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Ocean View Restaurant

A new menu is available TODAY in our Ocean View Restaurant. Enjoy coconut prawns and whitebait while watching the sunset or enjoy a glass of wine with a selection from our platter menu on the balcony. 

• Evening a la carte menu
• Platters available daily 4:30-9pm

Driftwood Café

Our Driftwood Café is now open for evening meals Thursdays to Sundays in addition to our normal breakfast and lunch hours. We have also updated our menus so please have a look!

• Breakfast daily 7-11am. Breakfast menu
• Lunch daily 11am- 3pm and dinner Thurs to Sun from 5:30pm. Lunch and dinner menu

AA is running a promotion to encourage Kiwis to get out and take a road trip. We are all for it! Beachfront Hotel is part of this promotion and if you stay with us or buy from our restaurant, cafe or bar you can be in to win some great prizes. Read more at  http://www.aatravel.co.nz/gkrt/.

Mike King, one of New Zealand’s funniest men will be visiting us in Hokitika. Why not come along and have a good laugh?

Next week is Conservation Week and the hotel will be participating in a Beach Clean Up and Sausage Sizzle to help celebrate. The Clean Up is Saturday, 18 Sept: 10am-12noon at Hokitika’s Weld Lane Beach Access. We hope to see you there! For more details of what is on during the week visit http://www.conservationweek.org.nz

Singing star Anika Moa will be playing in Hokitika 20 Nov! http://www.anikamoa.com

A year ago, as part of the A Day at the Beach festival, over 2000 West Coasters took part protecting their coastline by planting trees and removing rubbish from beaches. Now, it is time to celebrate this effort with The Grand Celebration at the Hokitika Regent Theatre from 5:30pm, Friday 3 Sept. There will be a whitebait relay race, live music, screenings of entries into the West Coast Film Challenge and the premiere of  the movie looking at the festival from 2009. We’d love to see you there! More information at http://www.adayatthebeach.org.nz/.

There is less than one week to go until the opening of the whitebaiting season on the West Coast! For those who do not know, whitebait is a juvenile fish caught with nets near the lower reaches of rivers. They are a true delicacy – small, sweet and tender and perfect in a fritter. Let’s hope they run well this season!

On Saturday, 14 August, a fundraising event called A Hot Concert on a Cold August Night is being held at Hokitika’s Regent Theatre to raise funds for improved stage lighting and sound equipment. The Regent is a 1935 Art Deco theatre that has been refurbished over recent years to boast the latest technology including 3D film capability. It is a multiuse theatre for films, events, stage productions and concerts. For more information, visit http://www.hokitikaregent.com/.

A website managed by the NZ National Library is helping West Coasters preserve historical family documents and promoting local history to an international audience. The Kete West Coast website is growing daily with local families able to upload digitised photos, documents, audio, video and written stories.  See more at http://ketewestcoast.peoplesnetworknz.info/