Breakfast at Astelia Lodge

Breakfast at The Lodge

We believe you should start your day with a healthy, freshly prepared breakfast, from fresh fruit salads with organic yoghurts and freshly baked bread, to eggs benedict or roasted mushrooms with lemon crème fraiche. Or maybe something simple like croissants with home made preserves. The choice is yours, so enjoy your breakfast at leisure and have as little or as much as you want!

Part of our vision for Astelia Lodge is to grow much of our own food so that we can offer guests a fresh 'taste' of New Zealand. What we do not produce ourselves, we endeavour to source locally. And if it's meat and eggs or dairy, we try to buy organic or at least free range. Like you probably do, we want to know where our animal products come from and what sort of lives they have.

 

Sample Breakfast Menu

The menu includes oat pancakes served with seasonal fruits and real maple syrup. Guests can also enjoy a continental breakfast featuring cereals, fresh fruit, croissants, and homemade preserves. For a heartier option, bacon and eggs are available, prepared any way you like.

Our choice of breakfast varies from time to time. If you have any allergies or particular requests please do mention them well in advance.

 

Vegetarian Food

At the Lodge, we believe food is food! And so vegetarian food is as much part of the menu as is meat and fish. It's not an 'option' or an 'alternative' choice. It's what we do, with as much care and attention to taste and presentation as anything else we might provide for you. A meat-free dish is simply another dish that may appeal to you, and a lot of our guests frequently choose a vegetarian breakfast simply because it looks and tastes good! We've also recently added some choices for Vegans.

If you are a vegetarian or vegan, here are some things you like might like to know about the way we prepare food.

All vegetarian meals are prepared with separate boards, knives and implements, so you can be sure the same spatula used to fry bacon hasn't been used to turn your oatcakes!

For all our breakfast meals, we try to buy organic if we can, or at least free range. Seasonally, many of the vegetables and fruits are from our own garden, and while not certified as organic, they are grown with a minimum of fuss and chemical intervention.

 

Our Policy on Waste – It's a Circle of Life Thing!

Very little is wasted at the Lodge.

Glass, plastics, and so on, are all recycled.

Very little food is thrown away. Vegetable peelings and any uneaten fruit is fed to the donkey and alpacas, or if not suitable it goes on the two-stage compost facility and ends up back on the vegetable patch which provides much of our produce for the year.