Create a menu list

Hi, I need to list create a long cafe menu. It should look like the example below.
Menu item 1………………….$ 12.00
Menu item 2………………….$ 1.50
The menu items vary in length but I would like the $ to line up in a column. This difficult to achieve because I can’t get them to precisely line up in a text block. I have spent hours experimenting – MS Word allows the use of tabs but I cannot achieve this in HTML. If I separate the prices into another column, there is spacing between the columns and it doesn’t look right. Can you suggest a good solution. Thankyou!