As a person with awkward dietary restrictions due to coeliac disease and disablin allergies, I often end up either not eating at all because I don't feel safe, or chosing pan fried fish and a green salad without dressing while those around me are enjoying feasts.
Not so at Raupo, where first the waiter and then the cooks went out of their way to understand my needs and make sure they could adapt the meal I chose to both avoid any undesireable repercussions and also to delight me.
I am very grateful. Everything was delicious. The three people with me all raved about their meals, too, and I cannot praise Raupo enough.
Great service and amazing food. Stopped on our way back to nelsom hoping to get a gluten free pie. I had one of them on my last visit and i have to say that in the 20 years that i have been GF, that this was hands down the best Gluten Free pie I have ever had. Sadly they didn't have any so had a GF banoffee slice. Tasted amazing. Hopefully they make those GF pies again in the future as its worth the drive from Nelson.
Your typical corner fish n chips shop. They do gluten free but didn't use a separate fryer (which they told me at till). Nice food - good size pieces of fish
Great food and beautifully cooked. Generous seafood portions and very tasty.
However: Waitress couldn’t tell us anything about the dishes when we asked. We had to rely totally on reading the menu’s descriptions.
We were keen to do a desert but after giving us a menu again, waitress never came back to take our orders. So after waiting and seeing her go by many times we got up, paid and left and then went elsewhere.
Hence a lower rating for staff who should be trained to upsell and also know what the dishes are.
This restaurant does Cater to Coeliac clients in many mains, but only one desert option. (Would be nice to see sticky rice and mango as an option. )
We went at 5 pm, so restaurant wasn’t busy.
Good spot for dinner on a Friday night. No issue fitting us in despite being busy. Nice meals and attentive staff. My wife has to be gluten free, no issue at all.
We had high expectations of this place based on the reviews as we both love this type of cuisine and eat it regularly in the UK. It's an odd restaurant - attached to the swimming pool area of a hotel and lacking much character. Busy though for a Thursday night so we were lucky to get a seat. None of the sakes on the tasting board really jumped out, and the waitress wasn't great at explaining them. We shared the pork gyozas, aubergine and tofu dish, spicy squid and salmon and avocado rolls. All of it tasted fine but none of it was memorable. The rolls were also made with super tough seaweed paper so it was really hard to bite through and they were too chewy. They have detailed gluten free menu though which is nice. At the end we were asked to tip which took us by surprise as our understanding in NZ is that you don't tip. We ended up paying something which I regret as the service was equally only fine.
2 Market Street, Blenheim Central, Blenheim 7201, New Zealand
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Karin ROUSE
First time visit, very helpful and friendly staff. Catering for our gluten free diet, we ordered two pizzas they were delicious, we will definitely be back next time we are in Blenheim