Hillside Kitchen
Hillside is a tiny restaurant serving food and drinks that represent our region and country. Our menus are written based on what’s in season, what we are growing in our garden or what we have foraged. Our food is meatless/vegetarian/plant-focused or call it what you will, we just worry about making it delicious.
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241 Tinakori Road, Thorndon This venue is NOT wheelchair accessible |
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Events - August 1 - 31
Alluvial Gold
Brought together over their shared love of food and wine, Colin and Nalini Baruch embarked on an exciting journey 25 years ago setting up an olive grove in Martinborough with the sole purpose of one day tasting a New Zealand extra virgin olive oil. They were confident the perfect climate and alluvial plains of Martinborough could produce the same quality olive oils as its wines. Five years later they were proved right and Lot Eight was born. This year marks their 21st birthday and it's party time! Dry River Wines and Hillside Kitchen join Nalini and Colin to celebrate with a five-course beverage-matched celebratory dinner to salute this region's long standing culinary and horticultural relationship, and Lot Eight's own journey and milestones.
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Various times Aug 12, 6:30pm - Late |
Price: $195
Event enquiries: nalini@lot8.co.nz
*This event has shared seating
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Boujee Brunch
The lockdown days gone by had us often wondering what day it was, and sometimes found us eating breakfast for dinner and vice versa. And we realised it was totally delicious. Hillside swaps breakfast and dinner for a five-course breakfast tasting menu to start the day in style. In classic Hillside fashion, expect all the extra bits and pieces for a late morning tasting menu of brunch classics and reinventions for when toast just doesn't cut it.
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Price: $85
Event enquiries: info@hillsidekitchen.co.nz
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Hillside Forage
Join the Hillside crew for the famous Hillside Forage! On the Sunday before you dine at Hillside, spend one and a half hours foraging with the Hillside crew at a secret outdoor Wellington foraging location learning about, and picking the food, that grows wild around us. On your selected dining date, reunite with the Hillside crew at the restaurant for a four-course dinner where foraged food is put to delicious use.
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Price: $120
Event enquiries: info@hillsidekitchen.co.nz
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Dine - August 1 - 14
Clear as Cabbage
Have you noticed how the weather in Wellington is never quite what you expect it to be? You can wake up to mist covering the city like a blanket and a calm morning, before being blown down Lambton Quay, sheltering from hail and sea spray on the waterfront, and still be enjoying a beer in the sunshine by lunch. A bit like the ever-changing weather, Hillside has combined four seasons into one dish that'll keep you wondering, what exactly is happening?
Dish Description: Cabbage, Lot Eight olive oil, plum and foraged seasonal ingredients
Price: $25
*Booking required
Burger - August 12 - 31
Same Same but Hillside
Homegrown vegetable crudo with homegrown chillies, foraged coastal greens, and Awatoru Wildfood foraged seaweed in a housemade ‘milk’ bun, with chunky smoked seaweed salt fried potatoes
Garage Project Beer Match:
Pineapple Crush
Price: $22 / with Garage Project beer $35
*Please note, this venue requires one burger per person
Availability: Lunch
*Booking required