I have been a member of the PWMC for 9 year and eaten at the bistro and the restaurant often. The bistro and the restaurant have a variety of things to suit all taste. Both have good service and tasty dishes at affordable prices.

Visited: Sept 2011
We’ve been a couple of times, as we are members of the club. And the restaurant upstairs is awesome. I think it was about $21 per person, but it is a buffet style meal, and you can keep going back for more.

There is a section for starters, and a section for main and a section for desserts. And you just go and get what you want and go back to your table.

I had garlic mushrooms for starters, then I had a carvery style meal with sliced beef, carrots, green beans, kumara and pumpkin and potatoes, with gravy. It was so tasty my mouth is actually watering thinking about it.
The staff are so friendly and go out of their way to help you.
Me and my husband agree that it is the best food around, in a great calm atmosphere. We are proud to be members of a great club!
I would recommend it to anyone, especially people with small children.

We’ve been looking for a place that the kids would find exciting for special occasions, and that the adults would also find pleasant, and that we could afford to take the whole gang to. After thinking about the previous favourite of the kids, which the adults tolerated but were not that keen on, we worked out it was the self-serve salad boat that got them going.

So then I remembered we’d been recommended the buffet at the Petone Working Men’s Club, and booked for my son’s birthday there.

Well, we’ll be going back. For a buffet, it had a good range of food, nicely done, and the place itself was clean and pleasant (in buffet dining hall style), with friendly, helpful staff.

The food I guess was more or less what you’d expect, but done better than you’d expect. I also noticed that they were constantly getting rid of anything that had sat there too long and replenishing it, which I guess is how they avoided that dried-out bain-marie effect you can get in places like this.

The kids were beside themselves at getting to choose not just salads but everything, and the array of backlit jellies at the dessert area was something to behold.

Plus it’s affordable! I think it was $21 per adult for non-members, and $1.20 per year of age for kids. On Sundays it’s $16 per non-member adult, and kids are free! We are definitely going back on a Sunday.

PS I would have been put off by the promises of giant sports screens in the description above … but these were not in the restaurant. I think they’re in the members’ bar area.