Restaurants in Kaikoura
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Hislops
This snappy, feel-good cafe maintains its reputation for fresh, wholesome food. Start the morning with fruit salad and toasted muesli, then come back at night for organic meats plus great seafood, veg and vegan choices. The caramelised-pumpkin and blue-cheese salad is delicious.
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Beach House Café & Bar
Serving the best brunch and coffee in town, this chipper roadside cafe garners more than its fair share of the passing trade. Sit on the front terrace or back deck and reconstitute with green eggs and ham, fish and chips or seafood chowder. Good counter food, too.
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Green Dolphin
Quality Kaikoura fish Asian style, and the omnipresent bovine, ovine and lobstery treats, all made with care and a fondness for good local produce. On busy nights, book ahead or nurse a cocktail or aperitif in the pleasant bar or garden. Those with foresight should plump for a table with a view by the floor-to-ceiling windows.
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Café Encounter
Housed in the Dolphin Encounter complex, this cafe is more than just somewhere to wait for your trip. Good counter food, and coffee plus cakes, crepes, bagels, toasties and daily specials, such as hot smoked salmon on focaccia. Sea and esplanade views from the sunny patio.
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Store at Kekerengu
A good place for a pit stop, being halfway between Blenheim and Kaikoura. Your best bet is the counter food or coffee and cake, rather than the overpriced à la carte menu. Enjoy it by the fire in the rustic interior, or out on the wide sun decks, with magical sea-peeks.
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Sonic
A casual bar-eatery on West End’s southern end, with a pool table, oceans of Mac’s beer and occasional live music. Grab a sundowner on the covered deck or terrace and look out to sea through the grand Norfolk pines on the esplanade.
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Thai Siam
Cheerful, vaulted space on the main drag serving a typically expansive Thai menu of over 45 mains including a good selection of Asian salads. The $10 lunch special is a bargain.
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Pier Hotel
Wide views of bay and mountains beyond make this the grandest dining room in town. A cheerful crew serves up generous portions of honest food, such as fresh local fish, venison medallions and crayfish for those with fat wallets. The enticing public bar has reasonably priced beer and bar snacks, historical photos, and a garden bar. What more could you want?
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