Review Spectators Bar & Bistro - Christchurch

Great food and quick service, just a bit loud with so many people in there.

Spectators Bar & Bistro is a brilliant place to watch Harness racing. Indoor & outdoor covered seating (great rain or shine). Dine indoors or out. Drink selection good & reasonably prices. Loads of seating. Modern, comfortably enviroment, with local shuttle service. Friendly, helpful bar staff. Opening a tab for meals & drinks is not a problem with Specators member card. Plenty of TAB facilities. Great fun for a night out, spend a little or alot.

A nice bar and restaurant that serves good quality food. Located in the Addington Raceway's main building on the ground floor it caters for all sorts of events. This includes business functions, race day events and personal bookings. It is a nice place to have a meal and or drop in for lunch. Car parking is easy as there is a major car park out front.

Good service, nice food Peasant atmosphere

A fun place to be.. Meals look amazing staff very friendly atmosphere is exciting

Met up with some family who wanted to have a wee bet on the horses. Grabbed a couple burgers, a pizza and loaded fries. Food came out fairly quickly, and the quality was top notch. Staff were friendly and polite also. Would happily go back at any stage.

Great venue. People don't understand this is open almost every day! Great food at great prices! Steak was brilliant.

Absolutely beautiful service and food. Atmosphere spot on 👌🏼👌🏼 Thank you to the lady serving us kiriwai. Definitely be bk soon.

Had a function there great atmosphere and music. Staff were fun. The food is amazing omg. Id love to go here again

Great place to go and watch the races. Super friendly staff and really reasonable prices. Pizza was awesome

Great Food and a good vibe. Nice place to watch the races from and to catch up with old mates. The food is extremely good value for money with a good selection to choose from. A very enjoyable evening.

Great atmosphere for our Tuesday night knitting group. Nice lighting , so you can see what you're doing. Good food and coffee and we are always looked after well.

We went when a gig was on at the Horncastle Arena. It was busy but we were told what was best to order for the least time waiting and the staff were still awesomely friendly in their busiest time. Food was great. They forgot the milkshake so when we did get it we weren't charged. Definitely recommend these guys.

Nice friendly, welcoming staff. Great food. Very qui k service and good prices. Came here for something to eat as we were at Armageddon but there was no cafe or anywhere to sit and eat there. So glad we went to Spectators instead. More choice and more relaxing.

Great place to eat at reasonable prices for meals. I would definitely have a meal here agan. Yummy meals light and snacks were terrific. I enjoyed the pleasant atmosphere here. Pleasant staff as well. It does pay to book a table just to be safe it gets quite full.

Not a bad spot for a pre-show drink... Well, really the ONLY spot that's within walking distance of the Horncastle Arena. Expect large crowds and a wait on a show night. We grabbed an outside table on a cold night... No issue thanks to the outdoor heaters 👍

orsum to go and have a nice feed and have a punt on horses

After dining at spectators in the past we ventured there again on Friday. We ordered meals off the menus that were on the table only to be told " we don't do those on a Friday" we asked for a burger to be told " no burgers today" there was a function behind us who were getting burgers but only them. General public wernt. We finally ordered and were told there was a 30 min wait. After 35 mins the duty manager came over and said "what did you order again??" We told her a pizza and lattice chips. We'd noticed that people who came in after us were getting their food (including pizzas and chips.) She came back to our table and I asked her how far away is our food? Just coming out of the oven was her reply. 20 mins later I go to the bar and ask where our food is. Barman is apologetic and says I'll check for you. Pizzas are coming out but not to our table!!! Finally nearly and hour later our pizza arrives. No apologies for the wait time and no lattice chips. We wait, and wait, no chips. A young waitress comes over and asks us if we're still waiting for anything?? Yes...our lattice chips!! We've finished our pizza and no chips to be seen. I go and tell the barman who seems embarrassed and perplexed. I get a refund and he asks for my name and number to probably appease me with some vouchers for my dissapointment. I decline as I figure if you can't get it right now you'll hardly likely to improve next time. Also they refused to let my friend use the power point behind the bar to moulie a friends meal for her. She had to use a power outlet on the wall and sit on the floor to do it. That was particularly disgusting as what sort of message did that send to our friend who has no choice but to eat her food softened!!! Anyway...we won't be back. If rather go to McDonald's in Lincoln road. You get service AND your food!! Bonus!!

Went early to go to dinner before Mrs Browns Boys forgetting that it was a race night had to wait a little for meal to arrive staff were wonderful and the food amazing back for coffee after show made us very welcome deffinately going again

Visited for early mothers day dinner, the manager/owner was amazing and so friendly and welcoming to everyone in the restaurant, will return for that reason alone. Food was great and the burger was huge!!! Desert was delish. Awesome atmosphere and great open layout.

My new fave place to eat dinner after a busy day at work! Always great food and staff are really friendly and good value. Can not fault a thing. thanks spectators team

We were exceptionally early for a show at Horncastle Arena so we thought we'd come over for a beer and something to eat. What impressed me was how clean the bar was and how friendly the staff were. I ordered myself and my partner a large Italian pizza. We waited maybe 10 minutes and a nice young fellow came over with what would be the most divine pizza ever! We have nothing but praise for you and hope to be back oneday soon.

Came today for pizza and drinks they were under cooked and average used to be lovley so was bit dissapointed. Good service and atmosphere but won't be rushing back

Went in for a coffee before show, waited 35 mins for the coffee which was cold, as i could see it had been sitting on counter for at least 10 mintues, so asked for a warm one, waited another 15 mins then gave up and left. Service appalling, think they wld have planned for a crowd with a show on. Will never go back and wld definitely not recommend.

We run 2 weekly Elite6 Business Networking meetings at Spectators on Wednesdays and Thursdays mornings at 7:30am. You couldn't get better food, staff and the place has a great atmosphere!

The staff are always extremely friendly and the food is divine!

OMG. Tawhai and yr team. I so recommend u to all that dare to visit the quake city. Yr hospitality reigns supreme. I kid u not

Great venue and friendly staff. Good food and reasonable prices.

My wife ordered the lamb steaks with straight cut fries ended up with rack of lamb with lattice fries which was not what she ordered pretty disappointed 😔 was

Delish pork belly and even catered to my fussy ways, highly recommend.

Great pizza . Waited long for food as it was busy only to find out they had wrong table number. Got a fresh pizza and a free round of drinks. Pizza was fresh and tasty.