Last Post Cafe, Methven, New Zealand

Posted by kogepanman in , , , on Monday, June 29, 2009

Dinner at the Last Post Cafe

After a long and treacherous day on the slopes and roads of Mount Hutt, we retired to our lodge to recuperate and attempt to recover from our near death experience... As it was our last night at Methven (the Jindabyne equivalent of Mount Hutt ski resort), we decided to have dinner at the best restaurant in town (as suggested by the lodge owners). Walking to the restaurant, we saw that milling outside were none other than pretty much all the ski resort staff from Mount Hutt! It seems that this is the joint that the crew retire to after a tough day on the slopes as well! We recognised our snow chain fitters who welcomed us in and we got a table pretty easily. One side of the restaurant is actually a bar type setting and there were more ski resort crew hanging over there.



Looking at the menu, it seemed that this restaurant was very food concious with meals prepared gluten free, vegetarian, aqua-rarian and using only free range chooks and eggs. For starter we ordered the spiced corn bread - we had to get 2 servings for the 4 of us as it was quite small. In hindsight, 1 serving would have been enuf, as the bread was dry and bland, although it did have a nice bit of heat and good corn flavour.


Warmed spicy cornbread with Galic aioli
$11.50 NZD

For mains, two of us got the ribs, and the others got the chicken and another the steak. I tried a bit of all the mains and have to say that there was no standout between the mains, but each had a very nice flavour to it.


Fillet steak with mash
~$36.50 NZD

The steak was nicely cooked and served well and was a nice hearty meal for a cold winters night. Only criticism- which is probably applicable to all the dishes- was that it was a tad bland.

A nice touch to the meal was a serving of complimentary steamed vegetables with a sesame dressing.

Complimentary vegetables :)

Smokey BBQ Pork Ribs with thick cut steak fries
$25.50 NZD

The ribs were a very generous serving and had a delicious smoky sauce to it and the fries were nice and crunchy. It also came with a side salad which helped to cleanse the pallet in between mouthfuls of juicy ribs. Only criticism is that the ribs were not fall-off-the-bone like you would get at Hurricanes, but it was fairly easy to eat them with fingers or knife and fork.

Rangitikei Free Range Chicken Breast stuffed with salami, cumin cheese & mustard,
served with a sundried tomato & saffrom polenta cake & a spiced apricot sauce
$28.50 NZD

The chicken, apart from being a bit bland (especially the polenta cake) was very nicely cooked and not dry. The sauce was nice and tangy and the cheese inside the chicken giving it the majority of the flavour.

We also ordered a nice Chardonnay which topped off the evening's meal. It was light and had a very crisp taste.

Chardonnay $65 NZD

The Last Post Cafe

116 Main Street
Methven
New Zealand
Phone +64 3 302 8259

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