Delightful breakfast at Unknown Chapter. Love how the owners have brought the outside in with their…read morelovely bistro. Giant gorgeous and delicious breakfast platters. Lots of sides to go as well.

We are visiting from the US and loved this breakfast spot! Great service vibes and prices…read more Definitely recommend stopping by

This is a lovely cafe, situated in Tai Tapu just out of Christchurch. It has beautiful grounds and…read moreis a very relaxed place. The cafe, inside a homestead, is spacious but the serving area is relatively small. There's delicious, home baked food in the cabinet and coffee is good. It's very nice. I wouldn't hesitate to come again.

We have just had a Sunday lunch out in Tai-Tapu Raspberry Cafe, great food and great service and…read morewell priced! The BLT sandwiches looked pretty good, however I can really recommend the warm Lamb Salad with tzatziki sauce! GF options are well catered for, as well as DF and Vegetarian. The younger children enjoyed playing on the monkey bars outside. All up, a great family lunch cafe !!

This is one hopping place on the weekend evening!…read more We arrived without a reservation and they still found us a table straight away. Had there not been room they would have us sit at the bar. Great service throughout the entire experience from start to finish. The restaurant itself is small and cozy. The menu is the perfect size with plenty of choices yet not overwhelming. We all chose a different dish and each one was spot on delicious! We enjoyed our experience and would love to return for breakfast one day.

1. Excellent food choices and a wide variety from vegan, gf, meat, seafood, land-based meats and…read morewide variety of veggies and meal choices. 2. Great service quality. 3. Good bar / wines. Only negative is that service was linear so those arriving first typically got their meals, deserts based on the queue. There were opportunities to serve desert to those who had ordered and finished main meals well ahead of other tables who started first but were slower to eat.

I've had a very enjoyable lunch here. It's open every day so I dropped in after wandering around…read morethe city shops on Saturday morning. I chose a table, reviewed the menu and ordered at the counter. My Mediterranean style Omelette came fairly quickly and although it looked questionable it was fabulous. I ordered the mushroom version and that was a good decision. The dish came with a slice of bread and small salad. The whole thing was delicious - generous and very good. That's why this place is popular. Service is good too. Thank you.

So glad we tried this place! The service was great and the food was excellent…read more I had the mushroom mattar and Hubby had a chicken madras. The main courses come with rice, and we also ordered 2 naan. Way too much food, and if we weren't traveling, we would have taken it home and had it for lunch today. If you are in Christchurch and fancy some great Indian food, give this place a try!

I'm new to Christchurch and one thing i like to do when moving or staying somewhere new for a…read moreperiod of time is find a good Indian. I'm English and guess what, our national dish is Indian. So there you go. Anyway, I digress. My new flatmate said this place "was" pretty good but hasn't being their recently. So I checked it out and ordered a takeaway, 30 minutes later I had picked up and unpacked it. I ordered the Tikka Masala, my go to when trying a new Indian. First thing that struck me, was there was a LOT of chicken in the takeaway container. Bulging full of chicken. Some people would say yay, lots of chicken, but a LOT of chicken where there is more meat than sauce is not a good thing in a takeaway. It generally indicates cheap bad quality meat. As it turns out it wasn't a good thing, it was dry and the whole dish was lukewarm at best. Bear in mind I waited a few minutes in the restaurant before picking up so assumed it has just being prepared - so piping hot. The sauce itself was lack-lustre in flavour and I was left wanting. I ended up having soup and binned the takeway. Talking with some locals, it turns out that Indian Sumner used to be really good but these reports were from people who haven't being in a while. I'll give it one more go and actually eat in the restaurant and see how it is, but in this particular instance I can not recommend this place based on this one experience.

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This place was so tasty! They made a great flat white coffee, but the avocado toast was amazing! It…read moreis a little higher priced, but totally worth it. It was more of an undone type of avocado toast with seasonings, poached eggs, tomatoes, and some sort of tangy butter or aioli, I'm not sure. It was just so pleasing to the eye and tasty! I did have much more avocado left, so I wished it had a bit more bread but it was still a good amount of food. I would recommend, it seemed to be a busy place with a few tables inside and some outside seating. Also a great spot on regent street next to other shops.

Twenty Seven Steps - what a spot! Intimate space in a lovely location with great service, expansive…read morewine selection and they are happy to make you a tasty mocktail that suits your palate. Now... the food. Epic. Seasonal. Simple. Divine. I started with their marinated tomato salad which was fresh and flavorful. Entree was the steak with potato, onion rings and veggies - absolutely incredible. Naturally I had to save room for dessert and landed on the vanilla crème brûlée (though all the options sounded amazing). It came with fresh fruit and pistachio biscotti and was a great way to round out the meal. I would come back here again and again and again. Bravo!!

Very quaint bistro in Christchurch. The food, service, wine, and atmosphere were top notch. It's…read morelocated in a very hip area of the city, too. I would not hesitate to go back there some day.

A spot to meet Sumner locals. They are currently operating out of a trailer. Nevertheless, coffees…read moreand food are great and staff is outstanding. Watch the space they will soon move into a new location right behind the trailer.

As a coffee shop, this business surely makes good coffee just like you ordered it. The all day menu…read morecomes from a kitchen not located inside, perhaps from a related business. The food was so so, the English breakfast tea was not memorable and the service was non existent. If you're coming for coffee, have at it. Anything else, I'd recommend anywhere else.