Deluxe dining and cuisine
Focus | Rotherhams of Riccarton
Rotherhams of Riccarton offers the complete fine-dining package — beautiful cuisine and wine combined with excellent service in a relaxed intimate atmosphere.
Cindy and Martin Weiss, the successful partnership leading the way at Rotherhams of Riccarton
new-season garlic soup with profiteroles filled with camembert and watercress mousse.
The award-winning restaurant was formed in 2000 by Martin and Cindy Weiss. Martin is a Swiss-trained fine-dining chef who has been cooking in a wide range of restaurants in Europe and New Zealand for 28 years, while Cindy works as the restaurant’s friendly and professional maitre d.
Martin Weiss says the restaurant is renowned for its dessert menu, which includes the Rotherhams surprise coupe. Chocolate is a feature of the menu, with dishes including white and dark chocolate truffles and a chocolate trio — chocolate and star anise mousse cake, dark chocolate and orange marquise in a dark chocolate cone, and chocolate and Kahlua fondue with fruits. There is also sticky date and ginger pudding, apricot and vanilla bean cheesecake and frozen raspberry and white chocolate parfait to tempt the tastebuds.
Located in Rotherham Street opposite Riccarton Mall, the restaurant offers classic European and New Zealand cuisine. Every dish is cooked to perfection and exquisitely presented.
Rotherhams of Riccarton has a huge wine list to choose from, with more than 500 listings from Europe, Australia and New Zealand. They also have wine by the glass options.
The restaurant’s a la carte menu covers a variety of dishes, including grilled cervena medallions, pancetta-wrapped pork fillet, chargrilled lemonscented chicken breast, gratinated tomato coulis and aged-cheddar potato gnocchi. However, Rotherhams of Riccarton is best known for its many signature dishes, which include Martin’s seafood selection and oysters prepared in 12 different ways. Beef fillet is another specialty and is presented wrapped in bacon, topped with Kikorangi blue cheese and kumara shavings, golden couscous, green French beans and a pink and green peppercorn glaze.
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Many discerning customers choose the lamb duo, which involves lamb cutlets coated with a mustard and herb crust, green pea flan, roasted cocktail onions and mint pesto, together with a braised lamb shank, crushed pumpkin and kumara, crispy parsnip chips and lamb sauce. We are proud of our long standing relationship with Rotherhams of Riccarton as a supplier of fine wines. GRAND TERROIR CAREFUL CRAFTSMANSHIP LOW YIELD A WINE PRODUCER OF DISTINCTION MARLBOROUGH - NEW ZEALAND
Rotherhams of Riccarton always has a vegetarian entrée on its menu, as well as a vegetable soup and vegetarian main. A favourite has recently returned to the menu — creamy
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Cooking is my love — I have a huge passion for food and wine Martin Weiss chef and co-owner, Rotherhams of Riccarton
Award-winning restaurant Rotherhams of Riccarton has won numerous awards during the past 10 years, receiving the Outstanding Canterbury Restaurant Award and the Outstanding Canterbury Customer Service Award at the Canterbury Hospitality Awards last year, in which Martin Weiss was also named the Outstanding Canterbury Chef. “We probably have more awards than anybody else in Christchurch, but it’s not about the awards,” Weiss says. “We’ve got really good food — people come in and they’re blown away. Our customers say we stand out with our service, quality and food. We’re owner-operators, with my wife out the front and me in the kitchen. We like to talk to our customers about the food and the wine. It’s a lot different than when you go into a restaurant with a manager.”
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Rewards You Deserve Congratulations on 10 Years of Fine Dining
Congratulations to Martin and Cindy on 10 years of excellence
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