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Bodhi Tree
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Christchurch’s only Burmese restaurant is also one of the city’s best eateries. Don’t come expecting bold flavours from neighbouring Thailand, but look forward to subtle food crafted from exceptionally fresh ingredients. Standout dishes include the le pet thoke (pickled tea leaf salad) and the ciandi thoke (grilled eggplant). Meat and seafood also feature. Dishes are entrée-sized so drum up a group and sample lots of different flavours. Bookings are essential.
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Lotus Heart
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This organic, vegetarian eatery does curries, freshly squeezed juices and filled pita pockets. There’s another more central branch above the i-SITE in Cathedral Sq with longer opening hours, which operates as a more spacious restaurant with tasty veg pizzas and casseroles (mains $8 to $16).
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Liquidity
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Liquidity’s eclectic and stylish decor mixing chandeliers and warm timber tones combines with a diverse and proudly local menu. Free-range chicken with Israeli couscous and prime Canterbury lamb are a cut above other players on ‘the Strip’. Later at night good cocktails and plenty of European beer on tap fuels Liquidity’s eventual metamorphosis into a bar. Eclectic beats kick off most nights from 10pm. The morning after it’s a good riverside option for brunch ($13 to $20).
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Under the Red Verandah
This lovely old villa is always packed with regulars, especially on bustling weekend mornings. Weekdays are slightly less busy, but still a good time for lots of organic and gluten-free baking, and mains including grilled haloumi on ciabatta and wonderfully robust oaty pancakes. The on-site deli and gallery space are further reasons to make the flat 30-minute walk from town.
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Tatsumi Kitchen & Pub
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Grab a table, or prop yourself at the bar with a handle of draught Asahi beer and choose from an almost-too-big selection of Japanese snacks and small plates. The sushi and sashimi is supremely fresh, and there’s a tad more innovation – soft shell crabs or fish carpaccio anyone? – than your usual Japanese eatery. Lunch specials ($15) are particularly good value.
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Chinwag
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Designer Thai food comes to Christchurch with subtle spins on the traditional Thai cookbook. Start the night with a heady Wild Thang cocktail and graduate to zingy, zesty dishes including green curry with prawns and baby corn. Bookings recommended. There is another branch dubbed Chinwag II ( [tel] 03-366 4544) at 131 Victoria St, with the same opening hours.
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Lunes
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Just maybe the perfect Christchurch cafe: Lunes mixes cool jazz, a professorial approach to making coffee, and perfect midafternoon treats like baked New York cheesecake. Only open for six weeks during research, and is already easily one of the favourite caffeine haunts in town.
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Bicycle Thief
Tom Waits on the stereo, a corner spot overlooking leafy Latimer Sq, and an excellent wine and beer list. What more could you want? How about great thin-crust pizzas and lovingly prepared rustic Italian cuisine? Cafe, bar or restaurant? You choose.
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Memphis Belle
The shortish trek from central Christchurch is definitely worth it for the city’s best pizza. Look forward to retro furniture and thin-crust savoury marvels that put to shame the international chains. Cash only and bookings are recommended.
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Nobanno
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NZ’s only Bangladeshi restaurant dishes up sub-continental flavours that are slightly more subtle and subdued than the sometimes overt spiciness of Indian cuisine. The seafood – including prawn and fish curries – is especially good.
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C1 Espresso
C1 is a versatile spot with a global selection of teas and coffees, lots of local beers, and everything from robust breakfasts to bagels, wraps and burritos. Check out the selection of framed postcards and plan your next escape.
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dose
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Cunningly mismatched furniture, bold local art, and high art-deco ceilings add up to a top place for wickedly strong coffee, superlative bagels, and quite probably Christchurch’s best eggs Benedict.
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NG Café
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Old meets new with a combination of iconic Kiwi snacks such as Anzac biscuits and relaxing world music beats. Soups and sandwiches tick the box marked ‘comfort food’.
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Copenhagen Bakery & Café
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A regular winner in the Supreme Pie Awards – try the chicken satay – but also highly regarded by locals for tasty sandwiches and cakes.
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Burgers & Beer Inc
Quirkily named gourmet burgers – try the Moroccan-spiced Woolly Sahara Sand Hopper – and lots of Kiwi brews.
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Avon Café & Bakery
Life is really quite simple. Sometimes all you need is a takeaway coffee beside the banks of the Avon River.
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Joe’s Garage
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The pride of Queenstown comes to Christchurch and brings along good-value breakfasts and lunches.
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Little Saigon
Cheap and cheerful with all your Vietnamese favourites, including excellent fresh spring rolls.
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High to Hereford Food Court
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Spotless food court that travels from Greece and India, to Cambodia, China and ltaly.
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Lotus Heart
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