Waipiata Country Hotel

Bloody yummy meals and fun chatty staff. Gorgeous roaring fire on a cooler night. Best home made pies that you can order online too!! We didn’t stay in the accommodation but my mum has and said it was wonderful. Highly recommend popping in for a meal or beverage or two

Got word of the pies when passing through the area so made a side trip from Ranfurly. The pies are large and very nice. Friendly host, and a lovely old pub. Interesting history to the town and surrounding area including having one of 5 TB sanitoriums set up around the country around the 1930s.

A great country hotel. Great service, fantastic food, very helpful staff.

You walk in and greeted by a warm and old style country pub. It took a minute to get our bearings, but once we found a table, the food was amazing the service friendly. We had the steak and cheese pie with vege and mash, chicken burger, beef burger, and steak sandwich. All were generous and tasty. We were doing the rail trail, this was the best food on the trip by a country mile.

Delicious food and great service - despite being incredibly busy the night we visited. Our meals were generous, and they good range of beers on tap. The staff were helpful and ensured our meals catered for our dietary requirements. Totally recommend this place!

3 of us tried their pies, steak and cheese and steak and blue cheese. Now you would imagine that in a steak and cheese pie there would be two specific tastes, steak and cheese. Thats where you are wrong, none of could taste the cheese in either of their pies. We ended up taking the top offr to check and saw a small amount of cheese but not enough to taste as it was overpowered by everything else. The meat, sauce and pastry were good but it ended up being a plain LARGE meat pie. I couldnt rate this pie any better as there was no cheese to taste and thats whats it is sold as. Ne needs to stop being stingy and be more generous with his cheese.