Guidebook for Oamaru

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Guidebook for Oamaru

Food Scene

Tees Street Cafe has the best coffee, awesome brunch menu and great vibe with bright and funky fitout of a historic building. Dangerously close to our house... If the homemade Kombucha is on the menu it's worth a try!
Tees Street
Tees Street
Tees Street Cafe has the best coffee, awesome brunch menu and great vibe with bright and funky fitout of a historic building. Dangerously close to our house... If the homemade Kombucha is on the menu it's worth a try!
Traditional breads, cakes and delicious baked goods. German-style hot lunches daily.
Vinbrux Bakery & Kaffehaus
36B Arun St
Traditional breads, cakes and delicious baked goods. German-style hot lunches daily.
Beautiful fine-dining dinner option, great fitout in a historic building. Stunning dishes!
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Cucina
1 Tees St
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Beautiful fine-dining dinner option, great fitout in a historic building. Stunning dishes!
Super salads, blue cod n chips or good burgers right on the harbours edge. Right beside the Steampunk playground for coffees while the kids play.
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The Galley
1 Esplanade
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Super salads, blue cod n chips or good burgers right on the harbours edge. Right beside the Steampunk playground for coffees while the kids play.
Hearty, large, pub-style meals but served to a very high standard. Great value for money. Go there hungry...!
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Fat Sally's Pub & Restaurant
84 Thames St
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Hearty, large, pub-style meals but served to a very high standard. Great value for money. Go there hungry...!
Beautiful, fresh, delicious Japanese...I'm craving some just thinking about it! Great lunch option on Thames Street
Yumee bento bowl restaurant
Beautiful, fresh, delicious Japanese...I'm craving some just thinking about it! Great lunch option on Thames Street

Drinks & Nightlife

Local Craft brewery, great location close to the harbour in the Historic area. Awesome beers, wood fire pizza and recently slow-cooked pulled-pork added to the menu. A favourite spot on a sunny afternoon or even rainy evening.
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Scotts Brewing Co.
1 Wansbeck St
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Local Craft brewery, great location close to the harbour in the Historic area. Awesome beers, wood fire pizza and recently slow-cooked pulled-pork added to the menu. A favourite spot on a sunny afternoon or even rainy evening.

Entertainment & Activities

Every evening on dark these local penguins wander up the beach as they return to their nesting burrows for the night. The viewing platform has been built to protect the activities of these world's smallest penguins
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Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony
17 Waterfront Rd
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Every evening on dark these local penguins wander up the beach as they return to their nesting burrows for the night. The viewing platform has been built to protect the activities of these world's smallest penguins

Arts & Culture

Oamaru is reknowned for it's Steampunk Culture. "Steampunk is a quirky and fun genre of science fiction that features steam-powered technology. It is often set in an alternate, futuristic version of 19th century Victorian England". Check out the Museum and Steampunk themed Playground
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Steampunk HQ
1 Humber St
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Oamaru is reknowned for it's Steampunk Culture. "Steampunk is a quirky and fun genre of science fiction that features steam-powered technology. It is often set in an alternate, futuristic version of 19th century Victorian England". Check out the Museum and Steampunk themed Playground
A variety of shows, always changing so best to check what's on during your stay. "The Oamaru Opera House is an intimate & thoroughly unique New Zealand venue, community owned, bringing you the latest in entertainment from around the globe"
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Oamaru Opera House
94 Thames St
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A variety of shows, always changing so best to check what's on during your stay. "The Oamaru Opera House is an intimate & thoroughly unique New Zealand venue, community owned, bringing you the latest in entertainment from around the globe"

Shopping

Awesome homewares store in a stunning historic building. Great interiors fitout and inspiring collection of homewares, giftware, clothing, house plants, and coffee!
Housekeepers Design
18 Harbour St
Awesome homewares store in a stunning historic building. Great interiors fitout and inspiring collection of homewares, giftware, clothing, house plants, and coffee!
Incredible stockist of NZ designers. Such a beautiful store
Inc. Design Store
Incredible stockist of NZ designers. Such a beautiful store

Parks & Nature

A pleasant walk along formed paths and bike trails
Cape Wanbrow
A pleasant walk along formed paths and bike trails
Epic beach with impressive natural rock formations
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Moeraki kúlurnar
7 Moeraki Boulders Rd
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Epic beach with impressive natural rock formations

Essentials

Handy location on the town fringe when coming South from Dunedin.
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New World Oamaru
72 Wansbeck St
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Handy location on the town fringe when coming South from Dunedin.
Central location in the middle of Oamaru. Usually open till 9pm
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Countdown Oamaru
108 Thames St
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Central location in the middle of Oamaru. Usually open till 9pm