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Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses
Experience Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct
Join us for eating, drinking, and entertainment
16 local businesses

EAT & DRINK

Beer Cafe
Atlas Beer Cafe
Atlas Beer Cafe is the place for craft beers, delicious lunches, fantastic coffee, amazing tapas and famous steaks in Queenstown. Aside from the legendary Atlas steak, Atlas sports an eclectic menu that matches its clientele. This spot on the waterfront is perfect for an afternoon or evening brew with your mates.
Bar & Restaurant
Boardwalk
Enjoy arguably the best lake and mountain views in Queenstown from the first-floor bar & restaurant in historic Steamer Wharf. Boardwalk is relaxed, welcoming and serves up delicious seafood, steaks and burgers every day from 5pm. Looking for a drink with a view? Head upstairs to the Rocks Bar at Boardwalk and you won’t be disappointed!
Italian
Farelli’s by Giovi
House made pasta, pizza and desserts, Italian wines from our family vineyard, local and imported craft beers
Seafood & Grill
Finz Seafood & Grill
Whilst specialising in seafood, Finz will also tempt you with cuts of Prime New Zealand Beef and Southland Lamb. We take pride in our hand picked wine selection, including Central Otago Pinot Noir and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Chat with our knowledgeable staff about the perfect wine match for your meal. Soak up the views and enjoy some of the best kiwi produce from the sea and from the land.‍
“Steamer Wharf caters for every occasion. From coffee to craft beers, to live music and an ice bar, you will be spoilt for choice!”

There’s something for everyone here

BBQ & Steak
Flame Bar & Grill
Flame has been a favourite Queenstown Steak restaurant for over a decade and of course we are famous for our ribs. We are a restaurant of course, but we pride ourselves on the welcoming and enthusiastic service we bring to every table.
Cocktail Bar
Little Blackwood
Little Blackwood is a locals’ favourite, offering seasonal delights throughout the year. Warm the soul after a chilly winters day with their famous mulled wine or Amaretto hot toddy or wind down from a classic adventure-filled day in Queenstown and watch the sunset from the lakefront patio with a cold brew.
Fine Dining
Pier
Pier offers the feeling of fine dining in a spectacular waterfront location but without the pomp.

Queenstown's favourite lakeside precinct.
Come and explore our local businesses

Kiwi Pub
Pub on Wharf
Pub On Wharf is the quintessentially laid back Kiwi pub. With live gigs every night of the week this is the place to come for a warm, casual atmosphere full of mates and brand new mates intent on having a relaxed good time.
Kitchen & Bar
Public Kitchen & Bar
Offering you exceptional local cuisine, Public Kitchen & Bar is all about local produce hunted in the hills, farmed down the road or caught off the coast. This is the place to experience Kiwi classics and grassroots cooking in a relaxed and informal style, right on the edge of Lake Wakatipu.
Vietnamese
Saigon Kingdom Vietnamese Restaurant
Saigon Kingdom is, in true Asian style, all about the food! Serving traditional Vietnamese dishes like the trending noodle soups Pho Bo and Pho Ga, alongside a great selection of popular dishes from throughout South East Asia, your tastebuds with thank you for the experience.
“Lakefront destination for every kind of event and celebration”

