277 Carlisle St, Balaclava, VIC 3183 Open for seated dining - Thu to Sun - Dinner (closed Mon to Wed) For booking (03) 9525 8886

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En Izakaya – Open for Seated Dining
Thu to Sun – Dinner from 5pm
Takeaway also available
277 Carlisle St., Balaclava, VIC 3183 – ph: (03) 9525 8886
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From the garden

Wakame, akanori & ao-ogo seaweed salad with
lettuce, tomato, cucumber & saganaki cheese $17

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Seared momen tofu & miso infused eggplant oven baked $17

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Dumplings filled with sweet potato, carrot & shiitake
- sprinkled with black sesame $12

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Soba noodle salad with cucumber, zucchini & tomato -
laced with a wasabi & white miso vinaigrette $13

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From the sea

A selection of salmon and hamachi
kingfish nigiri sushi (6 pieces) $18

Soy marinated tuna sashimi - laced with
a spring onion, wasabi & pistachio dressing $24

California roll filled with tuna, prawn, avacado, wasabi
& flying fish roe $16

Hamachi kingfish carpaccio - with pickled turnip &
miso vinaigrette dressing $17

Wasabi salt coated fried school prawns $9

Salmon & soy bean tempura fritter
- with Tasmanian salmon cream $19

Tuna & spring onion wrapped in tofu skin (yuba)
& lightly fried $21

Deep fried prawns with yuzu, soy & lemon infused eggplant –
garnished with pickled ginger & shredded shiso leaf $16

A grilled piece of salmon - marinated using white miso,
sake, soy $18


 

From the paddock

Braised free range Otway pork belly flavoured with
soy, mirin & honey - then flamed $24

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Very slowly cooked beef blade in soy & mirin, with a touch
of chilli - served with Japanese silken tofu $17

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Sticky rice coated steamed dumplings filled with chicken, prawn & ginger
– With hot mustard & a soy/vinegar dipping sauce $18

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Black sesame marinated chicken thigh with chilli,
garlic, honey & sansho pepper $18

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Grade 9+ wagyu beef meatball with sweet soy sauce
& wasabi mayonnaise $17

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Panko crumbed chicken thigh fillet – rubbed with spicy
yuzu paste & stuffed with shiso herb – deep fried $16

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Bits & Pieces



En's miso soup $5

Pumpkin & white miso soup – topped with fried leek $8

Rice $4


Desserts



Sorbets! – Watermelon & umeshu, green apple & shiso,
Yuzu & honey (all 3 sorbets included) $13

Green tea & banana icecream laced with chocolate
& sprinkled with crumbled pistachios $9

Black sesame & yoghurt icecream with a crushed
raspberry sauce $9


En Izakaya – Open for seated dining
Thu to Sun – Dinner from 5pm
Takeaway also available

277 Carlisle St., Balaclava, VIC 3183 – ph: (03) 9525 8886
CLICK FOR IMMEDIATE ONLINE BOOKINGS

Book Online - Free, Instant, Guaranteed.