Tabou Bar & Bistro

DAYS OF BUSINESS

Tue - Fri:	11:00 to 23:00
Sat - Sun:	15:00 to 23:00

For a special night out, drinks after work, business lunch or a family get together, we offer a relaxed and comfortable restaurant and bar with delicious food and lovely service. Tabou is a Metro Top 50 restaurant '07, '08, '09 and your host, Rebecca Jones is Metro readers choice Restaurant Personality of the year.

Latest User Reviews

"excellent service, food and surroundings"

"Very enjoyable evening had by all. Great food & service." more reviews

Chef	Ben Convery
Price Guide	Entrée $14 - $19, Main $28 - $34, Dessert $12
Payment Options	Cash, Amex, Visa, Mastercard, Diners, Eftpos
Features	Dress smart casual, Licensed, Outside dining area, Street parking, Wheelchair access
Ambience	Contemporary, Relaxed, Romantic, Sophisticated, Suitable for business
Styles	Cocktail, Sit down
Suitable For	Birthday/Anniversary, Business lunch/dinner, Christmas party

Restaurant areas and private dining

Area name	Capacity seated	Capacity standing
Entire Restaurant	34	60

Dinner

Lunch

Dessert

Wine List

Entrée

French onion soup, grilled emmental

14.00

Pigs head terrine, sauce gribiche, sourdough toast

16.00

Tomato tarte tatin, green olives, goat's cheese, micro celery

18.00

Shrimp & avocado cocktail, Mary Rose sauce

16.00

Sauteed chicken livers, grapes, Marsala, toasted brioche

16.00

Citrus cured salmon, fennel & orange salad, lemon sour cream

18.00

Main

Snapper, perla potatoes, asparagus, lemon beurre blanc

32.00

Olive crusted yellow fin tuna, globe artichokes, pepperonata

32.00

Chicken fricassee, mushrooms, leeks, truffle mash

28.00

Lamb rack, swede fondant, spinach, red wine shallots

30.00

Scotch fillet, dauphinoise potatoes, chive & horseradish butter

32.00

Twice cooked duck, watercress risotto, balsamic figs

34.00

Sides

Green beans, nut brown butter, toasted almonds

8.00

Iceberg & roquette salad, oil & cream vinaigrette

7.00

French fries, smoked tomato sauce

6.00

Baby Jersey Bennie potatoes, butter, parsley

8.00

All efforts have been made by www.menulog.co.nz to ensure the accuracy of this restaurant's menus at the time of publishing. However, we cannot guarantee that the menu or prices will be valid at the time of your visit.

All prices are in New Zealand Dollars (NZD$) unless otherwise specified.

This menu was last updated on 9/12/09.

User rating

(4 reviews)

Overall		8.3
Food		8.5
Ambience		8.5
Service		8.8
Value		7.5

Previous user experiences

Overall 8.5 - Food 9, Ambience 9, Value 7, Service 9

excellent service, food and surroundings (June, 2008)

Overall 9 - Food 9, Ambience 9, Value 9, Service 9

Very enjoyable evening had by all. Great food & service. (March, 2008)

Overall 8.8 - Food 10, Ambience 8, Value 8, Service 9

It is difficult to rate a restaurant on Valentines Day evening as it is so busy. We thought the food was superb! We would like to return on a quieter evening. (February, 2008)

Overall 7 - Food 6, Ambience 8, Value 6, Service 8

It was a nice restaurant. The experience was pleasureable. The objective was to have escargot. After the meal, I enquired about the escargot and was informed that the escargot was imported as a canned product in brine. To make it look authentic, the shells had to be sourced and then the snails sauteed in garlic and butter and put back into the shells. I was a quite disappointed that the escargot was a canned product and not authentic. (April, 2007)

"...Which Tabou has plenty of, both in the feel and in the food stakes. It's traditional, which means plain food, with the tweaks coming in the accompaniments, well cooked and even..."

Ewan McDonald, The New Zealand Herald - March 2009

"The room is warm and inviting, open to the street and often lively...the thing they know makes a bistro a place to love...It’s very fine."

Simon Wilson, Metro Live Magazine - January 2008

"The well-considered wine list is strong on French and French-style wines like the buoyant Te Mata Woodthorpe Gamay Noir, with some nice opportunities to compare the French and Kiwi versions of varietals..."

Toni Mason, Cuisine Magazine - March 2007

"With just 34 seats inside, the décor is elegant, subdued and almost entirely lacking in any French affectations. The menu immediately makes it clear, however, that this is a French restaurant specialising in classic bistro fare such as blanquette de veau and sirloin steak with lyonnaise potatoes."

Lauren Quaintance, Metro Live - February 2007

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