Eating and staying in Gisborne
101 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 16 towns and suburbs in Gisborne.
Gisborne accounts for 1% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 16th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 101 venues sit across 16 named towns and suburbs, of which 1 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is very concentrated: Gisborne (66), Tokomaru Bay (7) and Tolaga Bay (6) hold 78% of everything between them. The remaining 15 places average 2.3 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 63% eating to 44% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is a markedly higher share of accommodation than the country as a whole — the mark of a region that hosts visitors rather than only feeding residents.
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 13 venues here publish opening hours (13% against 23% nationally), 22 list a website, and 3 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.
Gisborne is one of the smallest regions in this dataset, and a small sample deserves a warning. With 101 venues spread over 16 places, a single new listing shifts the percentages here more than it would in Auckland, and none of the comparisons above should be read as a firm characterisation of the region. Sparse open-data coverage in remote areas is also common: the further a place is from a large population centre, the more likely it is that venues exist which nobody has yet added to OpenStreetMap. Treat this page as a floor on what is here rather than a complete account, and if you know the area, adding what is missing to OpenStreetMap improves it for everyone rather than just for us.
The category split
| Restaurants | 27 in Gisborne · 27% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 18 in Gisborne · 18% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Takeaways | 16 in Gisborne · 16% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Motels | 16 in Gisborne · 16% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Cafés | 15 in Gisborne · 15% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Pubs | 4 in Gisborne · 4% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Hostels | 4 in Gisborne · 4% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Hotels | 3 in Gisborne · 3% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Bars | 2 in Gisborne · 2% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 649 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 2 in Gisborne · 2% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Serviced apartments | 1 in Gisborne · 1% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Gisborne →
Towns and suburbs in Gisborne
A further 15 smaller places in Gisborne 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.