The Brantry Restaurant

6 Reviews on “The Brantry Restaurant”

• Lovegoodfood

  Travelling through Taupo for 2 nights as part if our NZ travels and made a last minute booking for the Christmas buffet lunch. We loved every part of our day here. Service was wonderful, with cheery staff and prompt attention. The food was plentiful and delicious – my bar was low given it was buffet style but there was not a Bain Marie in sight, only beautifully prepared platters of food that were replenished frequently and so good! Though not cheap, we left feeling complete satisfied (ok, stuffed!) and were even treated to a take home box of Xmas treats such as gingerbread, xmas cake snd rumballs. A lovely atmosphere and great food – a really happy surprise on our Christmas out of town!

  March 25, 2020, 8:01 am

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• RM

  A very enjoyable meal with 3 excellent and attentive waitresses. I had the steak, my husband the lamb neck (boneless) and we enjoyed them both very much. With 1 course for $30 , 2 for $45 and 3 for $55 it is a good deal.My comment would be that the desert ( chocolate torte) and perhaps the entree( fish cake) could be just a little bigger portion wise. However I would recommend the Bantry to anyone wanting a nice leisurely meal in upmarket surroundings. Would gibe 4 and half stars if I could.Thanks to Kris and Terry From Catellis motel up the road for recommending that we went there.It made for a great birthday celebration.

  April 18, 2014, 3:38 pm

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• Rhodri Thomas

  I was a little nervous after booking when I read the previous review but everything was amazing. My girlfriend and I regularly dine out at some of the best restaurants in Auckland but the Brantry had service to beat the best of them!The food was of a very high standard but not at all pretentious – good honest quality food. The pricing was fantastic at $45 for 2 courses or $55 for three! For the quality of the food this was great. The staff were very attentive, ensuring everything was as we wanted and making sure we always had drinks. My only criticism would be that the wine list did not have many varieties available by the glass but what they did have was nice.

  November 5, 2013, 4:31 pm

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• Peter Black

  What have they done! We dined here last year and it was wonderful, but something has changed as our experience here this year was not good.The nice wooden seats with the blanket draped over the back were replaced by cheap plastic outdoor chairs, the waitstaff didn’t introduce themselves and just gestured us toward our table and i don’t know what radio station was playing but it certainly wasn’t the pleasant dining music we remembered from last time. Despite it being late in the evening there were several flies buzzing around and on the walls which was unexpected for restaurant of this quality and this time of year. The cutlery was also water stained and quite scratched.Both my partner and I ordered the lamb as they were voted as a top lamb and beef restaurant the previous year. The waiter knew little of the menu and was no help at all in selecting out dish. The two staff we asked about wine matches to the food clearly just made up their answer on the spot! It would have been better if they just admitted they didn’t know and ask someone else for help!The wine came pre-pored so we weren’t sure if we even got the wines we ordered which was unusual compared to our previous visit. We ordered the squid as an entrée. It had a really weird smell and was very chewy. Not like any squid i’d had before so i only had a few pieces before giving up on it. The lamb we ordered for the mains tasted very good but it and the vegetables was not up to the standard of our previous dining experience. Both of our cuts (we ordered two different lamb dishes) were very fatty. Our desserts were very poor in quality and still had big clumps of baking soda visible in the cakes!We weren’t very impressed with the delivery of the food. The plates were just dumped on our table without a word. The bread rolls accompanying the meal were also stone cold which is quite different to the nice warm homemade bread rolls we got here last time.I guess the biggest let down for us was towards the end of the evening when one of the waitstaff could clearly be heard telling a fart joke to customers at another table! I’m sorry, this is not appropriate behavior for a restaurant. In general the service as very poor and we couldn’t wait to get out of there.We expected better and won’t return or recommend any longer. Sorry.

  October 10, 2013, 3:19 am

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• Penny

  We enjoyed a family celebration, with 26 of us form the ages of 6 through to senior years. The private rooms were ideal for family pictures and general milling, great art work too. Our host for the evening could’t have done more to enable the night to run smoothly, the service was definitively superior, fully attentive and intuitive service. In fact everyone spoke very highly of the experience. The food didn’t disappoint us either, with differing dietary restrictions accounted for. The meals were served promptly (they all came at the same time pretty much thanks to 3 staff ) WOW. The food was divine! We all thoroughly enjoyed the evening. I can’t sing their praises high enough. I will make every effort to go back again if I am in Taupo. Incredible service is so rare to see these days, so wonderful to have experienced staff along with a top notch menu.

  October 16, 2012, 9:11 am

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• Victoria

  Went to dinner with my husband for my birthday 25 Jan 2011, service could not have been better, chose Taupo Acacia 2009 wine which was superb. We then had the duo of pork entree and the venison for our mains and the food was divine followed by great coffee, unfortunately could not fit in dessert but next time we will see. Defintely recommend.

  April 26, 2011, 2:37 am

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