Town Tonic Cafe & Restaurant- Christchurch

A short stroll from Orangetheory Stadium, Christchurch, creative dining space **Town Tonic Cafe & Restaurant** is the perfect pre-game spot for a bite to eat.

Your eyes are met with lush hanging plants draping from the ceiling as you take a seat at a wooden table beneath the intricate lattice screens. Enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner overlooking the kitchen busy at work behind the pass and indulge in an imaginative dining experience where fresh produce is prepared daily.

There's an all-encompassing guarantee that there's a dish to suit and satisfy from their gorgeously crafted All Day menu, Dinner Menu and Dessert Menu. For starters, kick things off with a playful twist, like the Prawn Popcorn, accompanied by pickled fennel, crispy curry leaves, and toasted sesame. The TT Bang Bang Chicken(crowd pleaser) is also the perfect sharable bite, served with gochujang kewpie, house kimchi, and togarashi.

To follow, go for a clever rework of a classic like the Confit Chicken Leg. Served with carrot puree, braised red cabbage, roasted carrots, whipped sour cream, carrot chips, and shallot brown butter, it's certainly not what your grandma would serve up. Also on offer, you'll find a show-stopping Aged Beef Fillet served up with truffle mash, seasonal vegetables, balsamic onion, puffed buckwheat, and cognac au jus.

Round things off with some naughtiness and sweet simplicity with a round of Short Bread cookie or Triple Chocolate Delice that crackle when you first break into them like a creme brûlée top. In a rush? They have to-go boxes ready to be picked up too so you can grab your snacks and head to the game. Town Tonic Cafe & Restaurant combine culinary inventiveness with an intimate and cool dining atmosphere to die for."