Beautiful food in a gorgeous setting, with impeccable service. We did a day trip from Christchurch hoping for something special, and it was exactly that. Lovely wander around the garden and gift shop after lunch. Thank you for the fabulous destination - it was worth it (yes, even with ridiculous fuel costs these days)!

Came at 2:59pm (kitchen closes at 3pm), we were greatly surprised when our waitress insisted the kitchen remain open for our last order of lunch before closing for dinner. What a nice gesture! The food which was served tastes fresh and delicious. A lot of the ingredients are produced locally on the premises with a lot of care also going into each dish. We ordered the foccacia for 2, roasted vegetables, soup of the day and chips. The soup and roasted veggies were absolutely amazing. The crunchy bread and the soup paired perfectly. None of the veggies were over done on the roasted vegetable dish (could tell it was all just thrown into the over together at the same time.) Great portion sizes as well as flavour. The bread was slightly disappointing compared to the other dishes but the humus and dukkah dip was more than tasted and went well with the bread. Would definitely recommend for a lunch/dinner stop on the way down the coast of NZ! We ordered the sour plum and the sour chocolate cake take away- we were a bit surprised they gave us cream when it was advertised to have ice cream (understand you can take away ice cream...) however it was a little disappointing to not see either a larger slice or slightly cheaper pricing to account for this. That being said, could not fault the flavour of the cake at all