Wairau River Wines Cellar Door & Restaurant

Another outstanding lunch at Wairau River restaurant. Our favourite place to take friends from out of town as we know the food and service will always be first class! The prawns re to die for and the brown sugar pavlova with lemon curd and berry coulis was superb.

We dined here for lunch whilst on a bike tour of the local vineyards. We had the prawn salad and beer battered chips to share and the food was unreal. The wine was delicious and the staff were very knowledgeable. We bought a bottle of their wine which had a 20% discount when you dined with them so very reasonably priced. Wonderful place and would highly recommend.

Always an excellent place to go and eat - oh, and drink the awesome wine of course! Excellent service and food.

Thank you we loved the whole experience. Great food choices, fantastic attentive staff, nice wine. Keep on doing what you are doing, a real winner in our eyes.

Wairau River was a standout in our visit to Blenheim. Excellent food, wine, and service. Our waitress (Dethyl) was fantastic.

Duck spring rolls, blue cheese souffle, pavlova, bread and dips all exceeded expectations.

Highly recommended.

Great service with helpful advice about the menu and wine choice. Food, outstanding flavours, we each had something different and full of compliments to the chefs. Why would you not want to eat at Wairau River!

We had a great lunch here. The environment is lovely, the food was delicious (I had the sashimi as a starter, and prawns for my main) and the service was excellent. This restaurant will be top of my list of places to eat when back in the area.

I organised for a group of 15 of us to have lunch at Wairau River Restaurant. We all enjoyed our meals, wine and sitting outside to dine and catch up. Staff were attentive and friendly. I was pleased to see the Blue Cheese souffle is still on the menu and was a lovely meal. Mary Griffiths

The food was amazing! The Salmon sashimi is a must try.
Great service from all the staff thank you.

We try and make it to this vineyard whenever we visit from the UK. Our ferry sailings were changed a number of times and staff managed to still accommodate us and we had a brilliant, good value lunch with wine. Thank you to our Welsh waitress.

It was the best lunch I had the entire week I was in Marlboro. The staff was wonderful - friendly and knowledgable. The food was excellent. I'm a vegan and the salad was perfect. I will certainly go again when I return to the area.

This has been a family run restaurant for over 30 years and I've been coming since its inception. The Double Baked Souffle has always been my most favourite dish with its classic pear and parmesan salad and has featured as far as I am aware every day since the restaurant started. High quality food using seasonal and fresh local ingredients has always been a feature. Yesterday I resisted the souffle and had as a main, the cold smoked salmon sashimi salad which was absolutely delicious. It's a pleasure to report that I continue to love this place as much now as I always have and due to its superb menu that changes from time to time and friendly helpful staff, I believe there's not one person who would not find a dish to delight the tastebuds. Great food, great wine and excellent ambience.

The images of the restaurant, food and setting resulted in us trying Wairau and it did not disappoint. Quickly seated and watered, the staff were friendly and good for a yarn. We ordered their cheese board and their sticky, pork salad… along with a few glasses of wines. All 10/10, really quality food, the cheese board had generous portions and at $27 I think really good value. That pork salad was incredible! Had Vietnamese style dressing, slightly sweet but fresh, the sticky, pork belly was tender and perfectly seasoned and spiced. Wines we tried the rose, the reserve rose, the resiling and… a sparkling, from the reserve - all top shelf, complex on the nose, sassy character wines, just quality.

Once again, Wairau River didn't disappoint!
The Restaurant was extremely busy the week before Xmas, but the staff were still efficient and friendly.and we were pleased to see the souffle and prawns still on the menu as just as good as ever!
This just has to be the best winery for lunch in Marlborough.
The food is superb - we thoroughly recommend the Twice Baked Souffle and the Chilli Prawns. The accompanying salads are perfectly matched and delicious.
We cannot fault Wairau River - their wines are jolly good too!

We had a lovely lunch at Wairu River Wines Restaurant. We e-biked it there easily. Gorgeous restaurant with great service from the staff. The food was delicious and showcased local produce. Excellent wines (as expected).

Table for 6 today with an amazing meal bubbles and Pinot Gris and served by an amazing young lady Cerys
we were so impressed by her service and attention to us enjoying
This young lady so so impressed
Well done Cerys and these are the reason people return
Malcolm

Our group of 15, in Blenheim for Garden Marlborough, enjoyed a wonderful lunch at WR Wines. The staff were very accomodating, the soufflē, salads, desserts and wines were delicious. We'll be back!

A favorite! Our go to place for consistently delicious food and great service. The setting is wonderful and whether dining inside or out - it is a treat.

We arrived an hour and a half before our table booking, and only 10 minutes before the end of morning tea service, yet the staff at Wairau River Wines were super accomodating and had no issues with us taking a last minute morning tea. We were seated at our table and received attentive service throughout the day as other tables came and went.
When it was time for lunch, all three of us were blown away. Flavour and presentation were particularly notable for the chilli salt prawns and the pork salad. The salads that came with each of these were just delicious. The pork was so tender and juicy.
I’ll leave it at that for food talk, needless to say this was the most enjoyable meal of our two weeks in NZ (and notably felt more welcoming, nourishing and better value than some fine dining down the road)

Enjoy a wonderful lunch here at Wairau River.
Staff were attentive and friendly. Menu was relatively small but offered something for everyone and the food was delightful in its presentation and extremely tasty.
We shared desserts as it was difficult to choose.
Indoor / outdoor dining is available, we chose outside under the vines.
Can’t wait to return