South Eatery

Absolutely gorgeous food coupled with fantastic service, add the unbelievable panoramic views of the lake and mountains and you have a meal you won’t forget! Loved every minute.

2 people for dinner. we stayed at the Mercure. We received our complimentary house wine, they were okay. No complaints on comp drinks. For food we ordered 1 entree (to share) and 2 mains with a side greens salad. The entree was the char grilled prawns, it came with edamame beans and green beans. It looks really nice and the prawns were good, the beans could have had more flavour or a pinch more salt (which we could have added I suppose, I usually prefer to eat the dish as the chef intended). In saying that I would get the prawn dish again as the prawns were cooked just right (juicy and bit of a bite but tender). The mains were the salmon and the eye fillet (medium rare). The salmon had a good crispy skin, it was cooked well. A bit boring flavour wise even though it came with a jus and a yuzu sauce options. (I can't remember the name of the white sauce exactly) The eye fillet came with the same sauce options. I had it with the yuzu sauce with it, it was nice. I don't think you can go wrong with eye fillet. It was cooked to my liking and the flavour as I expect. The side greens salad was average, I wouldn't order this again as I had some bad leaves in it. I think for a restaurant standard they should pick out the bad leaves, as I would at home. Other than that the flavour was nice. We ended it with a scoop of ice cream each. They put both together even though we ordered separately, which is fine as it was rectified by the waitress quickly. I ordered a shot of espresso and made mine into an affogato. I think there is potential as the views are amazing.

Really lovely small place with a beautiful view. Service was super nice. Good relation between price and food.

Amazing food and sweet staff. Surprisingly good experience

It’s called south eatery now with new menu. This hotel restaurant is everything - great view, reasonable price, friendly staffs, and amazing food. I was feeling car sick when I arrived at the restaurant and wanted to vomit, let alone the idea of food. My partner kindly organised this dinner in advance and I forced myself to order. But surprisingly the blackened tuna with pineapple was so refreshing and delicious that I recovered from motion sickness and finished the whole meal! It’s not packed with madness like Queenstown central, in summary - hidden gem on Fernhill.