Eating and staying in Hawke's Bay
478 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 55 towns and suburbs in Hawke's Bay.
Hawke's Bay accounts for 3% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 9th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 478 venues sit across 55 named towns and suburbs, of which 5 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is concentrated: Napier (159), Hastings (86) and Havelock North (49) hold 62% of everything between them. The remaining 50 places average 2.7 venues each — a long tail of small settlements that we list on the nearest town page rather than give an empty page to.
The regional split runs 73% eating to 32% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is close to the national balance.
170 venues in Hawke's Bay carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on international (4), turkish (9) and fish and chips (25), and under-indexes on chicken and chinese.
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 82 venues here publish opening hours (17% against 23% nationally), 184 list a website, and 13 record step-free access. Everything on this site comes from open data, so coverage reflects what mappers and councils have published — not what exists on the ground.
The category split
| Restaurants | 126 in Hawke's Bay · 26% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Cafés | 100 in Hawke's Bay · 21% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Takeaways | 80 in Hawke's Bay · 17% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Motels | 55 in Hawke's Bay · 12% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 38 in Hawke's Bay · 8% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Pubs | 23 in Hawke's Bay · 5% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Hotels | 20 in Hawke's Bay · 4% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Hostels | 19 in Hawke's Bay · 4% of the region · 5% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Bars | 18 in Hawke's Bay · 4% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 649 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 18 in Hawke's Bay · 4% of the region · 4% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Serviced apartments | 4 in Hawke's Bay · 1% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Hawke's Bay →
Towns and suburbs in Hawke's Bay
A further 50 smaller places in Hawke's Bay carry fewer than 20 venues each. Rather than publish a page with nothing to say, we list their venues on the town pages nearest them.