The Top 22 Places to Eat Near Graze
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Rank 1. Graze
Vegetarian Wine Bar
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Rank 2. Jano Bistro
Contemporary French
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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. 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 6. 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 9. Kisa
Turkish
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Rank 10. Highwater
New Zealand
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Rank 11. Ombra
Venetian
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Rank 12. 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 13. Hummingbird
Modern French
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Rank 14. Shed 5
Seafood
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Rank 15. Indian Alley
Indian
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Rank 16. Damascus
Middle Eastern
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Rank 17. Napoli
Neapolitan Pizza
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Rank 19. Rosella
Mediterranean
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Rank 20. Cicio Cacio
Italian
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Rank 21. Margot
New Zealand
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Rank 22. 50-50
Modern New Zealand