Casa Luna Gourmet Seasonal Menus

These sample menus from Casa Luna are designed to show you our style, and to tempt you to indulge in the pleasure of dinner in Casa Luna’s stunning glass-walled dining room. Specific menu items are not always available, and are dependant on seasonality and availability. We design a set menu for you, reflecting seasonal and local produce as much as possible. We are happy to cater for any dietary restrictions, provided we have prior advice.

Dinner with matched wines, accommodation, breakfast - from $425.00 to $475.00 for 2 persons

An example of a Summer menu at Casa Luna

Warm olive cheese balls – pimento-stuffed olives rolled in rich cheese pastry and baked, matched with

Negroni Fizz – the classic cocktail named after its inventor, Count Negroni - ours has red vermouth, gin and Campari topped with local sparkling wine

Milawa bread rolls with E.V. robusta extra virgin olive oil

Salad Caprese - sun-ripened tomatoes, creamy fresh mozzarella, basil and extra virgin olive oil dressing, served with Dal Zotto Arneis 2009

Mt Bellevue Welsh Black beef tagliata - char-grilled beef, rested in a Sicilian salmoriglio sauce of best oil, capers and oregano, shredded and tossed with fresh rocket pesto, served with saffron chilli pepperonata, paired beautifully with Politini 2005 Sangiovese

Almond nougat semifreddo with cherry tart and poached cherries, with Dal Zotto Elena – fortified pinot grigio

Locally roasted espresso coffee with local chocolate coated mint fondants

Three course dinner - $70.00 per person

A sample of Autumn offerings in Casa Luna's stunning dining room

Jumbo olives and fennel taralli

Milawa ciabatta with a dollop of Milawa Cheese goat curd in E.V. robusta extra virgin olive oil

Fresh pear salad with toasted walnuts, Balsamic onions, red wine vinegar-poached currants and shaved Pecorino cheese, sour cream dressing

Quail cacciatora - in the style of the hunter's wife, in a robust sauce of tomatoes, herbs and white wine, served on grilled garlic polenta, accompanied by a salad of bitter greens

Flourless chocolate espresso cake served with Casa Luna's own coffee icecream

Locally roasted espresso coffee with local chocolate-coated nougat

Italian banquet - served family style in the centre of your table - $60.00 per person

A menu suggestion for Winter

Grissini wrapped with proscuitto; home-cured olives

Scottiglia - an ancient Tuscan mixed meat stew with tomatoes and red wine, traditionally made with 7 meats, served on grilled bread. This dish recalls poorer times when peasants brought what they could afford to the host's house, who would cook all meats together for the group to enjoy. A salad of mixed leaves.

Milawa cheeses with fruit bread, dried muscatels, toffeed apple slices and local walnuts, or apple and amaretti biscuit pudding, topped with meringue

Locally roasted espresso coffee with chocolate dipped almond bread

Two course dinner - $55.00 per person

An idea for Spring

Milawa rolls with "bull's eye" - a drop of Balsamic in EV olive oil for dipping

Asparagus grilled and served with a sauce of chopped boiled lemon, green olives, parsley, capers and extra virgin olive oil

Salt bush lamb slow-cooked in white wine, finished with peas, egg and Parmesan

Locally roasted espresso coffee with sweet treats

Light Antipasto Dinner - for times when something lighter is required - $40.00 per person

Proscuitto and salami, bresaola and EV olives
grissini and Milawa ciabatta
Green tomato antipasto in herbed oil
Baby peppers stuffed with tuna
Zucchini flower frittata
Home-grown shallots caramelised in vermouth
Affogato – vanilla icecream “drowned” in a shot of espresso, drizzled with warm chocolate syrup

Breakfast included in cost of accommodation

Beechworth apple juice
Breakfast Knickerbocker Glory - seasonal fruits layered with vanilla flavoured ricotta and yoghurt cream and our own Swiss-style muesli
Hot-smoked salmon and cream cheese omelette with fresh dill
Sour dough toast with home-made jams and marmalade
Locally roasted coffee and Twinings tea

OR Roman-style Continental

Beechworth apple juice
Orange breakfast cake
Cornetto pastries
Fresh ciabatini or toast
Fruit jams
Mocca pot espresso coffee

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