Our 2025 Canapé Glossary

Our kitchen team loves to flex their creative muscles to create a canapé menu that not only tastes amazing, but also isn’t like anything you’ve have had before. We make a point to use locally sourced, seasonal ingredients that won’t be found on your average supermarket shelf. When you get to work with these amazing ingredients & canapés on a daily basis, it can be easy to take for granted that our clients will also immediately recognise everything that’s included in our menu.

To help bridge the gap & hopefully lead you to the discovery of your new favourite dish, we’ve put together the following glossary of our 2025 Canapé menu:

• Beach Succulent

  • A local Australian plant grown on our beach shores are plump, juicy with a slight salty flavour – Used as a garnish

• Berbere Ketchup

  • A traditional Ethiopian spice blend with a hint of heat

• Black Lava Salt

  • Flaky sea salt blended with charcoal

• Bonito

  • A tuna-like fish species found locally in Australian waters.

• Cashew Sour Cream

  • A vegan substitute to standard sour cream, made using blended cashews

• Celeriac Remoulade

  • Shredded Celeriac (a root vegetable, closely related to celery, pasley & parsnips) mixed with remoulade (A tart, lemony traditional french sauce made up of ingredients such as capers, fresh herbs, pickles & sometimes anchovies or horseradish).

• Crudo

  • The Italian word meaning ‘raw’, refers to dishes featuring fresh, uncooked ingredients – typically meat or seafood.

• Harissa

  • A spiced chilli paste, often used with slow-roasted lamb & vegetables

• Kombu Dust

  • First-grade, dried kelp (seaweed)

• Miso Apple

  • Miso (salty, tangy, umami flavour) mixed with sweet apple

• Mojo Pork

  • Smoked pork marinated in a flavourful, citrus-garlic-herb marinade.

• Monterey Jack

  • A semi-hard cheese originating from the Monterey area of California. Known for its milk, buttery flavour & excellent melting qualities.

• Northern Lamb

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• ‘NY Style’ Brisket

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• Saltbush

  • An Australian native shrub that can be used as a salt-substitute / type of seasoning

• Secret Smoky Sauce

  • It is actually a secret (Sorry!)

• Spätzle

  • A Central European egg pasta

• Tapioca Crisp

  • Tapioca pearls, a starch made from cassava root, cooked & then dried to form a crispy chip

• Tarragon Emulsion

  • A sauce that combines tarragon with oil & other, usually opposing ingredients such as egg yolks

• Tataki

  • A Japanese cooking technique where meat or fish is briefly seared on the outside, leaving the inside raw or rare.

• Umami Mayo

  • A rich, creamy mayonnaise with a deep, savoury flavour

• Veracruz Sauce

  • A tomato-based Mexican sauce originating from the city of Veracruz, using ingredients like olives, capers, garlic & chillis

• White Soy

  • A lighter, sweeter sauce compared to traditional dark soy sauce

• Yuzu Aioli

  • An Asian sour citrus fruit, similar to grapefruit