Just like our café culture, our restaurant scene offers a never-ending choice of dining experiences and cuisines.
Options include everything from multi award-winning fish and chips to fine dining, and from locally brewed craft beer and wine, to steambox (meals cooked using natural sources of geothermal steam) or hāngī (a traditional Māori underground cooking method). Rotorua really will surprise you.
The bustling hub of Eat Streat boasts a dozen or so restaurants and bars in a thermally heated, covered avenue as long as a city block.
Here and throughout the city, food from every corner of the world is at your beck and call – a global smorgasbord of gastronomical delights.
Rotorua Social Club
Restaurants
Open 7 days a week from 8am serving up fine quality food and beverages for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with great service in a relaxed, sociable atmosphere.
Sobar & Cafe
Restaurants
Chill out with your family and friends. Enjoy the live music and tasty food in the middle of Eat Streat.
Atticus Finch
Restaurants
Atticus Finch is a restaurant and bar offering contemporary New Zealand cuisine. Opening for a café-style lunch and shared plates for evening dining.
Herbs & Spices Thai Restaurant
Restaurants
Herbs & Spices Thai Restaurant is the place to be. The menu includes all your Thai favourites like roasted duck curry, thick red curry, and pad Thai noodles. But that's not all. Check out the online menu for the works.
Oppies Fish & Chips
Restaurants
For more than 20 years, award-winning Oppie's Fish and Chips has been a favourite with locals and visitors alike.
Good Eastern Taphouse
Restaurants, East
If you’re hitting the trails, staying at one of the local lakes, or exploring the Redwoods Forest, Good Eastern Taphouse is the perfect place to refuel. With a huge range of Good George beers and ciders on tap and a mouth-watering menu, there’s something to tempt everyone.
Barrel & Co. Bar and Grill
Restaurants
At Barrel & Co. cooking centres around hearty grill favourites and a farm-to-table philosophy. Overlooking Arawa Street, the new restaurant has a modern atmosphere with an open kitchen and welcoming service.
Sabroso Restaurant
Restaurants
Serving authentic home-style food from throughout Latin America in a welcoming, casual setting.
Urbano Bistro
Restaurants
Urbano Bistro is a smart casual café by day and informal bistro restaurant by night.
Ambrosia Restaurant & Bar
Restaurants
Ambrosia, with its beautiful traditional interior, was the first licensed restaurant in Rotorua in 1954.
CBK Craft Bar & Kitchen
Restaurants
New Zealanders have always been great hosts, and it’s a tradition Craft Bar & Kitchen (CBK) is determined to keep alive.
Hennessy's Irish Bar
Restaurants
Visit Hennessy’s Irish Bar right in the heart of Rotorua, an authentic Irish bar famous for serving Rotorua’s favourite pub food and New Zealand’s best Guinness.