Menu

• Brunch & Lunch

  • Toasted baguette
    Served with butter and jam
    $4.50
  • Petit Dejeuner
    Croissant 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
  • Brittany crepes
    With banana and maple syrup or with hot chocolate sauce
    $14
  • 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, salmon, cheese, ham or any combination of them $17
  • Gratinée Lyonnaise
    Traditional French Onion soup with gruyere on toast
    $13
  • Duck liver parfait
    served with crostini, cornichon and walnut salad
    $16
    
  • 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
  • Steak and chips
    with salad and a Bearnaise sauce
    $23
    
  • Fish of the day
    with steamed vegetables and salsa 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

  • Sélection de pains rustiques
    Bread basket with olive oil, balsamic vinegar and butter (v)
    $8.00
  • Soupe du jardin
    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 (v)
    $16
  • Crevette noire grillees, servis avec une salade de fenouil frais
    Tiger prawns served with a fennel salad
    $19
  • 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

• Les Plats de resistance / 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
  • Risotto aux feves et fraiche truffle servis dans un panier a parmesan
    Fresh wild Hawkes Bay truffle and broad bean risotto served in a parmesan basket (v)
    $36
  • 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)
    $35
  • 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
    $45
  • Carre d’agneau menthé lentilles vertes du puy servis avec une sauce aux figues
    Minted crumbled rack of lamb, served with ratatouille
    $35
  • Canard 2 facons (cuisse confite et magret roti) servi avec une mousseline de celery rave et une sauce de champignons sauvages
    Duck cooked two ways (leg confit and breast roast) and served with celeriac mousseline and wild mushroom sauce (gf)
    $33
  • 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)
    A selection of seven mini dessert treats
    $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

