Eating and staying in Otago
1,130 cafés, restaurants, bars, hotels and motels across 117 towns and suburbs in Otago.
Otago accounts for 6% of every venue we hold in New Zealand, which makes it the 5th-largest of the 17 regions by venue count. Those 1,130 venues sit across 117 named towns and suburbs, of which 9 carry at least 20 venues and get a page of their own.
Distribution inside the region is relatively even: Dunedin (243), Queenstown (216) and Wānaka (96) hold 49% of everything between them. The remaining 108 places average 3.5 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 64% eating to 39% 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.
327 venues in Otago carry a cuisine tag. Measured against the national mix, the region over-indexes on curry (4), cake (10) and steak house (4).
Data quality varies by region and it is worth knowing where this one stands: 327 venues here publish opening hours (29% against 23% nationally), 321 list a website, and 103 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 | 277 in Otago · 25% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 4,558 |
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| Cafés | 214 in Otago · 19% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 3,648 |
| Hotels | 129 in Otago · 11% of the region · 17% of New Zealand's 775 |
| Takeaways | 121 in Otago · 11% of the region · 3% of New Zealand's 3,742 |
| Holiday parks and campgrounds | 113 in Otago · 10% of the region · 8% of New Zealand's 1,337 |
| Motels | 74 in Otago · 7% of the region · 6% of New Zealand's 1,152 |
| Hostels | 56 in Otago · 5% of the region · 14% of New Zealand's 414 |
| Bars | 55 in Otago · 5% of the region · 8% of New Zealand's 649 |
| Pubs | 54 in Otago · 5% of the region · 9% of New Zealand's 623 |
| B&Bs and guest houses | 32 in Otago · 3% of the region · 7% of New Zealand's 478 |
| Serviced apartments | 32 in Otago · 3% of the region · 11% of New Zealand's 282 |
Sideline covers the same region for sport — gyms and clubs in Otago →
Towns and suburbs in Otago
A further 108 smaller places in Otago 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.