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Food & Wine

Tantalise your taste-buds and enrich your experience of New Zealand here with us on the Otago Peninsula. Let us entertain and dine you with the best of New Zealand’s seasonal fresh produce, always sourced locally and organic where possible.   

Summer Dining October to April

We have a wonderful location to enjoy your evening meal and want to offer guests an opportunity to sample our great southern bounty, foods sourced with the season, grown and harvested by local suppliers.  Kaimata Retreat's seasonal chef presents flair and passion for quintessentially New Zealand cooking with a wild and indigenous emphasis.  

Summer 2011/12 warmly welcomes chef and host Scott Bickley. Trained in the restaurants of south east Queenslands sunshine coast, Australia, Scott 'has been back home, the mainland 'south island' since 2007. He has a passion for New Zealand back country, the great outdoors and the flvours of wild foods.

"We're very lucky in New Zealand to have some of the best quality wild foods available from our mountains, lakes, oceans and rivers. My passion in cooking really lays on these food types and being able to serve it to our guests at Kaimata Retreat is a pleasure"
  

• We recommend pre-booking dinner for the night of arrival and specifying any special or dietry requirements or allergies at time of booking. 
• Foods are seasonally sourced and menus are created fresh daily. There is a 5.30pm cut-off for dinner orders for that day, please confirm ahead of arrival.
• If you book a room, self-catering is not available as our chef works the open plan kitchen facilities.  Guests either dine at the retreat or Portobello Village a 12 minute drive over gravel road.  We are happy to provide return transfers.
• If an exclusive-use reservation, guests may elect to self-cater or alternatively, pre-book your chef

3-course Chef prepared dinner NZ$99.00 inc GST per person.
Includes pre-dinner canape and glass of NZ wine or aperitif.

A gourmet picnic hamper is a great summer lunch option granting freedom to find a special spot on the Otago Peninsula. Complete with picnic blanket, tea and coffee thermos, fresh baking, filled rolls, fruit, cheese and crackers.

NZ$35.00 inc GST per person.
Beverages additional.

 

Winter Dining May to September

Our executive chef has been farewelled for the winter months.  Visitors to the Otago Peninsula decrease as the climate cools and wildlife depart to other climes.  

• The retreat is self-catering for room and exclusive-use reservations over this season. 
• All day tea, coffee, fresh fruit and homemade treats are available from the retreat kitchen.
• The kitchen offers basic food stock such as dried herbs and spices, cooking oil and implements.
• If you would like to provide a shopping list at time of booking, we will have your foods waiting on arrival.
• Please enquire as to chef availability at the time of booking as we can organise with prior notice. 

   3-course Chef prepared dinner NZ$99.00 inc GST per person.
  Includes pre-dinner canape and glass of NZ wine or aperitif.

  See our sample dinner menu (PDF).

Wine and Beer

Kaimata Retreat is pleased to offer a small boutique selection of New Zealand wines handpicked to compliment the special dishes we offer.  A range of New Zealand beers together with a choice of splits and juices are also available.

    
_{"Kaimata is a celebration to all senses! it is nice to meet down to earth locals
who want to share their love of their land". Bobbi & Richard, Sydney, Australia}
 

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