Restaurants
Monte Alto Eatery & Bar
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7:30 am - 3:00 pm
Monte Alto Eatery & Bar
Monte Alto is a Restaurant/Cafe & Whisky Bar serving creative Modern Australian dishes with a twist, house roasted coffee and the best selections of whisky in the lower north shoreMonte Alto is a Restaurant/ Cafe & Whisky Bar set in a relaxed and casual environment serving creative Modern Australian dishes with a twist, house roasted coffee and the best selections of whisky in the lower north shore. The experienced owner/chef Harry created the menu inspired by his endless passion for quality produce and people.
#eatwithmonte - A must try during the day is the Monte Alto's Egg Benedict with 12 hr coffee rubbed pork roast and apple cider hollandaise. Alternatively, sit back and relax with a Spanish Cafe Con Miel or an Austrian Kaiser Melange from the unique Coffee Around the World menu. To dine, our Smoky Pork Ribs, basted in Monte Alto's secret BBQ Sauce. The Seagrapes with double smoked salmon and dill sauce entree is also a crowd favourite.
#montebynight Pouring the best whisky selection on the lower north shore. Not only do we host over 120 whisky bottles from around the world, we also stock constantly changing craft beers and cocktails. More than just a shelf at a restaurant, we have also created a unique whisky-pairing menu for you to experience. Our signature Yum Cha scotch egg paired with Macallan 12 is the perfect treat before you head home from work.
Reserve a seat and enjoy Monte Alto.
Monte Alto in Spanish/Italian simply means Mountain High. For us, Monte Alto means a lot more than the assurance of the best quality products and services. This is the journey of best friends working hard, trying to climb our mountain high; as encouraging everyone that if we can move our mountain, so can ...read more
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Dining Options
- Delivery
- Coffee
- Eat-in
- A-la-carte
- Banquet
- Functions
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Price Guide
- Mains $20-$30
- Entrees under $20
Disabled Facilities
- Wheel Chair Access
Features
- Family Friendly
- Group Bookings
- Bar
- Catering
- Private Function
Licensing
- BYO (Wine Only)
- Licensed
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Menu
- Breakfast
- Tapas
- Brunch
- Lunch
- Dinner
Cuisine
- Modern Australian
Distinguished by Scandi-furniture and towering artworks, Monte Alto is a friendly eatery serving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Set apart from the main Crows Nest restaurant hub, it's easy enough to get to by crossing at the set of lights at the Falcon Street/ Pacific Highway intersection.
Service is friendly and accommodating and in this day of "no variations to the menu", it was refreshing to find our request for a cheeseburger without the addition of onion and pickled carrots to be no problem.
The affogato was a great mid-morning pick me up, with the vanilla ice cream the perfect foil for the strong and slightly bitter coffee.
A nice cafe in Crows Nest that serves up unique coffees and nice brunch dishes. I like the Sir Benedict ($16) which is a toasted brioche bun topped with your choice of coffee rubbed roast pork, bacon, or smoked salmon with poached eggs, sauteed spinach, roasted cherry tomatoes and citrus hollandaise sauce. I choose the coffee rubbed roast pork which tastes flavoursome. The hollandaise sauce is light which is good as I sometimes find hollandaise sauce too heavy and rich.
It was a pleasure to come here both for the original soft launch and again after the official grand opening. The menu has changed slightly but the feelings of amazement and satisfaction after each meal remain. Harry now works out of the kitchen, but the menu still very much is his.
There's elements of Japanese, a strong presence of Italian and Australian, the quintessential Modern menu of this culinary diverse dining landscape we live in.
The VEAL SCALLOPINI is amazing served on garlic mash and surrounded by a mote of beef jus. Just like the SLOW COOKED PORK there’s delicate ...read more
This new cafe only opened within the last month. Bright new fresh space, looks so clean, and the staff were efficient and doing a good job, not easy in the early days. My coffee was superb, no idea what the coffee beans was, the bane of the business suggests they do the roasting of the green beans, no idea where or how this is done. I also got a drag squeezed juice, yum. I didn't have time for breakfast, but the people at a nearby table did, and their food looked both colourful and delicious. In excited to return soon.
