2 Best Restaurants in Tairua, Coromandel and the Bay of Plenty

Manaia Café and Bar

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This spacious, centrally located café–restaurant can get busy with both visitors and locals. Breakfast kicks off at 9 am with all the standard Kiwi options. Salads, burgers, and fish-and-chips come on the menu for lunch; dinner is still casual but with slightly more upmarket fare with a good range of lamb, steak, salmon, pork, and vegetable dishes on offer. If you arrive during the day, pop into the adjacent Manaia Gallery, which sells jewelry, art, and crafts.

Surf and Sand

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A classic New Zealand takeout experience, this is the spot to get a quintessential Kiwi-style beachside lunch or dinner of fish, shellfish, chips (fries), and burgers. When the fish (battered or crumbed) and chips are done well, they’re not too greasy or fatty. You could even wash them down with a bottle of the very sweet Lemon & Paeroa (the iconic Kiwiana soda made not too far from the Coromandel).
Seafood Lunch Dinner Quick Bite $
Shop 7, Main Rd., Tairua, Waikato, 3508, New Zealand
07-864–8617
Known For
  • classic New Zealand fish-and-chips
  • kūmara (sweet potato) fries
  • battered Coromandel oysters