Restaurants in Rotorua || Buffet Restaurants Rotorua

If you're visiting Rotorua and want to learn about the best places to eat, our restaurant guide is perfect for any budget.

There are a lot of awesome must do activities in Rotorua but you'll also be spoiled for choice when it comes to top places to eat in Rotorua; there are so many delicious places to try! Many people hear all about our famous Eat Street when planning things to do in Rotorua but we wanted to let you in on our other lesser known favorite local spots.

Rotorua Restaurants - Trying to decide where to eat in the evening must be hard for travelers because they can often be seen wandering along Eat Street, a popular restaurant cum cafe area encompassing what was once a road. Restaurants in Rotorua 

They stop, look at the menu displayed outside a restaurant, move on, stop, look, move on. It seems to take quite a while. Maybe we can shortcut that with a small selection specially chosen.

Despite the bright, clear winter's day, it's difficult to see what's going on. Amid a cloud of sulphuric steam I can just glimpse a crisp white chef's hat bobbing around, its owner hastily manoeuvring a heavy wooden lid, then several blankets, from a box positioned over a vent in the earth. Restaurants in Rotorua 

He retrieves several foil containers, pops them on the back of a golf cart and disappears again into the mist. We meet a little later in a marquee overlooking Pohutu, the largest active geyser in the southern hemisphere, to eat our freshly extracted Rotorua-style hangi.

As far as food is concerned, Rotorua has always done things a bit differently, starting with this variation on the hangi that the local Te Arawa iwi adopted, along with the custom of putting food in a kete then boiling it in the bubbling sulphuric pools. Restaurants in Rotorua 

Not so long ago, finding even a decent cup of coffee here was a struggle. Things have improved a little, but the selection is still limited and there is a fairly flexible interpretation of the word “service.”