Eating and staying in Nelson
232 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 7 towns and suburbs in Nelson.
Nelson accounts for 1% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 14th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 232 venues sit across 7 named towns and suburbs, of which 2 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is very concentrated: Nelson (185), Tāhunanui (24) and Stoke (16) hold 97% of everything between them. The remaining 5 places average 4.6 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 78% eating to 25% accommodation, against a national 75/25. That is close to the national balance.
93 venues in Nelson carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on mexican (5), italian (6) and asian (6).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 123 venues here publish opening hours (53% against 23% nationally), 109 list a website, and 77 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 | 69 in Nelson · 30% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Cafés | 61 in Nelson · 26% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Takeaways | 26 in Nelson · 11% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Motels | 17 in Nelson · 7% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Bars | 13 in Nelson · 6% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 649 |
| Hotels | 13 in Nelson · 6% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Pubs | 11 in Nelson · 5% of the region · 2% of New Zealand's 623 |
| Hostels | 11 in Nelson · 5% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 8 in Nelson · 3% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 7 in Nelson · 3% of the region · 1% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Serviced apartments | 1 in Nelson · 0% of the region · 0% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Nelson →
Towns and suburbs in Nelson
A further 5 smaller places in Nelson 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.