Where to eat and stay in Ōamaru

53 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels in Ōamaru, Otago — compiled from open data and public registers. Free to search, and no venue pays to appear.

We hold 53 venues in Ōamaru — 34 places to eat and 19 to stay. That makes it the 5th-largest of the 117 towns and suburbs we cover in Otago, carrying 5% of the region's venues.

Of the places to eat, 29% are cafés against a national figure of 28%. That is close to the New Zealand norm — Ōamaru eats roughly the way the country does. The full split is 10 cafés, 11 restaurants, 10 takeaways, 1 bars and 2 pubs.

18 of the 34 eating places carry a cuisine tag. The most common are pizza (4), chinese (3) and fish and chips (3). Relative to the rest of the country Ōamaru is unusually strong on pizza, fish and chips and chinese — those appear here at a higher rate than the national average.

On the practical detail: 17 publish opening hours (32%), 1 are recorded as step-free, 6 have outdoor seating and 2 flag vegetarian options. Coverage here is better than the 23% national average, so the hours below are more reliable than most.

For a bed, Ōamaru runs to 19 listings — 4 hotels, 7 motels, 2 b&bs and guest houses, 4 hostels and 2 holiday parks and campgrounds. Motels dominate, at 37% of the town's accommodation. Accommodation is 36% 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 — Papanui (53), Blenheim (54), Porirua (54) and Picton (54) — average 26% accommodation. Ōamaru runs at 36%, 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 53 venues in Ōamaru 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 Ōamaru (10)

• Coffee Supreme outdoor seatingTees Street
• Steam7 Thames Street
• Tee Street3 Tees St Tees Street
• The Woolstore Café outdoor seating · vegetarianCafés
• Badger & Mackerel Mess Hall Expresso breakfast · cake175 Thames Street
• Deja Moo Ice CreamHarbour Street
• The Galley1 Esplanade
• The Roost30 Thames
• Whitestone CheeseTorridge Street
• The BridgeCafés

Restaurants in Ōamaru (11)

• Del Mar burger · cake · outdoor seating · vegetarian10 Waterfront Road
• Harbour Street Collective Cafe outdoor seating8 Harbour Street
• Indian & Nepalese Kitchen indian360A Thames Highway
• Bankok Recipe thaiRestaurants
• Filadelfio's Pizza Restaurant & Bar pizza70 Thames Street
• Lagonda Tearooms teaThames Street
• Star & Garter Restaurant9 Itchen Street
• The Station Wok chinese · asian45 Humber Street
• CucinaRestaurants
• Last PostRestaurants
• Golden Dragon chinese · fish and chipsRestaurants

Takeaways in Ōamaru (10)

• Turret Takeaways chinese · fish and chips218 Thames Street
• McDonald's burger · outdoor seatingTakeaways
• Subway sandwichTakeaways
• Domino's pizzaTakeaways
• Domino's pizzaTakeaways
• Eden Takeaways fish and chipsTakeaways
• KFC chickenTakeaways
• Noodle Canteen noodleTakeaways
• Kebab King kebabTakeaways
• India GardenTakeaways

Bars in Ōamaru (1)

• Scotts Brewery international · outdoor seatingWansbeck Street

Pubs in Ōamaru (2)

• Fat Sally's84 Thames Street
• Criterion HotelPubs

Hotels in Ōamaru (4)

• Brydone Hotel Oamaru115 Thames Street
• Old Bones Lodge468 Beach Road
• 1928 Cottage in Central OamaruHotels
• Character home with sea &town viewsHotels

Motels in Ōamaru (7)

• Asure Ambassador Motor Lodge269 Thames Highway
• 469 On Thames Motel & CafeMotels
• Alma MotelMotels
• Avenue MotelMotels
• Colonial LodgeMotels
• Midway MotelMotels
• North Star MotelMotels

B&Bs and guest houses in Ōamaru (2)

• Oasis on Orwell B&B46 A Orwell Street
• Oamaru Creek B&BB&Bs and guest houses

Hostels in Ōamaru (4)

• Oamaru Backpackers47 Tees Street
• Empire Hotel BackpackersHostels
• Swaggers BackpackersHostels
• YHA OamaruHostels

Holiday parks and campgrounds in Ōamaru (2)

• Oamaru TOP 10 Holiday Park step-free30 Chelmer Street
• Oamaru Harbour Tourist Park8 Esplanade

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