Main Menu

• Piccolo

  If you have any dietary requirement, please inform your waiter before ordering

• Chargrilled sardines

  • per piece 10.00

  w feta, white raisins & pinenuts on toasted sourdough

• Hand crafted stracciatella & aubergine baked over coals (V)

  • 21.00

  w grilled piadina

• Wood fired, wild caught king prawns

  • per piece 12.50

  w pancetta & gremolata piccante

• Insalata of shaved broad squid & white beans

  • 23.00

  w parsley & lemon

• Organic cured meats contadino style

  • 42.00

  w warm focaccia & Pene's pickle

• Polpette

  Our hand crafted meatballs

• Wild red deer meatballs

  • 18.50

  w portobello mushroom & parsnip crema

• Mamma D’s “East Coast”

  • 18.50

  beef meatballs w smoked melanzane

• “Dodici ore”

  • 18.50

  slow cooked lamb meatballs w preserved lemon, rosemary & spiced gravy

• Polpette vegetariane (V)

  • 17.00

  w summer vegetables & cow's ricotta

• Karitane crayfish meatballs

  • 32.00

  w sweet onion puree, smoked butter & salsa verde

• Primi

  We pride ourselves in making handmade pasta daily & cooked to order

• Spaghettoni vongole & bottarga

  • 33.00

  w little neck clams, roasted peppers & chilli

• Agnolotti of gurnard & scampi

  • per piece 15.00

  w lemon butter

• Saffron & potato tortellini (V)

  • 23.00

  w goats curd, brown butter, almonds & fig confit

• House turned rigatoni

  • 34.00

  w pork & fennel salsiccia, brasied tomato sauce & pecorino

• Buttered maltagliati

  • 34.00

  w duck & porcini ragu, buttercup & pickled black walnuts

• Secondi

• Pan seared line-caught fish

  • 43.00

  w potato scaglie, celriac, Pernod butter & pinenuts

• Hawke’s Bay lamb

  • 44.00

  w cauliflower gratinato, anchovy, black olive crumb & watercress

• Smoked & glazed venison short ribs

  • 39.00

  w white polenta

• Wood fired bistecca – Wood fired barbecued butcher’s cut (POA)

  Served w confit mushrooms, creamed potato, rocket, Parmigiano Reggiano & Giusti balsamic

• Wood fired bistecca – Flat iron steak tagliata

  • 220g 39.00

  Served w confit mushrooms, creamed potato, rocket, Parmigiano Reggiano & Giusti balsamic

• Wood fired bistecca – Handpicked South Island grass fed scotch fillet

  • 300g 49.00

  Served w confit mushrooms, creamed potato, rocket, Parmigiano Reggiano & Giusti balsamic

• Contorni

• Spaghetti cacio & pepe (V)

  • 19.00

• Cavatelli alla ricotta w marinara sauce & pesto (V)

  • 19.00

• Green vegetables del giorno (V)

  • 12.50

• Eggplant parmigiana (V)

  • 21.00

• Polenta (V)

  • 11.00

• Baduzzi bitter leaves salad (V)

  • 13.00

• Desserts

• Tiramisu w Baileys & amaretto

  • 17.50

• Ricotta cannoli w citrus confit & bitter chocolate

  • per piece 11.50

• Baduzzi cestino

  • 11.00

  changes daily

• Torta caprese w “Miann” chocolate, raspberry sorbet & coconut espuma

  • 18

• Formaggio, cheese board of today’s three cheeses inspired by Italy

  • 39.50