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. The name comes from the first three digits of the Waiheke phone number, which tells you how local this place is, and it's been the island's long lunch address for years, open noon to nine Tuesday through Sunday and closed on Mondays.
Inside there's a big terracotta-tiled dining room with blond wood chairs, out front there's a deck looking straight over the water, and out back there's a sheltered garden bar under the pohutukawa. Bronwen Laight's menu is all about produce and what's in season, and leans on seafood from just down the road, so you might start with Te Matuku oysters, raw or baked with leek, cheese and bacon, then move on to a whole flounder or whatever the fish of the day happens to be, with duck, bavette steak and creamed pāua with pork belly on fry bread there for the meat eaters.
Book ahead, particularly over summer and at weekends, and ask for a table outside if the weather is on your side, because the view is half the reason you came. The 50A or 50B bus from the ferry drops you around the corner.
Written from 632 Google reviews, every one we could get, on 12 November 2026. Rated 4.6 from 621 Google reviews.
Three Seven Two is the Waiheke lunch people build a day around, and the view is only part of it. Fresh seafood, a proper wine list and staff who know both keep the regulars coming back, and first-timers leave saying the same thing.
Start with the Te Matuku oysters, raw or baked with leek, cheese and bacon, because they're the dish that comes up more than any other. The whole flounder is the other one to order, cooked simply in butter and big enough to share, and the duck, bavette steak and creamed pāua on fried bread all have their followers. Finish with the butterscotch crème brûlée and pear sorbet.
Staff are warm and switched on, know the menu and the wine list inside out, and will happily point you at a local bottle or a spicy margarita from the bar. They're patient with kids and careful with allergies, though the odd table has met a frostier welcome than the food deserves.
You're across the road from Onetangi beach, so the front deck looks out over the sand and you can watch the surf between courses. Inside it's terracotta tiles and blond wood, and there's a sheltered garden bar out the back where you can wait on a sun lounger.
Regulars reckon it's well priced for the size of the portions, and the servings are generous enough that sharing entrees and sides makes sense. Others find the mains steep for the amount of food you get, especially when a dish misses, so come expecting beachfront Waiheke prices rather than a bargain.
Long lunches that roll into the afternoon, especially after a swim at Onetangi, and big tables, since groups and set menus are handled well. It suits birthdays and anniversaries, and families and vegans get looked after properly, which isn't always a given on the island.
The indoor room gets loud when it's full, so book the deck or the garden if you want to hear each other. Food can be slow at peak times, oysters have turned up still attached to the shell, and the kitchen has been known to run out of seafood by Sunday dinner.
Every fact on this page was checked on 8 November 2026 against Google, Three Seven Two's own website and 632 of its Google reviews. The photo is from the eatout library, not taken here, and no venue pays to be listed or ranked. Something out of date? Tell us
Pubs and bars · Onetangi · $$
★ 4.2 from 2,107 Google reviews
With your feet still sandy from Onetangi Beach, you cross The Strand and settle in at a table that looks straight back out over the water, because that view is the whole reason this place has been part of the island since 1987.
Onetangi · $$
★ 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.
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.
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.
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.
