We moved on to have dinner at the World Heritage Hotel Pub. Really good. Turns out to be one of the better places we ate, which surprised everyone over the course of the week. I had sweet potato and capsicum soup – yes, another big bowl – followed by a miso salmon with veggie and rice. Different than my miso salmon, but still very good. Much better than the salmon and béarnaise at Capriccio in Wanaka the night before.
Because it was the only place in town with veggies, the restaurant was packed. It was also a popular watering hole with the locals. We had a 45 mintue wait for dinner, so we took over one of the pool tables while we consumed some wine. The red drinkers were having a cab/merlot blend, but I stuck with the Wither Hills Sauv Blanc. Turns out that Jenny is quite the pool shark (she has a pool table in her garage back in Wanaka or something like that). Karsten wasn’t bad either, but he had me on his team. Malcolm was Jenny’s teammate. Eventually my dinner showed up and Dave took my spot on the team. I think Karsten became much happier at that point. And I joined the Helen, Imogen and Catherine at the table to check out the guys…