The Top 22 Places to Eat Near Cicio Cacio
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Rank 1. Cicio Cacio
Italian
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Rank 2. Margot
New Zealand
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Rank 3. Logan Brown
Contemporary New American
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Rank 4. Ortega
Seafood
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Rank 5. Jano Bistro
Contemporary French
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Rank 6. Hummingbird
Modern French
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Rank 7. Damascus
Middle Eastern
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Rank 8. 1154 Pastaria
Italian
A casual pasta spot on Cuba Street where everything comes from fresh in-house dough made with free-range eggs and South Island semolina. The menu is short, the Bolognese is generous enough to silence the table, and a weekly special keeps regulars coming back. A long communal table makes you friends whether you planned on it or not. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which in this case means good food without the performance.
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Rank 9. Indian Alley
Indian
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Rank 10. Ombra
Venetian
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Rank 11. Kisa
Turkish
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Rank 12. Napoli
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 14. Rosella
Mediterranean
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Rank 16. Rita
New Zealand
A snug cottage in Aro Valley where the chef makes every decision for you, serving a three-course set menu that changes with each service. Named after the chef's grandmother, it has that energy. There's no agonizing over the menu, just whatever's good that day, often built around local kingfish or duck. Two sittings a night, and the kind of place where the booking fills up long before you thought to look.
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Rank 17. Highwater
New Zealand
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Rank 19. Graze
Vegetarian Wine Bar
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Rank 20. Charley Noble
Steakhouse
The rib-eye here gets 55 days of in-house dry-aging before it goes over mānuka and apple wood, which tells you most of what you need to know about the priorities. This is a steakhouse in Wellington's CBD, tucked into a historic building whose tall windows and high ceilings give it none of the dark, leathery gloom the genre usually insists on. Lumina lamb and market fish round out the menu for anyone who wandered in under peer pressure.
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Rank 21. Shed 5
Seafood
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Rank 22. 50-50
Modern New Zealand