Supporting local growers and producers for a couple of years now, the Opawa / St Martins Farmers Market is a popular market with locals and those from a little further afield. Raw food, fresh baked bread, free range eggs and fresh fruit and vegetables, you name it! …
Smash Palace takes the new Christchurch random aesthetic and makes it comfortable and cool. A bus serving as a bar in a formerly empty lot? Hey, why not. Re-appropriated doors acting as tables, outdoor heating, motorbike workshop and an on-site greasy spoon give the site a sense of permanence …
With a reputation for good quality food, wine and service, Tiffanys Restaurant is a fine dining restaurant with understated glamour. Perched next to the Avon River, Tiffanys is housed in a Tudor-style building appropriately named “Tudor House” …
Not to be confused with Jungle Patrol in New Brighton, Jungle Cup is a central city café offering good coffee and fine food. As the name suggests, this café takes its inspiration from the jungle …
The word “eccentric” doesn’t begin to describe this unconventional, Euro trash bar in Lyttelton. The bamboo bar, garishly sequined stools, doll head lamps hanging from the ceiling and more peculiar curios to throw a stick at, Wunderbar attracts an eclectic mix of Christchurch’s freaks, geeks, bogans, squares, hipsters and suits …
Tucked up in the suburb of Waltham, Aji Chocolateria and International Grocery is a little taste of the exotic, offering delicious servings of hot chocolate in an inspired space …
With its grungy good looks and innovative features, Revival is a low-key inner-city bar with a good live music scene and hip, young staff. As its name suggests, this place is big into renewal and rebirth …
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