Nenu the Artisan Baker
Traditional Maltese restaurant and artisan bakery in St Dominic Street
Address: St Dominic Street, Valletta
Phone: 22 581 535
Menu prices: €4.75–€48.50 · €€ · Median main: €20 · 42/42 with a published price
Traditional Maltese restaurant and artisan bakery
Starters
- Fresh Sheep's milk cheeselet — €8.50Fresh sheep's milk cheeselet, tomatoes, marinated green & black olives, spring onions, salad leaves, basil & carob dressing
- Toasted Maltese bread — €5.50Toasted Maltese bread, caponata, tomato, olive, capers, onions, fresh herbs
- Local snails in Nenu's special sauce — €7.50Snails cooked in an aromatic tomato sauce & served with Maltese bread
- Fried rabbit liver — €7.50Fried rabbit liver, prunes, anisette, rabbit gravy, citrus pickled fennel & garlic crostini
- Maltese-grown Pork Belly — €7.50Local slow-roasted honey glazed pork belly, apple purée, marinated lentils & peppered cheeselet
To share between two persons
- Typical Maltese platter — €16.00Bigilla (Djerba-bean dip), sun-dried tomatoes, stuffed olives, marinated butter beans, Maltese sausage, pickled onions, caponata, peppered sheep's milk cheeselet, sweet tomato purée, olive oil, Maltes
Salads
- Grilled Swordfish steak — €13.50Grilled swordfish, marinated white beans, sundried tomatoes, capers, olives, onions, salad leaves, lemon & mint dressing
- Peppered cheeselets and chickpeas — €12.50Chickpea & peppered cheeselet salad, sun-dried tomatoes, pickled fennel, spring onions, salad leaves & marjoram dressing
- Grilled aubergine — €10.50served with carob syrup, crushed walnuts and a date pâte
Pasta
- Spaghetti with rabbit sauce — €9.50Spaghetti with slow cooked rabbit meat, tomato sauce, green peas
- Spaghetti with octopus sauce — €10.50Spaghetti with Maltese octopus stew, olives, capers, tomatoes and fresh mint
- Ravioli stuffed with sheep's milk cheeselets — €10.50Sheep cheese ravioli, tomato-basil sauce, grated and peppered cheeselets
- Maltese-sausage Lasagne — €9.50Lasagne with Maltese sausage ragù & local goat's cheese cream
- Rigatoni with sauce — €8.50Rigatoni with tomato sauce, capers and olives
Traditional Maltese Ftajjar
- Ta' Nenu — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with sundried tomatoes, black olives, grated peppered Maltese cheeselet, onions, Maltese sausages, capers, thyme and sesame seeds
- Ta' Ġorġ ir-Raġel — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with potatoes, pork belly strips, ricotta, broad beans, beaten eggs, fresh rosemary and sesame seeds
- Karmni s-Sultana — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with thin sliced potatoes, tomatoes, anchovies, onions, capers, olives, fresh mint, fennel and sesame seeds
- Ta' Żeppi ċ-Ċirwilla — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with thin sliced potatoes, roast beef, tomatoes, garlic, fresh parsley and sesame seeds
- Tal-Baldas — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with sliced chicken, tomatoes, onions, fresh sage, black olives, olive oil and sesame seeds
- Fra Ġużepp — €12.50Maltese bread dough topped with marrows, aubergines, onions, green peppers, tomatoes, local cheeselets, garlic, black olives, capers, fresh mint, olive oil and sesame seeds
- Anġla l-Furnara — €13.50Maltese bread dough topped with rabbit stew, peas, thin sliced potatoes and sesame seeds
- Ta' Karmnu l-Bidija — €13.50Maltese bread dough topped with pork belly, Maltese sausage, gravy, thin sliced potatoes and sesame seeds
Main Courses
- Pan-fried brown meagre — €22.50Pan-fried brown meagre fillet, crispy fennel, fresh herbs, tomato, olive & caper salsa
- Blistered octopus — €23.00Blistered octopus, garlic, spiced red pepper-tomato sauce, fresh mint
- Ta' Nenu braised horse meat — €18.50Ta' Nenu braised horse meat in red wine thyme gravy
- Carob-glazed pork shank — €20.00Carob-glazed pork shank, slow cooked in local beer & herbs
- Traditional Maltese Rabbit fried in garlic — €18.00Traditional Maltese fried rabbit in garlic, rabbit gravy with garden peas. *Whole rabbit €40.00
- Roasted spring chicken — €18.00Roasted boneless chicken with rosemary & Maltese honey
- Wrapped veal loaf in a Maltese sauce — €21.50Wrapped veal loaf with Maltese sausage & fresh cheeselet stuffing, hard-boiled egg in traditional Maltese-flavoured tomato sauce
- Maltese-pork platter for two persons — €48.50Glazed pork shank, slow cooked pork belly, roasted Maltese sausage
- Stuffed peppers — €16.50with rice, broad beans, cherry tomatoes, spring onions and fresh herbs with crispy fennel salad
Desserts
- Maltese trifle — €5.00sponge, vanilla and chocolate custard, fresh cream and seasonal fruit
- Date fritters with Maltese ice-cream — €5.50deep fried wine base dough with date filling, served with Maltese ice-cream
- Halva semifreddo — €5.50layers of vanilla sponge, Halva parfait, crushed biscuits and chocolate crunch, fruit coulis
- Traditional Maltese bread pudding served with fig ice-cream — €4.75Maltese bread pudding with dried fruit, cocoa powder, almonds, baked and served with fig ice-cream
- Traditional Maltese sinizza with pears — €5.50Puff pastry, vanilla sponge with sweet ricotta, almonds and pears
- Apple-pie with vanilla ice-cream — €4.75sweet pastry dough, clove-spiced apple pie filling, vanilla ice-cream and caramel sauce
Kid's menu
- Spaghetti with cream & cheese — €5.50
- Ricotta ravioli with tomato sauce — €6.00
- Chicken nugget chunks with fried potatoes — €6.00
- Battered fish nuggets with fried potatoes — €6.00
- Ftira il-passju — €7.50