Fine-dining Kiwi restaurant in central Queenstown with a menu that changes daily — think veal sweetbreads, kingfish crudo and Cloudy Bay clams.
Rātā sits in a laneway off Ballarat Street in the middle of town, a few steps from the historic stone buildings at the top of the mall. It is fine dining without the stiffness — dark timber, a wall of ferns, and a room that hums rather than hushes.
The menu changes daily around what is good that week. Expect small plates before the starters proper, then dishes built on New Zealand produce: goat's cheese profiteroles, pork terrine, Cloudy Bay clams, kingfish crudo with confit ginger, veal sweetbreads. Mains lean on well-sourced cuts and whatever the boats have landed.
Dinner runs seven nights from 5pm. Lunch is Friday, Saturday and Sunday, midday to 2.30pm. Book ahead — it fills through the winter ski season and over the Christmas and January stretch.
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