Where to eat and stay in Methven

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

We hold 38 venues in Methven — 25 places to eat and 13 to stay. That makes it the 11th-largest of the 213 towns and suburbs we cover in Canterbury, carrying 2% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 28% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Methven eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 7 cafés, 12 restaurants, 2 takeaways, 1 bars and 3 pubs.

9 of the 25 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are coffee shop (2), pizza (2) and kebab (2). None of them is far out of line with the national picture; the mix here is broad rather than specialised.

On the practical detail: 7 publish opening hours (18%), 1 are recorded as step-free and 3 have outdoor seating. That is about the national average of 23%.

For a bed, Methven runs to 13 listings — 5 hotels, 3 motels, 1 b&bs and guest houses, 2 hostels and 2 holiday parks and campgrounds. Hotels dominate, at 38% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 34% of everything mapped here, well above the 25% national share — the signature of a place that hosts more visitors than it has residents.

Places of a similar size — Rolleston (38), Māngere (38), Avondale (39) and Hāwera (37) — average 22% accommodation. Methven runs at 34%, noticeably more, which is what a place that takes in visitors looks like.

All of this is derived from open data rather than collected from listings sites: OpenStreetMap for the venues, public registers for verification. 1 of the 38 venues in Methven 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.

Cafés in Methven (7)

• Arabica breakfast · coffee shop · outdoor seating36 McMillan Street
• Station Coffee outdoor seatingCafés
• Amara129 Main Street
• Station Coffee coffee shop · ice creamCafés
• Cafe 131Cafés
• Primo E SecundoCafés
• The Alpine GrindCafés

Restaurants in Methven (12)

• The Green Parrot Bar & Grill step-free36 Forest Drive
• 131 Eatery131 Main Street
• Dom's pizza · kebabRestaurants
• Kebab Food Truck - Kebizza pizza · kebab160 Main Street
• Nawab Eatery indian121 Main Street
• Thai Chilli thaiRestaurants
• Crossroads1 Methven - Chertsey Road
• Forest Lodge germanRestaurants
• The Last Post Cafe regionalRestaurants
• AQUA Japanese Restaurant & TakeawayRestaurants
• Lisah's Restaurant and BarRestaurants
• Ski Time RestaurantRestaurants

Takeaways in Methven (2)

• Purple Dragon japanese26 Forest Drive
• Village Takeaways And PizzasTakeaways

Bars in Methven (1)

• Steel-Worx Bar and RestaurantBars

Pubs in Methven (3)

• The Dubliner91 Methven Highway
• Canterbury Hotel (Brown Pub) outdoor seatingPubs
• Blue PubPubs

Hotels in Methven (5)

• Barkers Lodge1 Barkers Road
• Methven Resort51 Main Street
• The Lodge1 Methven - Chertsey Road
• Beluga LodgeHotels
• Brinkley ResortHotels

Motels in Methven (3)

• Cedar Chalets178 Main Street
• Four Seasons MotelMotels
• Methven MotelMotels

B&Bs and guest houses in Methven (1)

• Methven Lodge BnB182 Main Street

Hostels in Methven (2)

• Alpenhorn Chalet44 Allen Street
• Mt Hutt Bunkhouse8 Lampard Street

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Methven (2)

• Abisko CampgroundHoliday parks and campgrounds
• Methven Camping GroundHoliday parks and campgrounds

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