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Eating
Boaboa Food Company
(
www.facebook.com/boaboafc
; 137 Ardmore St; mains $10-18; 10am-9pm)
Fancy burgers (spiced pulled
pork, high-country salmon, porterhouse steak) are the mainstay of this white-tiled takeway
bar, but it also does fish and chips and fried chicken. There are only a handful of high
tables, but the lakefront beckons.
FAST FOOD
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Kai Whakapai
(cnr Helwick & Ardmore Sts; brunch $7-18, dinner $17-22; 7am-11pm)
An absolute Wanaka institution,
Kai (the Maori word for food) is the place to be for a liquid sundowner accompanied by a
massive sandwich or pizza. Locally brewed Wanaka Beerworks beers are on tap and there
are Central Otago wines as well.
CAFE, BAR
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Red Star
MAP
BURGERS
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(26 Ardmore St; burgers $10-17; 11.30am-11pm; )
Red Star spoils diners with a menu featuring
inventive ingredients and 22 different burgers. Everybody is catered for - even vegetari-
ans, who get a show-stopping three choices.
Soulfood
MAP
ORGANIC, CAFE
$
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(
www.soulfoodwanaka.co.nz
;
74 Ardmore St; mains $10-15; 8am-6pm Mon-Fri, to 4pm Sat & Sun; )
It's not soul food in the African American sense; rather this little organics store offers a
healthy range of id-affirming soups, pizza, pasta and muffins. Not everything's strictly ve-
getarian, with wild venison and free-range bacon breaking the spell. Juices and smoothies
are suitably virtuous, but coffee's limited to the plunger variety.
Yohei
(Spencer House Mall, 23 Dunmore St; mains $12-15; 8am-5.30pm; )
Tucked away in a shopping
arcade, this funky Japanese-inspired eatery does interesting local spins on sushi (how
SUSHI
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