Location: Papamoa
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Where to eat Healthy food in Papamoa: The Best Restaurants and Bars
Find out what Healthy restaurants to try in Papamoa. Papamoa Beach is a suburb of Tauranga, located about 11 kilometres from the city centre. It is the largest residential suburb in Tauranga, having a population of 20,091 at the 2013 census. It is bordered to the west by Mount Maunganui (east of Sunrise Avenue and Hibiscus Avenue), the east by the Kaituna River (separating it from the Western Bay of Plenty District) and to the south by State Highway 2. Papamoa Beach has 16km of white sandy beach stretching from the boundary with Mount Maunganui in the west to the Kaituna River in the east. Widespread settlement of the area did not start until the early 1980s and prior to this Papamoa Beach had been largely a rural area. Once a small and tight knit community, many of Papamoa Beach's sweeping paddocks have been swallowed up by urban development. Papamoa Beach is currently one of the fastest growing suburbs of Tauranga, with many different subdivisions developing concurrently on different blocks of land on the fringes of the suburb.
Things to do in Papamoa
1. Dune Garden
Overall Ratings
4 based on 17 reviews
Best Brunch in the Bay Of Plenty! Open 7 days a week from 8am until 3pm We also cater to functions and events See you soon
Reviewed By barksnz
Awesome atmosphere, great food and coffee - epic for kids! And they grow their own produce. Highly recommendWe're glad to hear that you enjoyed our cafe. Thank you for the great review and we hope to see you soon with more friends and family
Where to eat Fast Food food in Papamoa: The Best Restaurants and Bars
2. Momo Teppan-Yaki
Overall Ratings
4 based on 191 reviews
Teppan-Yaki is a style of Japanese cuisine which uses an iron griddle to cook food. It is a healthy way of eating as well as socialising with friends and family. The literal translation of Teppan-Yaki is âiron plateâ (Teppan) âgrilledâ (Yaki). We are a sm
Reviewed By Chris F
Well it is nice to see genuine TripAdvisor reviews for a restaurant, that you can trust.This is not a restaurant to miss, in the Tauranga eating scene. Superb service, coupled with great food and very reasonable prices. Don't miss coming here.#35 for a set menu of very tasty foods is a bargain.WELL DONE!
3. Rice Rice Baby
Overall Ratings
4 based on 188 reviews
Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine Vegan and vegetarian friendly with dairy and gluten free options Takeaways always available
Reviewed By mythicalmel
I lived in the United States my whole life before coming to New Zealand five years ago. Before coming to Tauranga, we ate Vietnamese all the time, in New York City, Delaware, Denver....my husband worked with immigrants from Vietnam who cooked for us and who told us of the best restaurants to try. Rice Rice Baby is NOT authentic by a long shot. We have given this place two chances and it did not impress us at all. I had the spicy prawn stir fry and it tasted awful... Frozen peas and frozen corn, terribly flavored rice. The beer drinking chicken was awful. Everything was overpriced and the portions underwhelming. Cool atmosphere and friendly staff, but doesn't make up for the fact that the food was just not good and nowhere near authentic. If you want a more authentic and more affordable option, go a few doors down to Hello Banh Mi, run by actual Vietnamese immigrants who know what they are doing in the kitchen.Hello mythicalmel, I'm sorry you were left disappointed with your Rice Rice Baby experience. Please understand that one of the owners (who is also the head chef) and three quarters of our kitchen staff were born in Vietnam and all the dishes on the menu are their family recipes passed down through generations. Your review is certainly at odds with the vast majority of the reviews we have received so I would love to talk to you more about it if you'd like to email me on the address listed on our website or private message me here through TripAdvisor. Alternatively, you're welcome to come in at any time and I will apologise to you in person. All the best, Matt
Where to eat Seafood food in Papamoa: The Best Restaurants and Bars
4. Ours Cafe
Overall Ratings
4 based on 135 reviews
Reviewed By timbulktwo
I ordered the 'Fish' (at $26 well above average cafe prices even at the Mount). It was delicious. The white fish (species not identified) was cooked almost perfectly still juicy but cooked with tasty caramelisation on the outside. It sat on a sea of kumara (sweet potato) mash, which provided and earthy sweetness - one that I at first questioned when paired with delicate white fish, however, the miso shitake mushrooms cut through the mash adding their own notes of salt and savoury. I think the sesame brittle not only added to the beauty of the presentation but helpoed tie the mash (sweet and earthy) with the mushrooms (Asian and slightly sweet and savoury). Perhaps because it really was perfectly cooked (I resisted using the word perfect because surely anything could be a little better, but my only complaint about the fish would be that as I ate the residual heat gradually tipped it from perfect to ever so slightly overcooked, but still tender juicy and delicious) somehow the delicate fish held its own as centerpiece against the vigorous competition. Barbara also remarked how beautiful the plate looked. Her chowder was good. Her only complaint that she prefers some chunks of potato to a truely smoothe chowder but then she grew up in Ireland ;)Thanks for sharing! We always appreciate honest feedback and specially such detailed ones. I can only apologise for our waitress not having told the fish of the day, which was Hapuka. I will make sure our Chef Chris sees your wonderful compliments on his food. Hope to see you again soon.
Most Popular International food in Papamoa, North Island, New Zealand
