Belgian Beer Café

Food Menu

The menus feature traditional Belgian Bistro favourites like "Moules-frites", mussels served with chips, and "Waterzooi a la Ghentoise", a typical chicken stew. Many of the dishes are prepared with beer as a main ingredient.

Entrées

Home-made Duck Pâté $9.90
Served with pickled vegetables & gherkins.

Sydney Rock Oysters
Served natural with a mignonette sauce
¼Doz $12.50 ½Doz $20.50 Doz $29.50
Served Kilpatrick
¼Doz $12.50 ½Doz $20.50 Doz $29.50
Served Bloody Mary
¼Doz $12.50½Doz $20.50 Doz $29.50

BBC Mussel and Clam Chowder
Cup 150mls $6.50
Bowl 400mls $12.50

Dip Plate $12.50
Baba ganoush, tzatsiki, taramasalata,
olives served with lavosh bread and crackers.

Salt and Chilli South Australian Squid $ 9.90
Served with a lime aoili.

Mussel A l'Escargot $ 9.90
Half-shell mussels, grilled with garlic butter.

Vegetarian Monk's Tart $6.50
An old recipe from the Middle Ages with leek fondu, button mushrooms, eggs and spices, all cooked with Leffe Blonde and served with tomato chutney.

Garlic & Chilli Tiger Prawns $10.50
Served with a garlic butter sauce.

Spanish Serrano Air Dried Ham $8.00
Served with pickled vegetables.
(Great to nibble with beer).

Toast Cannibal (Served Raw) $9.90
Belgian style steak tartare served on toast.

Pork Belly Bites $9.90
Served with a dipping sauce.

Roasted Lamb & Oregano Meatballs $12.50
Cooked with a rustic tomato & basil sauce.

Cheeseballs with Tomato Concasse $8.00
(Suitable for vegetarians).

Belgian Cocktail Sausages $9.90
Served with spicy Americaine sauce.

Vintage Cheddar $9.90
Served with crackers and lavosh.

Grilled Toast $1.50

Fresh Bread $2.00

Garlic Bread $3.50

Herb Bread $3.50

Bowl of Chips and Mayonnaise $7.20

Mixed Garden Salad $7.20

Cream Mashed Potato $7.20

Belgian Stoemp $7.20

Steamed Vegetables
with a chive and garlic butter $7.20

Main Courses

Home made Potato and Semolina Gnocchi $22.90
Served with roasted butternut pumpkin, green peas and Pesto.

Belgian Style Sausages $24.50
Veal, pork & pistachio sausages, served
with mashed potato & sauerkraut.

Twice-Baked Crispy Pork Belly $28.50
Served with Belgian stoemp,
sauerkraut & apple sauce.

Chargrilled Beef Rib Eye
(350 Grams) $33.50
Served with roasted rosemary & garlic
potatoes with a choice of jus,
green peppercorn or Béarnaise Sauce.

Filet Americain (Served Raw) $27.50
Traditional Belgian steak tartare,
served with chips & salad.

Heritage Herb & Pork Schnitzel $25.50
Served with mashed potato & a mesclun salad.

Steak-Frites & Salad
(300 Grams) $28.50
Porterhouse steak with chips & salad,
served with a choice of jus, green peppercorn or Béarnaise Sauce.

Belgian Chicken & Mushroom Vol au Vent $27.50
Traditional chicken & mushroom casserole,
slightly creamy, served in puff pastry case.

Fresh Fish of the Day Market Price
(Please check specials board).

Cooking With Beer

Chargrilled Kangaroo Loin $28.50
Served with crispy chat potatoes, buttered broccolini and a Gulden Draak & juniper berry sauce.

Flemish Beef Stew Cooked in Beer $26.50
An original recipe since the Middle Ages, made with Stella Artois, Dijon mustard & cranberry jelly served with chips or boiled potatoes.

Roasted Lamb & Oregano Meatballs $24.50
Cooked with a rustic Leffe Dark, tomato & basil sauce.

Mussels (Our Speciality)

Served with chips and mayonnaise, in special mussel pots

Hint: Hint: Keep the shell from the first mussel you eat and use this as your pincher for the rest of the dish. So please... NO KNIVES AND FORKS

Provençale $28.50 Cooked with tomatoes, capsicum, herbs & garlic.	Tintin au Congo $28.50 Cooked with coconut cream, lemongrass & chilli.	Mariniere $28.50 Cooked with vegetables in a tasty broth.
Poulette $28.50 Cooked with white wine, bacon, vegetables & a touch of cream.	White Wine $28.50 Cooked with vegetables & white wine.	Siam $28.50 Cooked with tom yum sauce, Thai basil & finished with coconut cream.
Blue Cheese $28.50 Cooked with vegetables, blue cheese & lemon juice.	Mushrooms $28.50 Cooked with mushrooms & vegetables in a light creamy basil broth	A l'Escargot $27.50 Half-shell mussels, grilled with garlic butter.

Heritage Specials

Each meal served with a Stella Artois, Hoegaarden or a glass of house wine.

Belgian Style Sausages $28.50
Served with mashed potato & sauerkraut.

Steak-Frite & Salad (300 Grams) $32.50
Porterhouse steak with chips & salad, served with your choice of jus or Café de Paris butter.

Any Mussel Pot $32.50
Served with chips, mayonnaise.

Desserts

If you would like to bring your own cake, there is a $1.50 charge per person.

Warm Rich Belgian Chocolate Fondant $13.50 Traditional Belgian cake served with créme anglaise and vanilla bean ice-cream.	Belgian Waffle $13.50 Served with "Callebaut" warm chocolate sauce, mixed berry coulis and vanilla bean ice-cream.	Tarte Tatin $13.50 Traditional warm apple tart, served with Vanilla bean ice-cream.
Dame Blanche $13.50 Three scoops of Vanilla beans ice cream, hot Belgian chocolate sauce, whipped cream and wafer.	Belgian Chocolate Mousse $13.50 Need we say more?...	Seasonal Fresh Fruit Salad $13.50 Tossed with a fresh mint syrup, served with lemon curd and vanilla bean ice-cream.
	Cheese Platter $18.50 Selection of fine Australian cheeses, fresh fruit & crackers.	Affogato $13.50 With the liquor of your choice. (Galliano, Amaretto, Frangelico or Tia Maria)

Heritage

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