Coromandel Peninsula and the Bay of Plenty Restaurants

There are many dining options across the Coromandel and Bay of Plenty. You can buy food from roadside seafood shacks and take-out fish-and-chips joints to cafés serving sandwiches and espresso coffee, right through to white-linen affairs. Even when restaurants are formal in appearance, diners and hosts tend toward a relaxed country-casualness. Restaurant owners make a point of using the region's abundant resources: the fish is likely to have been caught that morning from a nearby bay, and shellfish are from local mussel and oyster farms. A huge community of artists lives in the region and their work is likely to be for sale even though it adorns restaurant walls.