and blue berries – 20.00

Vegetarian Breakfast- 2 fried eggs, spinach, mushrooms, fried tomatoes with two slices of toast on the side – 20.00

Pancake stack - with seasonal fruit ice-cream and cream or just with maple syrup – 20.00

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Vegetarian and Vegan and Gluten Free Dishes

Arancini (Rice balls) - three arancini with tasty cheese centre topped mediterranean sauce, choice seasonal vegetables or salad and chip - 35.00 (GF &Veg)

Gnocchi - burnt butter sage - In house made - pillows of loveliness made with ricotta cheese 35.00 (veg)

Quinoa ,Black bean and veggie medley spiced with cumin (vegan) 35.00

Salads or veggie bowl - $18.00

Paella - Vegan - for two people. $50.00 allow one hour.

Lentil soup – vegan - 20.00

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