Every table. Every bed.
17,658 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across New Zealand — compiled from open data and public registers, not scraped from listings sites.
That shape above is New Zealand, drawn from nothing but the positions of the venues in this dataset. No coastline, no map tiles — 17,658 points, each one somewhere you can eat or sleep. It is the most honest picture of the country this site can draw, and it is also the reason the site exists: the data is public, and nobody had put it together in a form you could actually use.
What this is
A directory of 13,220 places to eat and 4,438 places to stay, covering 1,482 named towns and suburbs across all 17 regions. Everything comes from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database Licence, cross-referenced against public registers. Every venue is listed for free, none has paid to appear or to rank, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own — because we do not have any, and inventing them is what has made every other directory worth less than the data underneath it.
What you get instead of reviews is context that has to be computed rather than collected: how dense a strip actually is, how a town's mix of cafés to restaurants compares with the national average, which cuisines are genuinely rare in a given place, what is within an 800-metre walk, and — where the source data allows it — opening hours translated out of OpenStreetMap's machine notation into a sentence you can read.
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The sister site
Sideline covers the same 1,482-odd places for sport rather than food — 2,670 gyms, studios and clubs, built the same way and to the same rules. Where a town appears on both, each page links to the other. clubs.amit.marketing →