• Wine List

  • Methode Traditionale / Sparkling Wine
    
    
  • Veuve du Vernay Brut (Bordeaux, Fr.)   *200ml mini bottle   $10
  • Arrogant Frog Sparkling Rose (Languedoc, Fr.)    $32
  • Frizzzzell Methode Traditional Brut NV (Hawkes Bay, NZ)         $48
  • Lanvin Brut NV (Champagne, Fr.)   $75
  • Billecart Salmon Brut (Champagne Fr.)       $120
  • Vin Blanc Francaise / French White Wine
  • Domaine de L’Auriere Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2006 (Loire Valley, Fr.) $46
  • Arrogant Frog Lily Pad White Chardonnay 2010 (Languedoc, Fr.) $8 / $32
  • Delas-Freres Viognier  Vin de Pays d’Oc (Rhone, Fr.)       $34
  • Domain Willm Pinot Gris 2008 (Alsace, Fr.) $54
  • Bourgogne Reserve Saint Nicolas Aligote 2008 (Bourgogne, Fr.)  $58
  • Bourgogne Blanc Reserve de la Chevre Noirre Chardonnay 2008(Bourgogne, Fr.)      $66
  • Vin Blanc New Zealand / New Zealand White Wine
  • Murdoch James Sauvignon Blanc 2010 (Martinborough, NZ)      $8 / $32
  • Lake Ferry Sauvignon Blanc 2009 (Wairarapa, NZ) $34
  • St Jerome Gewurztraminer 2010 (Gisborne, NZ)   $42
  • Milton Crazy By Nature Shotberry Chardonay 2010 (Gisborne, NZ)  $9 / $36
  • Murdoch James Blue Rock Unoaked Chardonnay 2009 (Martinborough, NZ)  $46
  • Ohau Gravels Pinot Gris 2011 (Ohau, NZ)   $10 / $40
  • Konrad Riesling 2009 (Marlborough, NZ)   $8 / $32
  • Alluviale Blanc 2009 (Hawkes Bay, NZ)      $52
  • Rose
  • Georges Michel Summer Folly Pinot Rose 2009 (Marlborough, NZ) $8 / $32
  • Poverty Bay Old Vines Riverpoint Rose 2009 (Gisborne, NZ)      $46
  • Vin Rouge Francaise / French Red Wine
  • Arrogant Frog Cabernet Merlot 2008 (Languedoc, Fr.)     $8 / $32
  • Chateau Lauduc 2007 (Bordeaux, Fr.)        $12 / $48
  • Jean-Luc Colombo Les Abeilles Cotes du Rhone 2007  (Rhone, Fr.)       $42
  • Dom Ponnelle Reserve De La Chevre Noire Pinot Noir 2006 (Bourgogne, Fr.)   $68
  • Jean Luc-Colombo Chateaneuf du Pape 2006 (Rhone, Fr.)  $135
  • Vin Rouge New Zealand / New Zealand Red Wine
  • Murdoch James Cabernets 2008 (Martinborough, NZ)  $8  / $32
  • Lindis River “1912” Pinot Noir 2008 (Central Otago, NZ)   $10 / $40
  • Ata Rangi Crimson Pinot Noir 2009 (Martinborough, NZ)  $58
  • Te Mata Woodthorpe Gamay Noir 2010 (Hawkes Bay, NZ)         $9  / $36
  • Unison Vineyard Recovery Red 2009 (Hawkes Bay, NZ)  $36
  • Poverty Bay Matawhero Merlot Cabernets 2008 (Poverty Bay, NZ)  $48
  • Murdoch James Saleyards Syrah 2008 (Martinborough, NZ)  $56
  • St Jerome Matuka Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot 2000 (West Auckland, NZ)       $77
  • Te Mata Coleraine 2009 (Hawkes Bay, NZ) $115
  • Vin Rouge Internationale / Other Red Wine
  • Thorn-Clark Sandpiper Shiraz 2009 (Barossa, Aus)         $9 / $36
  • Francis Coppola Diamond Collection Zinfandel 2008 (California, USA)   $62
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  • Dessert Wines
  • Brightwater Ice Wine Riesling 2008 (Nelson, NZ)   $36
  • Schubert Dolce 2009 (Wairarapa, NZ)  $12 / $48
  • M.Chapoutier Muscat Beaumes de Venise  2007 (Rhone, Fr.)      $52
  • Chateau du Mayne Sauternes 2007 (Bordeaux, Sauternes AOC, France)   $58

• Coffee & Tea

  • Short or Long black $3.50
    
  • Flat White; Latte; Cappuccino $4
  • Mocha / Hot Chocolate $4.50
  • Liquor coffee or hot chocolate: Liquor coffee or hot chocolate with your choice of Kahlua, Bailey’s, Grand Marnier, Irish Whiskey, Frangelico or Amaretto $12
  • T leaf T selection: Earl grey blue flower, English breakfast, Chai, Gunpowder, Tokyo lime, Fabulous feijoa, High grade jasmine; Turkish apple, Berrylicious, Peppermint, Chamomile $3.50 for one / $5 for two

Special Events

Valentines Day

We will be open for dinner on Valentines Day (Tuesday February 14th). And, Jerome's planning a special treat!... Book your table now.

BYO

Free BYO wine on Wednesdays.

Functions and conferences

Coucou is a great place to hold a private function or work conference. Please contact jerome@coucou.co.nz for more information.

Weddings

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

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

Reservations

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 is a family owned community bistro offering both traditional and modern French fare.

Jerome Touzard, the head chef and owner, grew up and trained 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.

Jerome set up Coucou with the aim of bringing affordable high quality French cuisine to Wellington.

At Coucou we believe the best food starts with the best ingredients. We are a member of the Conscious Consumers initiative and always strive to find the best free range meat and eggs, fresh produce, French cheese and coffee beans available.

Our wine list has a great selection of red, white, bubbly and dessert wines from quality New Zealand and French vineyards.

At all times of the day we aim to provide you with warm service in a relaxed and friendly environment.

Coucou is a great place to hold your next private function, enjoy a family meal or a romantic dinner with that someone special.