Events

All Day Dining
Sunfire
Sunfire is brought to you by the team behind the acclaimed brother restaurant, Flame Bar & Grill. Casual dining and incredible flavours on Queenstown’s lake edge. All day, every day. Mimosas for breakfast, lazy long lunches and relaxed dinners with good friends.
Beer Cafe
Atlas Beer Cafe
Atlas Beer Cafe is the place for craft beers, delicious lunches, fantastic coffee, amazing tapas and famous steaks in Queenstown. Aside from the legendary Atlas steak, Atlas sports an eclectic menu that matches its clientele. This spot on the waterfront is perfect for an afternoon or evening brew with your mates.
Bar & Restaurant
Boardwalk
Enjoy arguably the best lake and mountain views in Queenstown from the first-floor bar & restaurant in historic Steamer Wharf. Boardwalk is relaxed, welcoming and serves up delicious seafood, steaks and burgers every day from 5pm. Looking for a drink with a view? Head upstairs to the Rocks Bar at Boardwalk and you won’t be disappointed!
Italian
Farelli’s by Giovi
House made pasta, pizza and desserts, Italian wines from our family vineyard, local and imported craft beers
Seafood & Grill
Finz Seafood & Grill
Whilst specialising in seafood, Finz will also tempt you with cuts of Prime New Zealand Beef and Southland Lamb. We take pride in our hand picked wine selection, including Central Otago Pinot Noir and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. Chat with our knowledgeable staff about the perfect wine match for your meal. Soak up the views and enjoy some of the best kiwi produce from the sea and from the land.‍
BBQ & Steak
Flame Bar & Grill
Flame has been a favourite Queenstown Steak restaurant for over a decade and of course we are famous for our ribs. We are a restaurant of course, but we pride ourselves on the welcoming and enthusiastic service we bring to every table.
Cocktail Bar
Little Blackwood
Little Blackwood is a locals’ favourite, offering seasonal delights throughout the year. Warm the soul after a chilly winters day with their famous mulled wine or Amaretto hot toddy or wind down from a classic adventure-filled day in Queenstown and watch the sunset from the lakefront patio with a cold brew.
Ice Bar
MINUS 5º ICE BAR
Enter a world crafted purely of ICE. Even their infamous cocktails are served in glasses made entirely out of ICE!
Fine Dining
Pier
Pier offers the feeling of fine dining in a spectacular waterfront location but without the pomp.
Kiwi Pub
Pub on Wharf
Pub On Wharf is the quintessentially laid back Kiwi pub. With live gigs every night of the week this is the place to come for a warm, casual atmosphere full of mates and brand new mates intent on having a relaxed good time.
Kitchen & Bar
Public Kitchen & Bar
Offering you exceptional local cuisine, Public Kitchen & Bar is all about local produce hunted in the hills, farmed down the road or caught off the coast. This is the place to experience Kiwi classics and grassroots cooking in a relaxed and informal style, right on the edge of Lake Wakatipu.
Vietnamese
Saigon Kingdom Vietnamese Restaurant
Saigon Kingdom is, in true Asian style, all about the food! Serving traditional Vietnamese dishes like the trending noodle soups Pho Bo and Pho Ga, alongside a great selection of popular dishes from throughout South East Asia, your tastebuds with thank you for the experience.
All Day Dining
Sunfire
Sunfire is brought to you by the team behind the acclaimed brother restaurant, Flame Bar & Grill. Casual dining and incredible flavours on Queenstown’s lake edge. All day, every day. Mimosas for breakfast, lazy long lunches and relaxed dinners with good friends.
Lake Cruise
The TSS Earnslaw by RealNZ
Travel on Queenstown's most iconic experience, the TSS Earnslaw, believed to be the oldest working coal-fired steamship. Cruise across Lake Whakatipu and disembark at Walter Peak High Country Farm for an interactive farm tour or a gourmet BBQ dining experience.

FIND your
INNER FOODIE

Discover restaurants & bars

Steamer Wharf is situated right on the edge of Lake Wakatipu and is a popular spot with views down to Walter and Cecil Peak over the Remarkables and Queenstown.

  Cuisine with an amazing view.

  There’s a diverse choice to restaurants and bars from Delicious Seafood to pub grub, vietnamese and a cocktail bar.

  Enjoy the famous wines and tastes of New Zealand, all on the waters edge. 

MAKE YOUR OWN
UNIQUE MEMORIES

Enter an intricately carved ice world or go back in time on Queenstown’s century old steam ship. It's time to make memories you’ll never forget.

Discover entertainment & activities

  Cuisine on the only authentic coal-fired passenger-carrying steamship left in the southern hemisphere.

  Enter a world crafted purely of ICE. Everything from the walls and furniture to the bar and intricately hand carved statues are made from over 18 tonnes of crystal clear ICE.

 

The History of Steamer Wharf

From a small wooden jetty and timber yard to the tourist hub that is Steamer Wharf today, the story of Steamer Wharf reflects the history of Queenstown itself.

1862

Commercial shipping on Lake Wakatipu quickly became a lucrative business

 Gold is discovered in Arrowtown in 1862 and starts the subsequent Otago gold rush.

1863

The original structure of Steamer Wharf was a small private jetty owned and built in 1863 by timber company Robertson and Company.

   The jetty is constructed in Queenstown catering to the private companies operating sail and steam ships around the lake.

1868

An upgrade to the jetty meant the Robertson & Co wharf became the primary docking place for larger vessels.

   Alongside a jetty upgrade, an early settler Daniel McBride acquires the timber yards and wharf along with two steamers the Antrim and Venus.

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