The Black Olive Takeaway & Restaurant

Kerikeri

 26/05/2012

Food fresh and service a delight. I had the Black Olive pizza and the Black forest dessert. The pizza was fresh and tasty, the dessert a little dry. Seating a little awkward, it was hard to get around the table arrangements. Otherwise, good.

Waterfront Cafe

Mangonui

 23/05/2012

Standards have slipped of late, last visit the food was greasy and the portions were average, the staff had little time for us and we felt like a nuisance. We enquired what they cooked their food in a were told it was beef fat……whoa that was enough for our vegetarian guest to feel both sick and pretty put out, I mean beef fat and all that cholesterol in this day and age, come on guys get with it!

Birdies Cafe

Kaitaia

 01/05/2012

Stopped in for a quick bite and coffee, friendly service great food and coffee. Will be going back.

Shippey’s Fresh Fish & Chips

Paihia

 01/05/2012

Was told about Shippeys by a friend and decided to check it out. Great food, service and fantastic value for money, so good I ate there two nights in a row. Will alwasy eat here when Im in Paihia. A must try lace to eat when in Paihia.

Redwoods Cafe & Restaurant

Kerikeri

 28/04/2012

Big disappointment, I have been to most places in Paihia that have a breakfast menu and have just started to venture further to Kerikeri, well I ordered eggs Benedict w/bacon, waited1/2 an hour for it to turn up (I can understand if its busy and they have make the first batch of hollandaise sauce of the day) but not busy and the sauce was watery and lacked in flavour, the bacon looked if it had been cut free hand and in parts was 4-5 mm thick and very very tough, the bun/bread they used was extremely tough (I suggest they serve with steak knives if that is how it is meant to be) the stalk of the spinach/silver beet had been chopped 3/4 days previous to cooking and the dark brown/black ends should have been trimmed off prior to getting to my table, I don’t normally use salt and pepper but when I found a table with them I got up and brought them to get some flavour on what I did eat. I know it sounds harsh but they definitely need to hire someone who knows how to cook for a cafe, this was the worst breakfast I have paid for, I wouldn’t eat it all, so I ended up enjoying a sausage bought from a sausage sizzle outside The Warehouse in Waipapa

Alfresco’s

Paihia

 23/04/2012

Great Service and Great Food. Highly resommend and will be making this a regular haunt on visits to the BOI