Design your own menu!

Menu by consensus or 'Crowdsourcing' (cheers @theprovenance)Ever read a menu and thought, ‘Gee I wish they had this or that’ as you scan the list? Or have you ever thought ‘Its good but it could be perfect if it only had a few more of this type of dish’?Think you could come up with a menu that ticks all the boxes? Would you be prepared to collaborate with other contributors to help shape a bone fide a la carte?I’m working on a project due to open in the near future and was curious to see what people in the blogosphere and the web could come up with given the chance to have a say on a cafe/restaurant menu.So here’s an opportunity to contribute to a very real menu!.There are a few guidelines:Location: rural waterside Tasmania (cant give too much away!)Trading hours: breakfast and lunch, seven daysBreakfast menu: 10 itemsLunch menu: 12 to 15 itemsPrice point: nothing above $20Wording: very little jargonStaff: little hospitality experienceAll contributions must be validated by a legitimate email address with your submissions. Anonymous contributions will not be accepted.

You can also Tweet your menu suggestions here: @stevencumper
You can submit individual dishes or whole menus and I’ll post the growing list as it evolves and then we’ll whittle down the final contenders.
All contributors will be acknowledged on the menu
That’s all for now. I’m not able to divulge the location due to a confidentiality agreement but will answer other enquiries.
Have a crack and hope to hear from you soon!

Cheers Steve

Ok we're off. Thanks to Tanya Murray who got the ball rolling!

Breakfast ideas

• Tanya Murray- coddled egg, it's a meal in a cup. You could salmon, chive and soft cheese or ham and cherry tomato and a tasty cheese. Served with simple toast soldiers. How about old fashioned tomato jam on toast with bacon. For something different what about a simple fish cake (a good way to use yesterday's left overs)
• Stew Woods-Eggs Benedict on Haloumi (or a Haloumi hash) would light my breakfast fire! 
• Roz MacAllen-Freshly made crumpets, nothing like that ever offered in restaurants/cafes but I have another beef, the descriptions on menus, keep finding menus that need lots of interpretation. Just had chilli squid in cafe in Tamar area. They added a ladleful of chilli sauce, over the top of the fried squid. Not even hot chilli, just tasted like commercial bottle tomato sauce with a miniscule amount of chilli. Expected with description that it would be cooked in chopped chilli, oil and possibly garlic.
• Asher Gilding-Toasted banana bread with salted caramel butter (even though salted caramel is played out this is delicious). Bacon, Brie and mushroom baguette. Pancakes with banana, bacon and maple syrup.

Lunch ideas  

• Winsor Dobbin-How abour rabbit pies, or old-fashioned steak and kidney. Gourmet hamburgers, and, yes, like the idea of fishcakes.
• Bob Danbergs-all good and you could make cakes as chunky seafood with salmon, white fish and pra. premature send! not prayer or pram...prawns. Had cakes like that from Angelakis Bros. Nice with a Asian salad
• Stu Addison-"gourmet hamburgers are so last week..."
• Noelene Ejekert-v popular in my house is burnt eggplant slow cooked with summer tomatoes and garlic/Harissa ie "zaalouk" great w lamb
• Roslyn MacAllan-if the new restaurant is by the water, fish/seafood pie over Winsor's meat pies
• Jo Cook-Moules-frites! French fries & mussels....by the water...can't get better...oh a cold cider, or beer, or a vino. I'd make the trip for that if was done with excellence ( ;