Reviews of Old School Cafe, Bar and Restaurant. (Coffee Shop) in Richmond (Tasman).

Old School Cafe, Bar and Restaurant

167 Reviews

128 Comments

Coffee shop

Cafe

1115 Collingwood-Puponga Main Road, R.D.1, Collingwood 7073, New Zealand

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Information of Old School Cafe, Bar and Restaurant, Coffee shop in Richmond (Tasman)

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This place has good reviews, this means that they treat their customers well and you’ll feel great with their services, recommended 100%!

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Open hours of Old School Cafe, Bar and Restaurant

Sunday

11am–8pm

Monday

Closed

Tuesday

Closed

Wednesday

Closed

Thursday

Closed

Friday

4–8pm

Saturday

11am–8pm

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Reviews of Old School Cafe, Bar and Restaurant

We came for dinner after a day trip on the spit. This place had been recommended to us. We were not disappointed. Easy to find. Great parking. Once inside the roaring fire made you feel welcome. Amazing range of drinks. The food is simply amazing. The size of the mains are colossal and you need an empty stomach. A must visit. Highly recommend the Blue Cod.

Unassuming from the road but a great place with the best fish and chips I've had in NZ!

After a beautiful track to Wharariki beach, if you are tired and feel hungry, don't wait until you get to Nelson to have some food. Just hop in here. Trust me, the food here is going to blow your mind, probably the price too. But it definitely is worth it! It's a beautiful establishment. The steak is 😍😍, the pizza is mindblowing, and garlic bread😭😭😭😭, it was magical. I'm glad I stopped here for dinner.

Awesome . Super friendly. Great atmosphere. A hidden gem. Fabulous for campers pop Highly recommend. Pool room and school yard theme takes me back years🤣🤣I even recognise that strap😫😫😫

Great place for lunch,or evening meal, good menu to choose from, it has a bar, Jamie and Wendy the hosts were very helpful, and the sticky date pudding, made on the premises was just so yummy. Plenty of seating, indoors or out well worth a visit.

Wow, what a fantastic place to stay overnight, the staff are very friendly, the food is great, and for NZMCA Members, you may phone in and stay overnight. They also have a hot shower and toilets available. For a donation of $20 plus eating in the restaurant sitting in Mary's Corner on a couch, with our drinks, we were very happy. Continue from here just 10km drive up the road to Farewell Spit. Thank you for sharing this special place ❤

Good food, good service, nice ambiance and reasonable prices. Can't wait to go back.

Great set up in an amazing setting. Only real letdown is that the staff don't follow Covid food handling and prep rules. Face masks and slot of hand sanitizer required. But great food and friendly service.

Very good fish and chips, the chips are some of the best I have had.

A great stop over park for Self Contained members. 2 power points available. Very well maintained grounds.

Best restaurant I've ever been to. Highly recommend. Awesome staff. Best battered prawns.

Great service We had the battered fish and chips - fish was delicious, chips were cooked perfectly and salad was just right. Will likely be back tomorrow!

Excellent service, great food, even reserved a table for us so we could watch the super 15 rugby last night.

The food was good. It seems popular. I'd have preferred better compliance with Covid safety guidelines.

Very cool place you can see the school heretige of the building. The food wasn't flashy but it was very good.

We love this cafe/bar/restaurant and have camped in their grounds twice now. I always find the ambience and service of a cafe is improved when the owner works in it as they do here. The origins of the building as a School are clear, but the service and the ambience are entirely appropriate for a beachy settlement far away from city life. It's laid-back and relaxed, but with great personalised service, and a range of different kinds of tables inside and out to suit your style. The menu is excellent for a cafe with a challenging supply chain, with plenty of food on your plate at a reasonable price. A place we plan to return to.

Great cheese scones, warm fire and friendly staff. Will deinately stop here again.

Really cool set up and good food

Don’t expect too much of the menu, it is very British inspired with a lot of fried dishes. Very good feel to the place and a lot of people on a regular night. Perfect for campers with the POP outside on the grass, you can have a couple of beers and don’t need to drive anywhere after dinner. Just leave a contribution in the box for the stay. You can use the shower for a fee. Great stop if you’re up this way!

We loved this place. The meal, service and food was amazing and we would not hesitate to return. Next time we may park up our caravan on their site and will only need to walk there. Thank you to the staff for an enjoyable and unforgettable evening.

Always good to call in and catch up and have a meal

Great food. Ambience and friendly staff. Very enjoyable night out.

