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The Bealey Avenue Speights Ale House is open every day from 7am for breakfast, and 11am onwards for lunch and dinner.

 

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Entrees

Entrees

Locally baked focaccia loaf, dripping with garlic butter or served plain both served with a herb and sweet chilli dip.

A trio of locally baked breads served with a trio of dips.

Thick cut oven toasted specialty breads, covered in garlic butter and cheddar cheese.

A selection of traditional ploughmans platter items. Pickles, smoked sausage, pickled onions, gherkins, raw onion, cold smoked salmon, cheddar cheese, boiled egg, ham, fresh tomato, served with fresh bread, butter and crackers.

Sometimes weird, sometimes wild, but always tasty.

A hearty local favourite. A thick, creamy seafood and fish soup, served with toasted Vienna.

Tender rings of lemon and garlic-marinated calamari, lightly crumbed and served with sweet chilli and aioli dipping sauces.

Oven baked, rubbed with a spicy cajun mix, served with satay aioli and our special extreme magma chilli sauce.

Wedges of soft camembert, crumbed and golden fried served with a spicy, sweet plum sauce.

Marinated lamb mince with lemon, coriander, cumin and hint of chilli. Served hot off
the grill with garlic pita, hummus and yoghurt dipping sauce.

Light Meals

Light Meals

A daily changing meal, straight from the menu of your flat, back in the varsity days.

Locally smoked chicken tossed with fresh tomatoes, feta cheese, kalamata olives, cucumber, red onion and dressed with an oregano infused olive oil.

Our take on the traditional ensemble that has embedded itself in the Kiwi psyche: cos lettuce, garlic croutons, soft boiled egg, anchovies and bacon and all bound with parmesan and our own Caesar dressing.

An ever changing curry, sometimes hot sometimes not, with steaming rice.

Slow braised lamb in a Poters, vegetable and mint gravy, don’t forget the peas! All served Pot Pie style with creamy mash, mini salad and fresh bread.

Served with cheddar, bacon, BBQ sauce and all sandwiched in a massive bun with lettuce, tomato & beetroot, served with golden fries.

Ever changing roast with all the trimmings, ask your wait staff for today’s cut.

Freshly steamed in a classic White Wine Cream served with a wedge of char grilled garlic bread, fries and aioli

Smoked chicken, bacon and mushroom bound with a garlic cream sauce, parmesan and fresh fettuccine, finished with an egg yolk

Mains

Mains

Thinly sliced lamb’s liver, pan-seared with bacon and mushroom, bound in
a rich Ale House gravy and served on mash.

Ale House specialty, crockpot style, simmered in thick Porters gravy served on creamy mashed spuds.

Slow roasted pork belly, served on creamy mash topped with rich gravy, apple sauce, watercress salad and shoe string crackling.

Locally made Porter sausage over a potato mash with onion jam, rich Ale House gravy, watercress salad and a side of bread to mop up the leavings.

Double roasted pork ribs in a rich BBQ sauce ... use ya fingers! Served with a satay slaw and fries.

Freshly caught fish fillets cooked according to the whim of the chef. Please check specials boards for today’s creation.

Southern blue cod, lightly fried in Speight’s beer batter, served with crispy fries, salad greens, fresh lemon, tartare sauce and ketchup, wrapped in the Otago Daily Times.

Tender rings of lemon and garlic marinated calamari, lightly crumbed and served with sweet chilli and aioli dipping sauces.

Bacon-wrapped breast, stuffed with a black cherry cream cheese, oven baked and rested on creamy cumin and kumara mash, drizzled with a red wine and cherry reduction.

Marinated chicken, sundried tomato, apricot and soft cheese, wrapped in golden filo pastry, served with a spiced apricot sauce with salad greens and rosemary & garlic roasted potatoes.

Tender chicken thighs marinated in our own Distinction Ale and Canterbury Honey Glaze, oven-baked served with salad and your choice of creamy potato mash, fries or kumara mash.

King couscous with sauteed seasonal vegetables, falafel, garlic pita and yoghurt sauce

$24.50

Sourced from a local free range farm, crusted in a Brazil nut and pork crackling dust, oven-baked resting on a chunky Tuscan roast vegetable salad and Speight’s Apple Cider jus.

Steak

Steak

Our take on the classic “Beef Wellington”, 180gm of Angus Eye Fillet, wrapped in homemade pate, puff pastry. Baked to your liking resting on a bacon and onion potato hash. Served with your choice of sauce.

250grm prime aged black Angus Ribeye, char-grilled to your liking served on prawn tail and bacon risotto and toped with prawn cigars, crumbed oyster and jus rosti.

(NB - Oysters subject to availability)

The following steaks are chargrilled, served with your choice of sauce and potato dish.

A massive 400 gm aged ribeye on the bone.

Old dark marinated prime cut of sirloin.

250 grm Prime Aged Black Angus Ribeye.

Creamy garlic aioli
Szechuan pepper sauce
Creamy mushroom
Garlic butter
House gravy
Hollandaise
Jus Rosti

Creamy mash
Fries
Cumin kumara mash

Desserts

Desserts

Classic slow braised South Island apples topped with a crispy golden crumble and served with vanilla ice cream and anglaise.

Deep-pan cheesecake. Ask your wait staff for today’s flavours.

A kiwi classic anywhere you go! Dressed with kiwifruit coulis, cream, and vanilla ice cream.

Trio of ‘hand made’ ice creams served on vanilla anglaise, with a double chocolate biscuit and fruit coulis.

Pure decadence!! A warm mud cake with chocolate sauce and chocolate ice-cream.

Kids

Kids

Fruit, cheese segment, raisins, carrot sticks, celery sticks, shaved ham and a muesli bar.

Juicy grilled chicken, served with gravy, mash, vege and salad greens.

Lightly battered blue cod fillet, served with crisp golden fries, house bread and salad greens.

Served with mashed potatoes, salad greens and vegetables.

150gm rump steak; BBQ’d and served with mash, vegetables and gravy.

Tasty ground beef patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, aioli and tomato sauce, served on fries.

Kids' Menu available to all children aged 10 or under.

Extras

Extras