Guidebook for Christchurch

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Guidebook for Christchurch

Food Scene

Excellent breakfasts, lunches, hot drinks and bread
36 locals recommend
Vic's Cafe
132 Victoria St
36 locals recommend
Excellent breakfasts, lunches, hot drinks and bread
Excellent Asian and other fusion dishes.
42 locals recommend
Spice Paragon
76 Victoria St
42 locals recommend
Excellent Asian and other fusion dishes.
Healthy, nutritional food and good coffee Monday through Friday from morning until around 3pm most days with abbreviated hours on Saturdays.
9 locals recommend
Whole Cafe
100 Bealey Ave
9 locals recommend
Healthy, nutritional food and good coffee Monday through Friday from morning until around 3pm most days with abbreviated hours on Saturdays.
Good food and excellent desserts except they're no longer at 114 Peterborough Street. Their new location is at the corner of Bealey and Park Terrace on the north side of Bealey.
36 locals recommend
Strawberry Fare
15 Bealey Ave
36 locals recommend
Good food and excellent desserts except they're no longer at 114 Peterborough Street. Their new location is at the corner of Bealey and Park Terrace on the north side of Bealey.
Good Thai food
15 locals recommend
Keo Thai Restaurant
123 Papanui Rd
15 locals recommend
Good Thai food
Not your typical Tex-Mex food but still decent kai
86 locals recommend
Mexicano's
131 Victoria St
86 locals recommend
Not your typical Tex-Mex food but still decent kai
Good Italian food made by an Italian family utilising their Mother's reciptes.
12 locals recommend
Venuti
791 Colombo St
12 locals recommend
Good Italian food made by an Italian family utilising their Mother's reciptes.
Friday evenings are a good time to sample some of the local cuisine often with an international flavour
73 locals recommend
Cathedral Square
Cathedral Square
73 locals recommend
Friday evenings are a good time to sample some of the local cuisine often with an international flavour

Arts & Culture

Excellent introduction to some of New Zealand's indigenous art and local artists
304 locals recommend
Christchurch Art Gallery (Te Puna o Waiwhetu)
312 Montreal St
304 locals recommend
Excellent introduction to some of New Zealand's indigenous art and local artists
has some interesting exhibits from time to time
390 locals recommend
Canterbury Museum
66 Rolleston Ave
390 locals recommend
has some interesting exhibits from time to time

Drinks & Nightlife

close by
128 locals recommend
Christchurch Casino
30 Victoria St
128 locals recommend
close by

Parks & Nature

Check out the botanical gardens, rose garden and peace bell
252 locals recommend
North Hagley Park
14 Riccarton Ave
252 locals recommend
Check out the botanical gardens, rose garden and peace bell

Sightseeing

7 locals recommend
The Commons
70 Kilmore St
7 locals recommend
150 locals recommend
Margaret Mahy Playground
Armagh Street
150 locals recommend

Shopping

Our biggest and best department store in Christchurch
52 locals recommend
Ballantynes
Cashel Street
52 locals recommend
Our biggest and best department store in Christchurch

Essentials

34 locals recommend
New World Durham Street
175 Durham St S
34 locals recommend