Bay View Hotel
What makes your venue the Best Gastropub in New Zealand?
Our location for starters, we are centrally located between Auckland Hamilton and coromandel. Whether you’re travelling or looking for a spot to meet up we are the destination to visit, pooches welcome on leash in our spacious garden bar. We have live music every weekend during the warmer months and various entertainment like quizzes and karaoke alternate weeks.
No matter your preference we have a large drinks selection on tap and bottled to please anyone. We aim to tantalize your tastebuds with dishes ranging from delicious homemade pub grub to fine dining with chef’s tables & degustation’s, bringing something special & unique to our area.
Describe the experience your customers have at your establishment – what is your food and beverage offering and why do people come back for more?
With our newly renovated bar our range of crisp cold tap beers and our vast selection of wines, craft beer and spirits it gives our customers a great choice to enjoy and relax while eating our delicious changing menu from fan favourite's like crispy beer batter fish & chips to an all-time Bay View favourite homemade chicken schnitzel with delicious flavours and fresh produce quality, our food is kept to a high standard which is why our customers keep coming back.
Tell us how you showcase NZ produce / offerings? Does your menu change with the season and how is it locally influenced. How do you accommodate allergy and dietary requirements?
Our talented chef Lyall has been travelling both the north and south island picking up flavours and skills working amongst hospitality legends as head chef at fleurs place in Moeraki to working at Riverstone kitchen in Oamaru learning sustainability and adapting to seasonal change with foraging and picking produce out of the Riverstone castle gardens to Amisfield learning creativity and flare, now working as executive chef here at the Bay View hotel we aim to use these skills and bring it to Bay View. With dishes using whole fish sourced fresh and locally off Coromandel coast as well as mussels and fresh vegetables locally grown, making it easy to adapt to season and produce availability, we have a separate menu dedicated to vegans, vegetarian’s, dairy & gluten free with mains, desserts & pizza options our menu is easily adaptable to change and accommodate our special dietary customers
What are your key points of difference and how have you managed to deliver them?
One huge key point of difference is our spacious family/dog friendly garden bar which features an outdoor bar and stage area to cater for our live summer music which we have previously hosted ticketed events in and will continue to do. Another would be our degustation’s and soon to come chefs table events collaborating with emerging chefs and masterchefs of NZ bringing something creative and unique to Kaiaua.
This approach aims to increase knowledge throughout our team which is great for our people and means if we lose a key team member, there is generally someone else with the skills to step up.
Please describe your commitment to sustainability.
Sustainability is a huge part of Bay View hotel not only in our kitchen but also front of house. We do this by reducing plastic’s, growing our own herbs and foraging. We buy from local producers; we use all parts of our vegetables by making stocks and using them to intensify flavors in our menu.
Have you won any awards in the recent past? Tell us about them.
Bay View itself has not has any recent awards however we did feature in stuff news recently as an up-and-coming food destination. Our executive chef Lyall is a young chef ambassador for NZ Beef & Lamb as well as a member of the restaurant association council creating programs for young rangatahi to inspire them to get into the hospitality industry.
Please describe how you create ambience.
We have crowd dj music system that allows our customers to pick songs jukebox style or to download an app and they can pick music from the comfort of their seat.
We have ample space and seating from our restaurant to bar area and garden bar, everywhere has a relaxing environment.
We try to create a warm welcoming atmosphere from the moment you walk in with our friendly team ready to great you.