We had battered prawns an chips... omg yum, the chips were light an not over cooked. Perfect an the prawns wow... where can I get me some for home! So good. Great music playing in the back ground with the fire going. Awesome experience thanks again. Friendly staff A+++++

This was our “treat night” after a week of campervan food. It was definitely a treat! Two massive plates of blue cod and chips, a good Margaretha pizza and a great feed of pork belly. Everything was beautifully cooked, the service was great, warm atmosphere and cosy. Would highly recommend.

A well maintained building and very pretty gardens. Stayed for 3 nights in our motorhome. Spotless facilities. We had dinners and lunches. Superb food.

It's a great place with yummy food. Everything is really fresh and the people are friendly. We enjoyed our dinnef

I feel I've landed on a hidden gem tonight while going back to Nelson from Wharariki beach. Hungry and tired, and expecting nothing on our way back we found this restaurant and man were we delighted by the food and staff! If you're visiting the beach, do visit this restaurant! #Supportlocalbusinesses! We had Steak and meatlover pizza and it was amazing! Personal favorite was the garlic bread, it reminded me of home 😍💕

Amazing! Great food, friendly staff. Lovely place

Been on the road for 8months now and first Kea we have seen since we have been here. Can't only open weekends so didn't get to dine, but great pop camp

Love this place, great people, great atmosphere and fantastic food.

Stopped in for a coffee. Coffee was good. Hubby enjoyed his cheese scone while I enjoyed perusing the swap a book selection and the several on sale by local author. Friendly service, relaxing and warm spot to stop on a rainy day.

Nice setting complimented by friendly staff,yummy food to be enjoyed with a cracker beer,or a wine.Log fire,couch,inside and outside seating.Thanks folks

A wee gem of a place. Themed Cafe and bar. Food came quickly and was nicely cooked. . Went in the morning for coffee and was so impressed with the place went back later in day for dinner! If you are in the area we'll worth a visit.

.Great little eating place. Friendly staff. Meals looked great.

Very good menu food is beautiful and staff great.

Great place. Really good food and service. Would definitely recommend if you are in Abel Tasman.

Such a fun Cafe, perfect for a pint after a fun day exploring!

Fab place for a meal. Robbie & staff so helpful & nice

Good food and a really nice local ambience. Service was quick and friendly. What a pity this restaurant didn't showcase fresh local produce more. Present menu could be more interesting - much of it is from frozen but the cook is really good.

Great spot for some fish and chips and a pint. Family friendly.

Really enjoy going here. It really is old school. The food was delicious. Staff very obliging and helpful.

A most welcome cafe beyond Collingwood & before Farewell Spit. Enjoyed a morning coffee. Understandably, opened limited hours, but is open late over the weekend. Also has a liquor licence.

Wicked place, now restaurant was once an old school. Good beer and very good food. Cant wait to go back!

WOW!!! Highly recommended going there to anyone and everyone. The place is absolutely fantastic and the food is spectacular, we had the pork belly and we rate it very highly as a beautiful meal. Its warm and cozy with a log fire inside, the place is clean and tidy and the staff are really awesome. Thanks for a wonderful night at the Old School Cafe.

Absolutely awesome place Great place for a great meal Great atmosphere friendly staff

Great POP for a night and a bite after a trip out to the spit.

Great pub with large food portions

Lovely place. Food nice. Pleasant service

Very delicious food!

Nice food but not very child friendly at the time of visit. Even some high chairs would make us come back again faster 😊

This is our default eat out. Great food, good proportion, excellent gluten free options. Separate fryer for chips if you ask. Amazing local staff and owners! Good small town rustic atmosphere.

Gr8 lunch there 2day. Mental note to myself 4get about whitebaiting just go and get a feed from the team at the Old School Cafe thanks guys

This is our go to place when we want an awesome meal, its about a 1.5 hour trip from our home, so we stay the night at the Collingwood motor Camp in one of their nice cabins.

Awesome! Great food, I was so satisfied of my meal, as my mates!

Great food. Great atmosphere

Beautiful food great serving staff.

Amazing food, very friendly service!

Good food awesome staff and service 5+

Great food, excellent surroundings.

Great characterful cafe. Food is great, and the owners are extremely friendly.

Would definitely put our meal, and experience, in the "must do" box. The food was out of this world and the whole ambience was definitely worth booking for. Great hosts and service.

