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Where to eat and stay in Christchurch

642 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Christchurch, Canterbury — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

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544places to eat
98places to stay
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We hold 642 venues in Christchurch — 544 places to eat and 98 to stay. That is more than anywhere else in Canterbury, and 28% of everything mapped across the region. Nationally it sits 2nd out of 1,482 places.

Of the places to eat, 24% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. Christchurch skews 4 points away from cafés and towards restaurants, a pattern more typical of an evening trade. The full split is 129 cafés, 202 restaurants, 142 takeaways, 47 bars and 24 pubs.

312 of the 544 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are coffee shop (32), pizza (29) and burger (25). Relative to the rest of the country Christchurch is unusually strong on greek, fine dining and american — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 255 publish opening hours (40%), 74 are recorded as step-free, 111 have outdoor seating and 50 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 23% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Christchurch runs to 98 listings — 33 hotels, 39 motels, 2 b&bs and guest houses, 18 hostels, 3 serviced apartments and 3 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 40% of the town's accommodation.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 50 of the 642 venues in Christchurch carry at least six recorded attributes and so have a page of their own; the rest are listed here, because a page with only a name and a map pin on it would be worth nobody's time. A blank field means unrecorded, not absent. Nothing here is scraped from a commercial directory, no venue has paid to appear, and we publish no ratings or reviews of our own.

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Cafés in Christchurch (129)

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Restaurants in Christchurch (202)

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Takeaways in Christchurch (142)

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Bars in Christchurch (47)

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Pubs in Christchurch (24)

Hotels in Christchurch (33)

Motels in Christchurch (39)

B&Bs and guest houses in Christchurch (2)

Hostels in Christchurch (18)

Serviced apartments in Christchurch (3)

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Christchurch (3)

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Amit Sharma

Auckland real estate agent and social media marketer. I build these sites so the answer is free and the data is public.