Menu

• Brunch & Lunch

  • Please note: menu may alter slightly due to seasonal availability.
    
  • BREAKFAST (Served from 9am-12pm)
  • Toasted baguette or croissant
    Served with butter and jam
    $3
  • Petit Dejeuner
    Croissant or toasted baguette with jam and butter, a glass of orange juice, and a regular tea or coffee of your choice
    $9.50
  • French Toast
    With Fresh fruit, yoghurt and maple syrup
    Or with bacon and maple syrup $16
  • Tartine
    Toasted bread with spinach, caramalised onion, free range poached eggs, hollandaise sauce and salad $16
    Extra smoked salmon or bacon $3 each
  • Omelette
    Free range egg omelette served with salad and french fries $14
    Add tomato, bacon, mushroon, cheese, or any combination of them $17
  • Free Range eggs cooked your way on toasted bread $13
  • *Add: Harrington's Kransky sausage or bacon $3 each
  • *Add: Tomato, Mushrooms, hash browns or baked beans $2 each
  • Complete breakfast $22.50
  • BRUNCH & LUNCH (Served from 9am-2pm)
  • Gratinée Lyonnaise
    Traditional French Onion soup with gruyere on toast
    $13
  • Soup du jardin $9.50
  • Languestine Bisque $23
  • Duck liver parfait
    served with crostini, cornichon and walnut salad
    $17
    
  • Aumoniere Bretone de Chevre
    French goats cheese and tomato wrapped in a Brittany galette (v)
    $16
  • Chef's homemade salmon gravalax
    on blinis with a salad of olives, capers and confites tomatoes
    $17
  • Sirloin steak and chips
    with salad and a Bearnaise sauce
    $23
  • Côte de boeuf. 600g beef rib eye on the bone. With salad, chips, and a béarnaise sauce (gf) $39
  • Fish of the day
    with steamed vegetables and beurre blanc sauce $27
    $23
    
  • Quiche Lorraine or Vegetarian quiche
    served with a side salad 
    $12
  • Free range eggs cooked your way on toasted bread $13
    Add salmon, Harrington's Kransky sausage or bacon $3 each
    Add tomato, mushroom, hash brown or baked beans $2 each
    
  • Complete breakfast of eggs, bread, bacon, sausage, tomato, mushrooms, hash brown and baked beans $22.50

  Evening Menu - Les Entrées /Starters

  • • Please note: menu may alter slightly due to seasonal availability.

     

  • Sélection de pains rustiques
    Bread basket with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and butter (v) $8.00
  • Soupe du jardin
    Vegetarian Soup of the day (v, gf) $9.50
  • Gratinée Lyonnaise
    Traditional French Onion soup with gruyere on toast $13
  • Aumoniere Bretone de Chevre
    French goats cheese and tomato wrapped in a Brittany galette with poached fig and an apple salad (v) $16
  • Bisque de langoustine maison servis avec gruyere saffron rouille et croutes
    Langoustine bisque served with gruyere cheese, rouilee and crostini $23
  • Fricassée d’escargots et pancetta au porto, salade de cresson salade de cresson
    Fricassée of snails and pancetta served with watercress and port wine sauce $16
  • Saumon a l anette gravalax, olive capers et tomate confit
    Chef's own salmon gravalax on blinis with a salad of olives, capers and confite tomatoes $19
  • Parfait de fois de canard maison servis avec cornichon et salade de noix

  Duck liver parfait served with crostini, cornichon and walnut salad $17

  • Planchette de Jambon de Bayonne servis avec olives et pistaches
  • Jambon de Bayonne served with olives and pistachio nuts $19

  Evening Menu - Mains

  • Tarte feuilletée d'aubergine, tomate confite, Oignons caramelisés, sauce créole
    Aubergine, brie, caramelised onion and tomato tart, served with a spicy tomato sauce and a side salad (v)
    $22
  • Petit camembert roti au truffle de perigord, servi avec une salade de noix et croutes
    Roasted French Camembert cheese stuffed with Perigord truffles and served with a walnut salad and crostini (v)
    $26
  • Poisson du jour, légumes à l'anglaise, beurre blanc
    Fish of the day, served with steamed vegetables and beurre blanc sauce (gf)
    $27
  • Chateaubriand, cresson, dauphinoise, fève, sauce béarnaise
    Beef fillet with watercress, dauphinois potato and béarnaise sauce (gf)
    $36
  • Côte de boeuf, fagot d'haricots verts, tomate provencale, frites et sauce béarnaise
    500g beef rib eye on the bone. Served with provencale tomato, French beans wrapped with bacon, salad, French fries, and a béarnaise sauce
    $47
  • Poulet jaune aux pruneaux d Armagnac, riz savage, sauce forestiere
    Free range corn fed chicken stuffed with armagnac prunes and served with wild rice and mushroom sauce
    $30
  • Canard à l'orange 2 facons (cuisse confit et magret roti) servis avec de pommes de terr roties et haricots vert
    Orange duck cooked two ways (leg confit and breast roast) and served with roast potato and green beans (gf)
    $34
  • Cassoulet a ma facon
    White bean casserole with duck leg confit, Toulouse sausage, porketta rolled with herbes de Provence
    $38
    
