Hurunui Hotel
1224 Karaka Road,
State Highway 7,
Hurunui 7385
Phone: 03-314 2207
www.thehurunuihotel.co.nz/
https://www.facebook.com/hurunuihotel/
It is described as: The Hurunui Hotel has been serving the community for over 150 years. Built in 1868 it has the longest continuous alcohol license in New Zealand. Located on State Highway 7, it is the perfect place to stop and rest on your journey. Cold beer, wine from our own winery, amazing food and the best coffee around!'
It certainly has seen some changes in its time - some emforced from the earthquakes. It has a new owner/manager - so we were keen on trying them out for a stay and meal!
We ordered the garlic bread and it came in good time. The artistic arangment did not suffer in transit! As you can see - it is/was a ciabatta bread sliced and liberally sprinkled with herbs. It could have had a teeny weeny bit more garlic flavour. As there was three of us we had 2 slices each wich was plenty - perhaps one to many for just two people?!
Crusty crust and soft fleshy inards - just the way we like it. The condiments - needed a explanation - although we had fun guessing them - the far right defintly had honey in it, while the far left was - we think - a garlic infused oil?! The middle is your standard pesto! Nice additions.
Sadly the timber detracted - especially as we found later that the served hamburgers came on the same platter/timber type (one thing fits all?!) , and as many previous eaters had used knife's to cut their bits of meat etc . . - there were some deep grooves . . . Pity - if this had been on a white porcelan type plate it would have rated very highly indeed.
| Presentation | 4 out of 5 |
| Quantity | 3 out of 5 |
| Taste: | 4 out of 5 |
| Quality | 4 out of 5 |
| Overall score: | 15 (out of poss 20) |
