Travel Reference
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Drinking & Nightlife
Emporium
MAP
BAR
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.emporiumbar.co.nz
;
Masonic Hotel, cnr Tennyson St & Marine Pde; 7am-late; )
Napier's most
civilised bar, Emporium, with it' marble-topped bar, fab art-deco details and old-fashioned
relics strewn about, is superatmospheric. Brisk staff, creative cocktails, good coffee, NZ
wines, bistro fare (plates $15 to $30) and prime location seal the deal.
Guffle Bar
(
www.guffle.co.nz
;
29A Hastings St; 4pm-late Tue-Fri, 6pm-late Sat)
Cool tunes, stylin' drinks, genial
pros behind the bar, and an on-display window seat: ingredients that lure Napier's noc-
turnal sophisticates through the doors.
BAR
Gintrap
(
www.gintrap.co.nz
;
64 West Quay, Ahuriri; 11am-late Mon-Fri, 9.30am-late Sat & Sun)
The pick of the big
rambling restaurant-bars out on the Ahuriri waterfront, where the city council is endeav-
ouring to isolate noisy after-dark crowds. Seafood in the sunshine (mains $19 to $32).
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Thirsty Whale
MAP
BAR
GOOGLE MAP
(
www.thethirstywhale.co.nz
;
62 West Quay, Ahuriri; 11am-late Mon-Fri, 9am-late Sat & Sun; )
Does a
whale drink? Or just filter krill? Either way, this big dockside bar is a sporty spot to join
some fellow mammals for a brew or a bite (mains $14 to $34). Becomes a dance club on
Friday and Saturday nights.
Entertainment
Napier Municipal Theatre
MAP
THEATRE
GOOGLE MAP
( 06-835 1059;
www.napiermunicipaltheatre.co.nz
;
119 Tennyson St; box office 9am-5pm Mon-Fri, to 12.30pm
Sat)
Not only the city's largest venue for the likes of rock concerts, dance and drama (1000
