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Wellington Restaurants and Wellington Dining
(Wellington, North Island, New Zealand NZ)



Wellington contains a wealth of restaurants, cafés, eateries and dining options, both in and around Wellington's Central Business District (CBD). With many new restaurants opening all the time in Wellington and nearby areas on the south coast of New Zealand's North Island, restaurants and cafés in Wellington are quite diverse. Wellington is often referred to as New Zealand's coffee capital and Wellington is full of stylish, trendy coffee shops and a thriving street café culture.

Dining venues in Wellington range from bar snacks to fastfood restaurants, café lunches to gourmet dinners in top restaurants situated in Wellington city centre. Courtenay Place is home to the largest concentration of restaurants and eateries in Wellington, together with nearby Cuba Street. These areas of Wellington feature an enormous variety of restaurants to suit all budgets and dining tastes, including ethic restaurants, Turkish restaurants, Asian restaurants and French restaurants, with many lively nightspots located nearby. Courtenay Place is home to Wellington's 'Restaurant Row', with some of the most popular restaurants in Wellington standing side by side.




Many of Wellington's inner-city suburbs feature some extremely popular restaurants, such as Allen Street, Blair Street, Cuba Street and Dixon Street. Other important restaurants in Wellington are located around Cable Street, Majoribanks Street, Pirie Street, Taranaki Street, Tory Street, Victoria Street, Vivian Street and Willis Street.

All kinds of cuisine can be found in Wellington's vast array of busy restaurants, which include many exceptional ethnic Malaysian and Indian restaurants around Wellington city centre. Wellington has long been one of New Zealand's most cosmopolitan cities and eating out in Wellington's many restaurants is always a major attraction for both locals and visitors in Wellington. One of the most popular restaurants in Wellington is the Skyline restaurant on Upland Road, which is situated at the top of a tall skyscraper and provides spectacular views of central Wellington and good dining facilities.

The majority of restaurants in Wellington are always happy to accept dining reservations for both lunch and dinner and it is often a sensible idea to call in advance, so that your dining place is guaranteed at your chosen restaurant.

Wellington Restaurants and Dining: Opening Hours - Wellington, North Island, New Zealand NZ
Most Wellington restaurants, cafés, eateries and general dining venues usually open all week, between 07:00 to 22:00 and often stay open until much later, although some restaurants in Wellington do close on either Sunday or Monday evenings.

Wellington Restaurants and Dining: Lunch in Wellington - Wellington, North Island, New Zealand NZ
Lunch in the Wellington area ranges from sumptuous buffet meals at fashionable waterfront restaurants around Wellington's harbour areas, to simple, fresh sandwiches readily available from one of Wellington's many popular sandwich bars or food stalls in the city centre, which often sell a huge range of freshly-prepared bagels and paninis. Also, the many food courts in Wellington's numerous shopping centres and malls are filled with good restaurants, providing an inexpensive lunch alternative.

Lunch in Wellington is generally eaten between the hours of 12:00 to 14:00, and other dining choices for lunch in Wellington include a host of fastfood restaurants and outlets, local burger bars, local fish and chips, pizza takeaways and a number of tasty vegetarian choices.

Wellington Restaurants and Dining: Dinner in Wellington - Wellington, North Island, New Zealand NZ
Many locals, visitors and tourists in Wellington, and other nearby areas of New Zealand's North Island, regularly dine out in the evening, with Wellington restaurants serving dinner between 18:00 to 22:00 and often later. There are an enormous selection of world-class restaurants, brasseries, cafés, bistros and popular eateries in the city of Wellington, and with so many different types of cuisine of offer, choosing where to dine in Wellington is never easy.

 
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