Harvest Hotel
Five Stags Bar & Restaurant
6 Barry Ave,
Cromwell
Email: info@thegate.nz
NZ Freephone: 0800 104 451
Phone: + 64 3 445 1777
https://thegate.nz/five-stags/
First of all - apologies for the quality of the picture - it is from an older phone of mine which I had to gang-press back into action after the screen of my current phone died and is awaiting repairs!!
The Five Stags Bar and Restaurant are part of a wider Hotel Complex with 2 other food places competing for your $$! That said - we have been to the 5 Stags in Hanmer and figured we would get roughly the same quality and type of meals. This serving was advertised as :
Garlic and Herb Breads
Our house made garlic breads served with aioli
Interestingly enough it is indeed 'housemade' as opposed to bought bread - thus clearly it is a Vienna type loaf cut into slices. The Aioli was plain and very much unlike the one from Hanmer which had a tiny bit of Jalapeno crushed through it (and giving a hint of spice).It arrived in good time and was still warm to hot to touch. A plus was that it was buttered on both sides.
We had ordered 2 helpings to be divided between 5 people and even then we struggled between all of us to eat all of it. For a couple of folks it would have been 2.5 slices and probably to much as an entree. The sprinkling of green herbs made it nice and the Garlic flavor was just there - could have been a tiny bit more for my likening!
The presentation suffered from the usual bread board (where you could see the grooves from previous cuts) and the obligatory paper napkin underneath!
| Presentation | 2 out of 5 |
| Quantity | 2 out of 5 |
| Taste: | 4 out of 5 |
| Quality | 3 out of 5 |
| Overall score: | 11 (out of poss 20) |
