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@booboo speaking of gumfields, the Matakohe Museum is worth the visit if you are in the area.
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@taniwharugby said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@booboo speaking of gumfields, the Matakohe Museum is worth the visit if you are in the area.
Do they still have the cafe across the road that sells those enormous burgers?
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Great Fish and Chips places
Lockies in Hampden. Best Blue Cod and Chips (I promise)
Kaiaua (as @crucial said) Order and then grab a table outside on near the water and enjoy.
Thames Bait shop F&C. Really good but views a bit average of a tidal mangrove estuary.
Tauranga Wharf fish and chips. Really good and popular. Sometimes they have greenbone/butter fish. If they have that, buy it! You can choose your pieces of fish. -
@gt12 said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Bovidae said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
For fish 'n' chips, anywhere near the sea. Thames is very good, as is Raglan wharf.
If you are travelling on SH3, stop in at Viands in Kihikihi for pies. They have won plenty of awards.
So this - Viands is awesome (hometown!) as is fish n chips at the wharf at Rags.
I personally think that the Kawhia fish shop is better though, if they have fresh snapper.
Agree about Kawhia too. We had fresh hapuka there and it was delicious. Mangonui was OK but didn't live up to the hype.
The best fish 'n' chips I've had in recent years was in Bluff. Blue cod.
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@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
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@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
I saw the words Massamum Curry gelato on there so I'm quite happy for Rush Munros to not be involved in that.
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@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
I have never been a big fan of Rush Munros.
Apart from looking for good quality vanilla IC occasionally as a base for something else I actually find that the good old Tip-Top classics are hard to beat. Hokey Pokey and Boysenberry Ripple are kiwi culinary classics.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
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Just realised that we are missing the important recommendations for coffee while on the move.
In years of travelling north from welly I have never had a bad coffee from the Streetwise cart at Sanson. Always well made.
If doing the Rotorua to Tauranga/Mount run then Okere Falls Store is worth a stop as well.
A recently discovered (for me) little place for a convent stop before/after the Desert Rd is this place in Turangi http://creeltackle.com/creel-cafe/
Small fishing tackle shop with a cafe inside. Has a really interesting vibe and good food/coffee -
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I think the Mangonui shop changed ownership a few years back, at which time things did change slightly.
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@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
Hatiest flavour ever!!!
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@Hooroo said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
Hatiest flavour ever!!!
I seem to like everyone's haziest flavour stuff. Turkish Delight, Cherry Ripe, R&R
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@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
I have never been a big fan of Rush Munros.
Dead to me ... and I hope CM lose for eternity, yes even to the Poo and BoP!
Not everything from the bay of Hawke is awesome
RM is nice ice cream but just doesn't have a wow factor that equates with its price or hype. A little too solid and not creamy enough for my tastes.
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@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
Hatiest flavour ever!!!
I seem to like everyone's haziest flavour stuff. Turkish Delight, Cherry Ripe, R&R
I no longer feel so bad, clearly your taste is at toilet level. You'd be a good friend to have around Xmas to eat all the Turkish Delights and Cherry Ripes. I've got about 6 of each in the vegetable drawers of my fridge and I'm actually unsure how long they've been there.
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Not everything from the bay of Hawke is awesome
Wash your mouth out with soap.
Although your comments over solidness suggests you've never actually had Rush Munros. -
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Not everything from the bay of Hawke is awesome
Wash your mouth out with soap.
Although your comments over solidness suggests you've never actually had Rush Munros.I've had plenty. One of the early places out of HB to showcase it in was in Cambridge when we had our restaurant there. They kept trying to supply it to us and kept giving me samples.
We only used our own recipe though and used to get it made by Kapiti (back before Fonterra brought them out). -
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
Hatiest flavour ever!!!
I seem to like everyone's haziest flavour stuff. Turkish Delight, Cherry Ripe, R&R
I do like Cherry Ripe and TD's.
My dad used to order R&R and in hindsight I think it must have been because no one would ask for a lick!
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Fish and chips - Leigh Eats.
Fresh fish from the fishery down the road still (I think - so very local) and fresh. Really good food all round. Great burgers and pies.Only problem is that the owner couldn't get staff (apparently) and is now only open until 4pm which pissed me off as I used to get F and C for dinner every now and again. Haven't been back since (only a couple of weeks and not sure how long I can hold that grudge).
Savan's bakery in Warkworth is an award winner for pies, and they are good. As has been pointed out you should avoid the Hill Street intersection if negotiating your way into town and leave the same way - even on a bike. It's fucking dangerous.
Snell's Beach to WW is a 6 minute drive, or last Sunday 1 hour 40. If on a bike not so bad, but expect traffic (well gridlock really) if you head north, or anywhere around Matakana, for the next 3 months.
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@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Hooroo said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Mustn't have wanted to venture into Hastings.@Toddy said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Best ice cream
Rush Munros in Hastings, you can have some real fish and chips nearby too.
My once a year road trip special is a cone of Rum and Raisin (single cone two scoops). Just always hits the spot on a sunny day.
Hatiest flavour ever!!!
I seem to like everyone's haziest flavour stuff. Turkish Delight, Cherry Ripe, R&R
RUM AND RAISIN is my all time favourite flavour.
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@Crucial said in The Best ... in New Zealand:
Not everything from the bay of Hawke is awesome
@Nepia said in The Best ... in New Zealand: Wash your mouth out with soap.
Although your comments over solidness suggests you've never actually had Rush Munros.>The worst ice-cream I have ever had in my life was in Napier and I defy anyone to enjoy it.
Was from Pacifica on Marine Parade (2018 New Zealand Restaurant of the Year)
Jeremy Rameka the Chef there is a bloody genius innovator. I eat there regularly although ironically I don't think its a patch on what is was a few years ago - awards notwithstanding.
Nowadays he only does a 5 course degustation but back in the day he did a'la'carte and a 10 course degustation. We had had the degustation with a couple of cocktails and wine. It was getting last. We got chatting to his (then) wife and Jeremy and 10 courses became 13 as he was "trying out a few taste experiments"
Everything was sublime until we got to his last experiment. Truffle ice cream. Made with truffle oil and truffle shavings.
WAAAAAAAAAY too heavy handed with the truffles. Almost inedible. I finished it because of politeness. We had scored three extra free courses but I really wished I hadn't. Wsa still repeating on me 24 hours later and almost soured the whole experience.
So - sorry. Not everything from the Bay is fantastic. Although much is. I'd happily move there except having been there about 50 times in the last decade I have decided its too insular. You see the same faces at every friggin event.
BTW Rush Munro's is massively over-hyped. Just like Mangonui fish and chips.
To return on topic though. You could easily argue for Hawkes Bay having best Farmers Market, Vineyards, Restaurants, Events, Beaches and Fly-Fishing just to name a few.
Trouble with a Best Of is nowadays its hard to find a place that doesn't juxtapose a great café, beach, river etc
Except Palmie of course
Awards — NZ Ice Cream Association
