Food!
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Tequeños / Vegan Tequeños
Deep fried wonton pastry fingers filled with mozzarella, haloumi & jalapeños OR vegan cheese & jalapeños | 14
Cauliflower nuggets
Deep fried cauliflower bites with avocado cream (vegan, contains nuts) | 9
Salchipapas / Vegan Salchipapas
Peruvian loaded fries with chorizo, kabana, olive mayo, mustard, tomato sauce and garlic mayo (df) | 15
Vegan version available with vegan sausage (contains nuts)
Saucy Wench Dumplings
Pork & wombok OR shiitake & garlic chives served with garlic & eschalot vinaigrette | 14
Papas Nativas
Deep fried purple congo & dutch cream potatoes with uchucuta cream and amarillo chilli mayonnaise (vegan) | 14
Pig’s Head Croquettes
With spiced-rum macerated apples, blue cheese sauce and gremolata | 13
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Morcilla burger
Blood sausage and beef pattie, mustard greens, tomato, fontina cheese, house-made dill pickles, mustard and burnt tomato & vegemite mayo | 18
The Rooben
House-made kangaroo pastrami, berry-pickled cabbage, raclette cheese, dill pickles, mustard & burnt garlic russian dressing on rye | 17
Mole cauliflower burrito
Grilled cauliflower in mole sauce, sliced avo, refried beans, black rice and salsa criolla in a flour tortilla (vegan) | 16
Tongue tacos
3 soft corn tortillas with beef tongue, salsa verde, queso fresco, and coriander & onion salsa (gf) | 17
Mushroom and corn truffle tacos
3 soft corn tortillas with panca marinated mushrooms, Peruvian corn, corn truffle sauce, queso fresco, guacamole, and coriander & onion salsa
(gf, vegan option with house made cashew queso fresco) | 16
Fat Udon
Udon noodles with miso broth, watermelon radish, and sesame-sautéed broccoli sprouts and pea tendrils
Topped with malbec & hibiscus teriyaki chicken thigh OR eggplant (vegan) | 17
Mongrel Bibimbap
Black rice, skirt steak tartare, raw egg, cucumber & kimchi in a hot stone bowl
Mix together as soon as served (gf) | 18
Ramen Thursday
Mongrel’s non-traditional ramen. Influenced by the flavours of Nikkei cuisine
(Peruvian-Japanese fusion). Available Thursdays from lunch until sold out.
Minuta ramen
A dank beef broth ramen based on the classic Peruvian soup ‘sopa a la minuta’. Panca & beef broth, roasted anticucho brisket, baby corn, nori, sesame kale, burnt garlic oil, half egg | 16
Vegan ramen
Tomato based tonkotsu-style ramen with sesame kale, anticucho tofu, burnt tomato, pickled shiitake, nori & burnt garlic oil | 16
Ceviche
Friday, Saturday & Sunday until sold out
Mongrel ceviche
The Mongrel take on this classic Peruvian seafood dish. Fresh goldband snapper cured in yellow chilli tiger’s milk with red onion, coriander, toasted chulpi corn & burnt sweet potato (gf, df) | 22
Dessert
House-made brownie with boozy ganache (contains nuts)