Pescatore Restaurant

Fine dining at its best. Great food, wine and service

The most delicious, outstanding Fine Dining experience. The staff were attentive and were expert in telling us about every dish that was brought to our table. Extensive wine choice but most of all..the little dishes of palate cleansers were very delicious too. Definitely will return.

This was a fantastic experience. I can not rate it high enough. When you get there you might be a bit suspicious with it being in a strip mall but put this down to the Christchurch earthquakes. The front of house looks like nice pub/restaurant but the really fantastic part is when they took us to the restaurant out the back. We had the 9-course degustation and it was brilliant. All the food was delicious with out being over powering or confusing. The service was very attentive while being gentle and friendly. Go here!!

Chic refined excellent service good food interesting wine list one of the best restaurants I ate in Christchurch

The 10 course degustation was a brilliant start to my weekend in Christchurch with family and friends. This is an experience, like opera under the stars. Where every dish compliments the previous dish but also exceeds the dish in the same note. The service was impeccable and like all great restaurants, very accommodating to all our needs. Thank you to all the staff at Pescatore for such a wonderful evening, we will definitely dining here again in the near future. Beaudine

A very refined and polished performance from a very professional restaurant. The young manager and North American gentleman whom served us were exceptional. It was our first time at Pescatore and it was an unforgettable encounter. Our snapper was sensational and the morsels of appetizers and other nibbles we were given were just absolutely divine. Well done. I loved our table site too! Such a beautiful vista of our gorgeous Hagley Park and the beautiful people bustling by. Many thanks!

Food was good, not great, not terrible. Waitress was very nice and pleasant. The reason I gave this resteraunt a 2 star vs an easily achievable 4 star is solely due to the manager. He told us there was no availability the night before and then was able to squeeze us into a 6 o'clock cancellation. We arrived promptly and there was only one other table occupied. By the time we left there were only four tables occupied nearly two hours later. When confronted he lied and told me there were twenty people waiting downstairs. As you exit the resteraunt you have to walk downstairs and there was not one person waiting. Good decent, service was very good with the exception of the manager. Would never return unless there is a new manager.

Great service, friendly staff, awesome food. So many little extras included in the meal! And they were really good about my pregnancy - they brought out a seafood appetiser that I couldn't eat so they took it away and appeared a minute later with an alternate appetiser. The wait staff knew the food they were serving really well and explained everything thoroughly and everything was cooked to near perfection.

why why why?? i was SO close to giving a GLOWING review....and then their restaurant manager ruined the deal...to be covered in the service portion ambiance//***** the restaurant's ambiance is modernly upscale without pomp or circumstance when you step through the quilted doors, the reception area's chandelier provides a hint of the glamour that awaits! the coolest thing is the wall decor made of burnt zip ties.....who knew something so ordinary could be elevated exponentially?? service//** the waitstaff, and especially hostess eiko was pleasant for the most part halfway through, i discovered an EARWIG in my water O_O EWWWW! the waiter took my glass away without an apology...and we had to ask for new glasses it was extremely disconcerting...and my cousin was upset enough to mention it to eiko when she was taking care of our bill....she was equally horrified and apologized quickly moving to inform her manager the manager merely said they would write a report so the entire staff would know....uh...WHAT? they didn't even have the decency to comp us for our drinks...HOW RUDE food//***** there are 3 dining options...the 12 dish pre-fixe . 5 dish middle menu . or a la carte we decided to go with the 5 dish and ordered each of the available choices...so we really had 10 dishes and a few extras like the amuse bouche kickoff their dishes were delightfully plated and tasted exquisitely delicate...favourites of ours include the fried oyster . smoked eggplant . cured venison with a name like pescatore, it's a given their seafood would be delightful....but their meats were also prepared with elegance the 8 textures of white was the only disappoint, but the milk & honey was lovely the paper thing dessert crisps were the lovely end ~*~ how i would have liked to recommend you highly....but all i can say is check your water!! i know for years to come, pescatore will be remembered as our weird earwig experience.....can't say you didn't make it a memorable night

Brilliant staff and food! The oyster dish would be my all time favourite meal. Wonderful and posh ambience. Definitely a degistation venue you do not want to miss!