Bars in Christchurch

47 bars mapped in Christchurch — 7% of the town's 642 venues.

Christchurch has 47 bars in our data, which is 7% of everything mapped in the town and 7% of the 649 we hold nationally. That is close to the 4% national share. 16 of them publish opening hours (34%), against 23% nationally.

Bars rarely carry a cuisine tag, so the useful detail here is elsewhere. Almost none of these 47 records a star rating, room count or service detail — the category is mapped by name and position more than by attribute. Opening hours matter more than cuisine for this category, and are the field most worth checking before you travel.

Across these 47, 3 record step-free access, 12 have outdoor seating and 15 list a website. 1 carry enough recorded detail for a page of their own, linked from the list below; the remainder are listed here because there would be nothing to put on a separate page. Everything comes from open data, so a blank attribute means unrecorded, not absent.

Christchurch sits in Canterbury, which holds 2,267 venues in total and 86 bars, so Christchurch accounts for 55% of the bars in its own region. For the rest of what is here — 129 cafés, 202 restaurants, 142 takeaways and 24 pubs — see the full Christchurch page.

Ranking note: the order below is by how much we know about each venue, not by quality. We hold no ratings or reviews of our own and take no payment for placement, so there is no editorial judgement being smuggled in — a venue near the top has simply recorded more about itself in the open data than one further down. That is a real signal about how easy it will be to plan a visit, and nothing more than that.

• Moon Under Water outdoor seating · step-free150 Somerfield Street
• Cocopelli outdoor seatingThe Palms Mall
• Dux Central outdoor seating10 Poplar Street
• Mr Brightside Rooftop Bar outdoor seating · step-free152 Oxford Terrace
• The Rockpool outdoor seating85 Hereford Street
• Bar Franco166 Cashel Street
• Gin Gin4-6 New Regent Street
• The Bealey ale and steak house outdoor seating263 Bealey Ave
• Austin Club236 High Street
• Fat Eddie's outdoor seatingBars
• The Last Word outdoor seating31 New Regent Street
• The Running Bull Bar and Grill1 Riccarton Road
• Carlton1 Papanui Road
• Fox and Ferret outdoor seatingMarshland Road
• O.G.B Bar & CafeBars
• Salut SalutBars
• Schnitz Bar & Restaurant step-free31 Victoria Street
• The Craft Embassy101/126 Oxford Terrace
• Whiskey Fiddle outdoor seatingBars
• Cellar Door outdoor seatingBars
• Club Arcadia77 Victoria Street
• Empire172 St Asaph Street
• Engineers178 St Asaph Street
• Galaxy Arcade204 Barbadoes Street
• Glenbyre Tavern111 Keighleys Road
• Kong outdoor seatingBars
• Pink LadyBars
• Strange & CoBars
• Sydenham Bowling Club230 Brougham Street
• The Cuban236 St Asaph Street
• The DarkroomBars
• The Poplar Social Club6 Poplar Street
• Wilko28 New Regent Street
• A Rolling StoneBars
• Bar 185Bars
• Bloody Mary'sBars
• BurjBars
• CascadeBars
• Celine'sBars
• Micky Finn's Irish PubBars
• Mish MashBars
• NucleusBars
• Spectators BarBars
• The Bangalore Polo ClubBars
• The Loft BarBars
• VespaBars
• VesuvioBars

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