The Stables Restaurant & Events Venue - Matakana Country Park

The Team at the stables made our wedding day perfect! Very punctual with food service and amazing quality food. Bar staff very helpful. Amazing convient location. Great amount of parking. Very easy to communicate with and incredibly flexible with our ideas for what we wanted. The team set up the venue picture perfect and made it very easy the next day. Nic's communication and genuine want for us to have the perfect day was amazing. The all around care was amazing for our wedding of 100-120.

It’s been a while since we have been equally impressed across our main 3 areas of rating a restaurant. In order of the experiences- Customer service is 5 star, as a team they are in unison with each other, my husband commented saying he likes the fact that you can’t tell who owns the restaurant because each of the staff display a passionate sense of ownership for the restaurant. Very proud, friendly staff who are not obnoxious, and we really value that. A sense that a place is more than just employment, a togetherness on the floor that is true kiwiana manaakitanga and it is shared throughout. Family friendliness is a 5 star, we like to dine with our young family of 3 children often, and The Stables team are at the front of making the experience a pleasant one. The contemporary country setting is beautiful, horses going by and accessible playground equipment outside on far side of the park. Great for the children to run off steam with relaxing scenery as the backdrop. Yes, they have colouring ins, as entry to a competition to get a half price meal for the next visit. A thoughtful and effective way to have children waiting patiently for their meals is always a tick. That brings me to the 5 Star kai (food). Perfectly prompt, signs of a well organised kitchen and it definitely shows! Quality fresh local produce with presentation seen in a la carte dining. I thoroughly enjoyed my fresh line caught Leigh snapper. My husband enjoyed the crispy duck breast dish and my eldest had the chicken supreme, 10/10 all three cooked perfectly tender. We were so impressed by the dedicated chefs, and The Stables not missing a beat. Also, the garlic bread with olives is a must! Now for the childrens menu, simple quality indgredients which for our youngest fussy eaters was perfect, especially because our children have ASD tastebuds, so we usually find that even the herb sprinkles over pizza, chips or pasta is enough to turn our children away. I asked kindly that if they do usually serve with herbs, if they could leave them off and it was honored with no problem. Not once did we feel our requests were an inconvenience, which these days is hard to find. The Stables child friendliness was apparent and well received and anyone who dines with a young family will know how important this is. Drinks- gin lovers must try the Rhubard Tonic. We enjoyed all our drinks especially the TED Otago Pinot Noir. Deserts- don’t give it a miss! We value experience over pricing so like anyone else like to feel that we got what we paid for and we absolutely feel we did and very happy to tip this place. Just entirely worth it and highly recommend. Thank you for contributing to a wonderful Mother’s day, it was the first without my husband’s mother who recently passed away and we couldn’t have asked for a more memorable way to have commemorated the day. We will definitely be back to try your steak and rib Fridays!

Beautiful location only minutes away from Matakana Village, delicious food, awesome service by Zee and Ali. Family friendly for young family, children's park, train rides, horse rides and lots more.

Just want to say a big thank you to the team at the stables last weekend for our amazing wedding day. The whole team made our wedding perfect. Everything was how we wanted it to be. It was very easy to communicate with Nic during the whole process as well. Our guests all complimented how great the wedding was. Highly recommend The Stables as your wedding venue :D

My wife and I just had a wedding here this weekend. This venue was gorgeous and I couldn't recommend a better place to have your wedding. The staff are all very friendly and cater to your wedding exactly how you want it done. So much effort was put in to make our day extra special. Thank you all. Special shout out to Zee who really looked after us throughout the whole night and was very friendly and helpful. Thanks again

We had the most special experience at The Stables recently. They were able to cater for a wedding party of 90 with only minutes to make this important decision. The original venue was unable to fulfill their promise and The Stables were contacted and were ready, willing and able to cater for this unexpected event on a Sunday evening. The staff were professional, obliging and super efficient. Their generosity of spirit and 'can do' attitude helped make this wedding a most memorable occasion. Heartfelt thanks to all the team at The Stables.

It was a cozy venue for a special event. Had a small chapel ideal for a private kind of wedding. Food was good but has still room to get better.

Absolutely amazing! The Stables saved our wedding day! With an hours notice they prepared, on a Sunday afternoon, to host 91 guests with no prior knowledge. A venue across the road let us down, an hour before walking down the aisle, but Stables saved us! They understand major events, they understand weddings, the understand customer service, it was all heart!