Onetangi packs sixteen places to eat into a beachside stretch, from family-friendly The Heke and beachfront Charlie Farley's to vineyard lunches at Casita Miro and Tantalus Estate.
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Pubs and bars · Onetangi · $$
★ 4.8 from 947 Google reviews
You can lose a whole afternoon on these four acres without moving far from your table, starting with lunch under the trees and finishing with a beer flight, a whisky tasting and a turn in one of the golf simulator bays.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi · $$
★ 4.2 from 2,107 Google reviews
With your feet still sandy from Onetangi Beach, you cross The Strand and settle in at a table that looks straight back out over the water, because that view is the whole reason this place has been part of the island since 1987.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi
★ 4.3 from 1,594 Google reviews
The driveway climbs off Onetangi Road between vines and olive trees, and it finishes on a hillside veranda looking across a valley where horses graze on the far slope.
Mediterranean · Onetangi · $$
★ 4.7 from 675 Google reviews
You climb the hill from Onetangi Beach, turn into Brown Road where it forks into the vineyard, and find a Spanish restaurant with Gaudi-style mosaics on the walls, looking over 4.2 hectares of vines to the village and the sea.
Onetangi · $$
★ 4.4 from 992 Google reviews
You step off the bus at Onetangi and there it is, a glass-walled dining room looking straight out over the sand and surf of Onetangi Beach, with the sea right in front of your table.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi
★ 4.6 from 703 Google reviews
The driveway off Onetangi Road climbs through vines into a courtyard where a Michelin-starred restaurant sits above Alibi Brewing Co., so you can move from a cellar door tasting to a long lunch without leaving the estate.
Onetangi · $
★ 4.6 from 621 Google reviews
You get off the bus at Onetangi, cross The Strand, and there's the beach in front of you and a white-clothed terrace between you and the sand.
Winery restaurants · Onetangi
★ 4.7 from 489 Google reviews
You climb the drive off Onetangi Road and Waiheke falls away into vines and olive trees, with the original farm goatshed now the cellar door.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi
★ 4.4 from 611 Google reviews
The bus from the ferry drops you right at the gate, and before you've ordered a thing you're looking at vines, a playground and an archery range laid out across the lawn.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi
★ 4.9 from 109 Google reviews
Rock'n'roll street art, waterfalls running through the gardens and a deck looking out over the vines: this Onetangi Road cellar door has never done the traditional tasting room thing.
Fish and chips · Onetangi · $
★ 4.3 from 80 Google reviews
Onetangi Beach has its own store a few steps back from the sand at the end of Fourth Avenue, and it's where a Waiheke day tends to start: coffee and something from the cabinet before your swim, fish and chips once you're out of the water.
Onetangi
★ 4.9 from 35 Google reviews
Rows of olive trees, a wide courtyard and a low, modern room looking out over the grounds: that's what you walk into at the end of Gordons Road, where Allpress has built a bistro beside its groves and tasting room.
Pubs and bars · Onetangi
★ 4.6 from 43 Google reviews
The brewery has been making small batch beer in a shed out the back since 1998, when craft beer wasn't yet a thing on Waiheke, and you drink it a few steps from where it's brewed, on an estate that also grows grapes and runs a restaurant.
Japanese and sushi · Onetangi · $
★ 4.6 from 38 Google reviews
A panko-fried tube of rice, filled and rolled tight so you can eat it one-handed on the way to the sand: that's the hand roll, and it's what has you pulling over on Onetangi Road.
Fish and chips · Onetangi
★ 4.2 from 44 Google reviews
What this Onetangi Road counter does best is fish and chips wrapped in paper, and you can eat them a short walk from the beach.
Bakeries · Onetangi
★ 5.0 from 6 Google reviews
The sign says local, organic, handmade, and that's the whole story at this small bakery on Totara Road in Onetangi, where two bakers who grew up on this kind of bread turn out German-style sourdough loaves, pretzels, cheese sticks, cakes and pastries from the kitchen.
Most of it is along Onetangi Road, where Stonyridge Vineyard and Te Motu Vineyard pour Bordeaux-style reds, Wild Estate has archery and lawn games, and SOHO Family Vineyards does long deck lunches over the vines.
Three Seven Two and Ki Māha both put the beach in the room, and you can walk off the sand to Beach Store for coffee and a fish burger or Sushinesa for handrolls. Onetangi fish & chip co is the spot for blue cod and chips, Bistro Allpress does lunch among the olive groves, and Mia Yeast opens Friday and Sunday for organic sourdough. Charlie Farley's has been on The Strand since 1987, pouring beer and serving chowder a few steps from the sand. The Heke is the family-lunch spot, with play equipment and a brewery, and Waiheke Island Brewery pours small batch ales in a beer garden out the back of Wild Estate. Eatout has checked all sixteen listings, so you can pick by view, vineyard or takeaway.
You can walk off the sand to Charlie Farley's on The Strand, Ki Māha across from the beach, Three Seven Two across the road, or Beach Store on Fourth Avenue for coffee and a fish burger. Onetangi fish & chip co sits a short walk away on Onetangi Road, and Sushinesa does handrolls from its roadside shack.
Book ahead for the vineyards and the beachfront restaurants, especially on weekends and for groups, since The Heke, Casita Miro, Ki Māha, Three Seven Two and Charlie Farley's all take bookings. Stonyridge Vineyard says to book for lunch, and bigger tables at Ki Māha get set menus. Walk-ins are fine at The Heke, while Beach Store and the takeaways are counter service.
Plenty of Onetangi places open on Mondays, including The Heke, Charlie Farley's, Stonyridge Vineyard, Casita Miro, Ki Māha, Te Motu Vineyard, Wild Estate, Beach Store and Bistro Allpress. Onetangi fish & chip co is open seven days and has the Open Mondays tag, and Tantalus Estate, Three Seven Two and Waiheke Island Brewery aren't open that day.
