Where to eat and stay in Te Anau
71 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Te Anau, Southland — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.
We hold 71 venues in Te Anau — 32 places to eat and 39 to stay. That makes it the 2nd-largest of the 41 towns and suburbs we cover in Southland, carrying 23% of the region's venues.
Of the places to eat, 31% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Te Anau eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 10 cafés, 16 restaurants, 4 takeaways and 2 bars.
15 of the 32 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are italian (4), sandwich (3) and chinese (3). Relative to the rest of the country Te Anau is unusually strong on italian, sandwich and chinese — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.
On the practical detail: 24 publish opening hours (34%), 7 are recorded as step-free, 14 have outdoor seating and 5 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 23% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.
For a bed, Te Anau runs to 39 listings — 8 hotels, 5 motels, 5 b&bs and guest houses, 8 hostels, 5 serviced apartments and 8 holiday parks and campgrounds. Hotels dominate, at 21% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 55% 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 — Flat Bush (71), Kerikeri (70), Petone (68) and Ōtāhuhu (67) — average 12% accommodation. Te Anau runs at 55%, 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. 8 of the 71 venues in Te Anau 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 Te Anau (10)
- Naturally Fiordlands
- Sandfly Cafe
- Miles Better Pies
- Milford Road Merchant
- Bailiez Café & Bar
- Blak Shak
- The Lakefront Cafe
- Kea Cafe
- Wapiti Cafe and Bakery
- Alpine Center
Restaurants in Te Anau (16)
- Ditto
- Olive Tree Cafe
- Mexican Tastz
- The Fat Duck
- La Toscana
- Nonna Resi
- Ristorante Pizzeria Paradiso
- Radha's
- Thai Anau
- The Redcliff Restaurant and Bar
- Glow Worm Restaurant
- Jimmy Cook's Kiwi Kitchen
- Ming Garden
- The Ranch Bar & Grill
- Mizu
- MacKinnon Restaurant & Explorer Bar
Takeaways in Te Anau (4)
- Subway
- Te Anau Dairy
- Subway
- Bao Now
Bars in Te Anau (2)
- Black Dog
- The Explorer Bar
Hotels in Te Anau (8)
- Alpine View Motel
- ASURE Explorer Motel & Apartments
- Distinction Hotel
- Shakespeare House B&B
- Kingsgate Hotel Te Anau
- Distinction Te Anau Hotel & Villas
- Matai Lodge
- Radfords on the Lake
Motels in Te Anau (5)
- Lakefront Lodge
- The Village Inn Te Anau
- Parkland Motel
- Bella Vista Motel
- Edgewater Motel
B&Bs and guest houses in Te Anau (5)
- Loch Sloy Bed and Breakfast
- Norm's Place
- Cats Whiskers
- Fjordlands Lodge
- Loch Vista Luxury Accommodation
Hostels in Te Anau (8)
- Bob & Maxine's Backpackers
- Rosie's Backpacker Homestay
- Steamers Backpackers
- Te Anau Central Backpackers
- Lakewood Lofts by Lakefront Backpackers
- Paul's Backpacker Homestay
- Te Anau Lakefront Backpackers
- Cosy Kiwi
Serviced apartments in Te Anau (5)
- Templeone Cottages
- Birchwoid Cottages
- Blue Thistle Cottages
- Keiko's Cottages B&B
- Wapiti Lodge
Holiday parks and campgrounds in Te Anau (8)
- Te Anau Lakeview Holiday Park & Motels
- Te Anau Top 10 Holiday Park
- Fiordland Great Views Holiday Park
- Tasman Holiday Parks - Te Anau
- Andy’s Place
- Alpine NZMCA Park
- Brod Bay Campsite
- Te Anau Kiwi Holiday Park