My wife and I had a superb meal on Sunday evening. We can highly recommend this establishment. The seafood chowder was amazing as was the soup of the day and the vegetable samosas. Very friendly staff and great surroundings. Excellent!!

Very pleasant stay, very tidy and clean, pleasant owners and so great having a cafe.

Good sized portions, friendly staff and owners, nice atmosphere

This is a MUST DO place. So welcoming food amazing and seating inside and out. Glad we have found this gem.

We stayed the night here, with belonging to The MCMAssoc. Very welcoming host. Will try cafe tomorrow as we were a bit late arriving today.

Great people. Awesome food. Try the pork belly or blue cod. Great country food home cooked. Working as a team.

Best food in Golden bay

Just love the service and excellent food, thanks Robbie.

Very helpful and friendly restaurant.

Excellent food. Clean AND cosy place, best Fish&Chips we ever had in NZ. A true gem! Big recommendation.

Top service. Wholesome tasty food. Clean and quaint environment.

Great old school conversion to a Bar Restaurant.

Above my expectations. Reasonably priced considering the location. Friendly atmosphere and a little bit of local history.

Busy place today. Rum lovely

Great place very tidy and clean . great atmosphere

Old School Cafe never disappoints. Food always fresh and great flavour. Friendly, easy service.

Well worth the drive from Collingwood. Make sure you book if dining at night.

What a great little restaurant! We stopped in the little town of Pakawau while exploring the top of the South Island. We stopped in for dinner. The food was great, the portions sizable and the service friendly. Can't ask for much more. There's some art for sale too if you're interested. The school them comes through in the set up of the cafe but it's not overdone. It just makes it a bit interesting. Will stop by again when we're up here. Great place.

Good food in a lovely courtyard attached to cafe for casual interaction.

Great meal. Warm and welcoming

Such wonderful food and service was awesome.

A lovely meal at a nice cafe. A bit noisy but we still enjoyed ourselves.

Yummy food, amazing service <3

Friendly service, great food and plenty of reading material

Great venue to pop into for a Glass of red wine, snacks and delicious seafood chowder, after a long trek :)

Eating and/drinking here is a must to experience local hospitality, great pub food and pleasant locals and visitors.

We just keep returning for our Pork Belly and Deserts, plus pleasant Caravan Park over, thanks Guys and Gals, wonderful atmosphere and Golden Bay! shhhhhh

Warm and cosy. Great food and atmosphere. Pool and darts, had a great afternoon.

It was very delicious and nice

Nice atmosphere and nice staff! Really enjoyed our short stay there after the walk at wharariki beach

Very friendly, a good place to park and shelter from the extreme weather

The pizza was one of the best my wife and I have ever had. It was the Cranberry Chicken. Cool funky but relaxing atmosphere. If we are in the region we will certainly be back.

Love coming here pity it's so far away.

Great historic atmosphere, calm and nice food, very friendly service.

If you want a relaxed, evening ( or afternoon) with great food, this is where you go. You'll love it. .. the couple running the place (and their cat) welcome everyone with genuine warmth.

It's great to have such a relaxed, friendly place this far west. The food is good, better than pub grub but relaxed and unpretentious. They purposefully cater for locals year round, providing a place to eat and drink and welcome travellers when they turn up. The menu is a mix of dishes covering differnt meats. I had a vegetarian pizza, which was delicious. I don't remember anything specifically for vegans on the menu, but I'm sure they would be the kind of place that would "whip something up" They also make a great coffee worth going back for. We will definately continue to visit.

Nice pizza and beer, friendly staff

Best wait staff ever, Laura thank you xx

Great place nice views had inside and outside areas

Don't know about Cafe, we just stayed 2 nights at one of the campervan power sites

Healthy food. Big portions. Good ambience.

Great food and hospitality.

I live in Takaka, visit the Old School House Cafe regularly and love the place. The owners & staff are very friendly and interactive with both locals and visitors. They are also happy to accommodate requests regarding changes to meals = no bread with steak sandwich (Which I might add is always beautifully cooked and still my favourite thing on the menu) with just a few chips instead of their usual very generous portion.

Absolutely beautiful meal

This cafe in an old schoolmhousevhss indoor dining sndxa lovelybsheltered sunny courtyard. It was an oasis og calm on a wildly windy day. The food was very nice. Mussels have a curry and coriander mayo on the side which goes perfectly with steam mussels. Also it had grilled ciabatta with it. Staff are excellent