Dining At The Lodge

The enjoyment of food, wine and congenial company are an integral part of the Bay of Islands Lodge experience.

Our cuisine could be perhaps best described as 'contemporary New Zealand', an innovative mix of rejuvenated traditional favourites, with some of the ingredients and inspirations drawn from European and Asian countries, prepared and served in a refreshing, down to earth, unpretentious way.

The emphasis is on the freshest and seasonally best - such as seafood caught locally and often on the day, spray free / organic vegetables and fruit from the market gardens of nearby Kerikeri, and free range / grass fed meat and poultry from the surrounding district.

Dinner

Dinners are optional, but highly recommended, one could almost say 'a must do'!

Dinners are 3-4 course affairs, accompanied by fine New Zealand and Australian wines. It's a set menu, designed around guest's preferences, with any dietary needs or likes readily taken into consideration. Dinner attire is smart-casual, with the meal served traditionally in a communal setting, enjoyed in the congenial company of other guests. Cost: NZ$95 per person inclusive of dinner wines.

Breakfast

Consisting of variety of cereals, compotes, fresh seasonal fruit, yoghurts, freshly squeezed orange and other juices, the best coffee from our Italian 'Saeco' espresso machine, a wide choice of teas, hot chocolate, and for the true continental - a selection of breads, cold meats and cheeses. As well as cooked favourites - both savoury and sweet - from the traditional bacon and eggs, omelettes of your choice and pancakes, to daily specials that may include eggs benedict, smoked fish cakes, nasi goreng, hash-browns... or you may have a favourite of your own. Continental and cooked breakfast is included in the tariff.

Picnic Lunches

Either 'gourmet-elaborate' or 'simple' picnic lunches are also available on request.

Your hosts,
Peter and Glennis Meier,
prior to coming to
New Zealand owned and operated, for 19 years, the renowned and award winning 'Casuarina Restaurant
and Country Inn'
in Australia's famous
Hunter Valley wine region.

Our motto was then,
and still is
"the greatness of food
lies in its simplicity".