Ziff's Café and Bar

Ziff's Café and Bar Review

This enormously popular restaurant on the way to Oreti Beach (past the airport) is a local favorite. Ziff's does steak, blue cod, chicken, and pasta, and customers love the home-smoked salmon and the venison hot pot. The establishment provides a taxi service for NZ$2 per person, so you can indulge in their excellent wines and cognacs, too. Some nights it can be noisy, so if you want a sotto dining experience have lunch here on the way to the "World's Fastest Indian's" training grounds. The house seafood chowder, flavored with capers, lime, and smoky bacon, is quite good. Breakfast is served until 2 pm.