Beautiful garden setting with great food and friendly service. Delicious cheese scone and excellent…read morecoffee. Gorgeous on a sunny day and warm and cosy inside with the fire on a cold one.

Had salmon, soup , tea and coffee. The food in particular was delish! Very fresh fish, also had a…read morenice tea selection. Top marks all around!

Beautiful stop to get a flat white while on your roadie from Christchurch to Wanaka or other parts…read moreof South Island. We took a bathroom break but ended up staying for a flat white and the view! It is a quiet cafe with a goat in the back, super cute but be careful of putting your finger in the fence to pet him, he sticks his head out to get grass on the other side and will bite anything in sight. Also tip: if you order take away it is a $0.50 NZD charge for takeaway cup even if you bring your own, plus the wood cabin dining room is so nice so take a load off and enjoy the stop.

Nice spot to stretch your legs and have some coffee while driving in NZ. We passed this place and…read morecame back since it looked cozy. Got a coffee and a hot chocolate, both of which were good. The seating area is very cute and the backyard has some outdoor seating overlooking green hills with lots of sheep grazing on them.

Excellent coffee! The blueberry muffin was very fresh. The pleasant atmosphere and nice outside…read moresitting area

Awesome local dive that offers good burgers, sides, drinks, and breakfast specialities. The…read morebreakfast scones were excellent, we came back for lunch the next day and were not disappointed. This place is a must see in Geraldine, NZ.

Fresh ingredients, great food, friendly staff, overall a nice place to stop off and eat after being…read moreon the road. Exactly what we were looking for!

Love the Mocha and the bounce house for the kiddos. Can't wait to go back and have another coffee.read more

Food, coffee and service were excellent!! It was busy but still able to get a table inside!!read more

BUSY brunch spot on the main drive in Lake Tekapo but probably the one eatery with the best…read morequality. THANKFULLY, they give you an overestimation of wait times, at least for food, my Croque Madame (19.5 NZD) coming out very fast to the picnic bench just outside. FRESH ingredients and despite only having 1 egg, the free range egg was actually quite big with a mostly runny yolk. I did wish there was more bechamel sauce perhaps because it was a little dry. I practically almost finished this before the boy was able to fetch my Flat White for me, the baristas positively inundated by in-cafe orders alongside walk-up window ones. It was already quite crowded at 9AM on a Friday, so VERY popular, but with reason!

Cute little spot, lots of 80s music playing and pictures of Sydney Harbour and two of New York on…read morethe left side walls. Pictures of landscapes and on the right hand side walls. There are booths on both sides and tables in the middle. The servers use electronica order system which is nice so that your order gets to the kitchen right away in case they get sidetracked on their way back to place the order. We started with the battered onion rings which were tasty. It was served with a thin homemade tasting buttermilk ranch dressing. It all needed a little bit of salt but they were tasty. I better have had the Cuban sandwich which I was a little concerned about the flavor of the pork which she did admit seemed a little warmed over flavor, but other than that it was tasty. Since we had already had the fried onion rings they let him substitute fries that would've come with the sandwich for a small side salad. I ordered the special which is also on the regular menu Thai chicken red curry. It had a little too much starch, not enough coconut or ginger or lemongrass flavor but the chicken breast was very tender and the white rice was nice and soft to help soak up the sauce. The Thai slaw served on the side was fresh and flavorful, with a hint of peanut butter and nice plump edamames. The place felt very American in nature both in the menu and in the decor. One thing that they should do is that they need to bring out the serving utensils when you order or sit down as we had to go up to the counter and request those after our onion rings arrived. They also really need to offer larger napkins. It's hard to eat fried onion rings with no utensils and the absolutely tiny little napkins that are on the table in those dispensers. Even the napkins that were rolled around the fork and knife were too small. Other than that the service was pleasant and the ambience was as well. It was not culinary greatness, however we would return as it is a safe bet and not much is open here in the evenings.

Surprisingly the best food we found was in the astrology museum, must gets are the cheese scone,…read moreflat white, and the blueberry muffin. The Astro cafe is next to the grocery store next to the holiday park at Lake Tekapo. Inside it is a cool cafe with the large brass telescope next to the dining area. I thought the food was excellent and arguably the best cafe we went to in New Zealand. I also visited the Astro Cafe on the top of the mountain but there is a fee to take a drive up to the top or its a 1 hour hike, plus I think the food/flat white at the bottom of the mountain was better. I think that this cafe is a great stop for breakie and worth a visit for the flat whites.

Snacks with a world class view. You don't drive up that mountain for the cuisine but if you are…read morepeckish they have a selection of sweets, drinks/coffees and sandos that will satisfy.

Hands down, the best savoury scones in NZ! A great stop for those heading north to Christchurch.read more

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 !!

Of all the places on Earth that would have every right to suck, this has got to be high on the…read morelist. Its patio looks directly at Aoraki with nothing but waving grasses to intervene, and you'd most likely stop there to eat after more stunning views of the Southern Alps reflected in Lake Matheson. So basically they could serve slop and everyone would probable be fine with it. Instead, Matheson Cafe fed me the best salmon benedict of my life! It didn't have to. But it did. Their salmon, surely local, was hot-smoked, ridiculously plentiful, and incredibly flavorful. They put pesto in a tidy pile on the eggy, lemony hollandaise, which sounded weird when I ordered it, but it was made mainly of peas and fresh herbs and was green and tangy. There was a bagel on the bottom instead of an English muffin, which could have gotten way too bready, but they sliced it thin and so it just soaked up much of the sauce and remained a sturdy enough base without getting soggy. The only thing that wasn't perfect was one of the two eggs was poached too hard and the yolk didn't spill out. Normally that's a benedict's death knell, but here the rest of it was so good I didn't even care.

This place is an excellent view of the two main mountain peaks. The food is really good as well…read more Nice ambiance. Excellent hiking trails.