Where to eat in New Zealand
48,711 cafés, restaurants, takeaways, bars and pubs across 8 regions, compiled from open data.
Of the 64,640 venues we hold across New Zealand, 48,711 are places to eat — 75% of the total. They break down as 14,706 cafés, 15,956 restaurants, 11,499 takeaways, 1,831 bars and 4,719 pubs.
Distribution is heavily uneven. New South Wales alone holds 14,876 of them — 31% of the national total — and the top three regions (New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland) account for 78% between them. The thinnest is Northern Territory with 364. Averaged across the 6,269 named places we hold, that is 7.8 per town — a figure almost no individual town matches, because the median settlement has a handful and the cities have hundreds.
24,714 of the 48,711 eating places carry a cuisine tag (51%). Nationally the most common are coffee shop (2,965), burger (2,889), pizza (2,512), chicken (1,975), chinese (1,611) and sandwich (1,429). Those proportions are worth holding in mind when a town page says it over- or under-indexes on something: the comparison is always against this national mix, not against an ideal.
On data quality: 10,984 publish opening hours (23%), 11,955 list a website (25%), and 3,258 record step-free access (7%). 1,247 carry at least six recorded attributes, which is the bar a venue has to clear before we give it a page of its own — 3% of the total. The rest are listed on their town pages. Every gap is an unrecorded attribute rather than a known absence, because all of this comes from open data: OpenStreetMap for the venues themselves, public registers for verification. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, and no venue has paid to appear or to rank.