  • Poitrine de porc poche au the de feijoa, puis rotie, servis avec citrouille et patates douces roties, et une sauce a la moutarde a l'anciene
    Feijoa infused pork belly, roast kumara and pumpkin, with homemade quince chutney and mustard sauce
    $34
    

  • Les Legumes / Side Vegetables

    • Gratin dauphinois
      $8
    • Ratatouille de la maison
      $7
    • Légumes à l’anglaise
      Steamed seasonal vegetables
      $7
    • Salade verte
      Side salad
      $6
    • Pomme frites
      Chips
      $6

  • Desserts

    • Crème brûlée (gf)
      $12
    • Profiterolles 
      $15
    • Crèpes suzette 
      $16
    • Nougat glace au coulis de fraise (gf)
      $15

  • Fromages / Cheese

    • French cheese served with apples, walnuts and figs
      Single fromage $12 / Fromage en couple $18
    • Fromage a trois
      Selection of 3 French cheeses served
      with grapes, walnut, fig and bread
      $26

Special Events

BYO

Free BYO wine on Wednesdays.

Functions and conferences

Coucou is a great place to hold a private function or work conference.

Our dining room can cater for groups of up to 40 people seated.

Our petanque court and front bar area create unique spaces for guests to mingle.

Jerome has a range of set and degustation menus on offer and he is happy to customise these to suit specific requirements.

If you wish to reserve the entire restaurant we do not charge a booking fee. However, groups are asked to ensure a minimum spend of:

$1500 for an evening function.

$850 for lunch on weekdays.

Weddings

Our experienced team will make sure your special day is remembered for the right reasons.

Jerome is happy to work with you to create the perfect menu for any event - either at your place or ours.

Bookings

Please fill in the form to book a table or call us on 04 476 3354. We will email you within the next 24 hours to confirm whether a table is available.

Gift vouchers

Coucou gift vouchers make great gifts!!!

International friends and family can use Paypal to buy our vouchers safely and securely.

Email lucy@coucou.co.nz for more information or pop into the restaurant to order/collect.

Links & Reviews

NZ Herald July 29, 2011

Wow those taste buds in Wellers' burbs

Poverty Bay Wine Dinner, Published in Sunday Star Times, May 22 2011

Last Thursday, Coucou Restaurant in Karori, in association with Poverty Bay Wines, hosted an evening of beautiful wine and delicious food influenced by the Bordeaux region of France. The degustation menu, created by chef Jerome Touzard, was nothing short of sensational, matched with superb quality wines from well-known Wellingtonian Klaus Sorensen's Bridge Estate vineyard in Poverty Bay. A fabulous feast of the very best of New Zealand's harvest, coupled with the talent of an amazing chef.

Coucou is a member of the Conscious Consumers initiative which encourages cafes and restaurants to demonstrate a commitment to environmental and socially conscious business practices.

BLOGS: Our thanks to Choice! nz  and Fighting Fat Chick who have written nice blogs about us.

We have some customer reviews on the Dineout and Tripadvisor websites.

About

Coucou, Karori's local French bistro, offers a truly authentique and unpretentious taste of France.

Jerome Touzard, the head chef and owner, grew up in Brittany and trained as a chef in France before working his way to the top in some of the best restaurants in London [including those at the Savoy, Hilton and Waldorf hotels] and in Sydney.

On sunny days you can borrow our boules and enjoy a game of petanque and a glass of pastis in the sunny back yard.

And, when it's windy and wet you can warm up with a bowl of delicious homemade French onion soup, a hearty RibEye and a nice glass of vin rouge.

Our wine list has a great selection of red, white, bubbly and dessert wines with an emphasis on the smaller boutique local and French vineyards.