Cheek & Chong is a restaurant and bar at 348 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa 0931 — on the coast road through the Hatfields Beach area of the Hibiscus Coast. It keeps a simple, generous schedule: open at 11am and serving 'till late', every day from Monday through Sunday.
The offering is split cleanly between kitchen and bar. An All Day Menu runs the full food selection from opening until close, two set menus — Ha Long and Hoi An — offer a choose-once, share-together format, and a dedicated Drink Menu covers the bar side of 'Restaurant & Bar'. All of the menus are published as downloadable PDFs on the website, so you can preview before you visit.
Booking is straightforward — a reservation form on the site, an email to [email protected], or a call to 09 421 1123 — and digital gift cards are sold through the site's e-Voucher link. The restaurant shares its latest news on Facebook, and sets its tone with a Ruth Reichl quote front and centre: 'Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.'
On the Hibiscus Coast Highway, at number 348 in Orewa, Cheek & Chong keeps a schedule that's easy to remember: open at 11am, every day of the week, 'till late'. Monday through Sunday, no mid-week shortcuts. That kind of all-day, every-day window shapes what the place is — a restaurant and bar where an early lunch, an afternoon drink and a later dinner are all within the same room's remit.
The site bills the business, in its own words, as 'a new kid on the block', and it sets its tone with a quote from Ruth Reichl: 'Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.' Whatever else changes, the invitation is clear — this is a table meant to be sat at, not rushed through.
The menu structure splits cleanly in two. The All Day Menu is the backbone: the full food offering, served from the moment doors open at 11am until close, so what you can order doesn't depend on the clock. Alongside it runs a dedicated Drink Menu — the bar half of 'Restaurant & Bar' is a listed, deliberate part of the offering rather than an afterthought.
Both are published as downloadable PDFs on the website, which makes it simple to have a look before you go, whether you're planning a full meal or just working out where to meet for a drink.
Beyond the all-day list, Cheek & Chong publishes two set menus: Ha Long and Hoi An. The names borrow from two of Vietnam's best-known destinations, and the format points to a particular way of eating — one decision made for the whole table rather than a dozen made by each diner. Set menus like this tend to earn their keep with groups, celebrations, and anyone who'd rather say 'bring it out' than deliberate over a list.
As with the all-day menu, both set menus can be downloaded from the website. For specifics on what each includes — courses and how they're structured — the menus themselves or the bookings team are the place to ask; the restaurant takes bookings at [email protected] and on 09 421 1123.
Reservations are handled three ways: a reservation form on the website, the bookings email, or a phone call. Given the restaurant runs one long service window from 11am until late, seven days a week, ringing ahead is the obvious move for weekend evenings or larger tables — especially if a set menu is on your mind.
If you'd rather let someone else choose, the site sells e-Vouchers — digital gift cards that turn a meal at Cheek & Chong into a present. And for keeping current, the restaurant points visitors to its Facebook page for the latest news, alongside a gallery for a look at the space before you arrive.
The address is 348 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa 0931 — the listing places it at Hatfields Beach, on the main coast road that runs up the Hibiscus Coast. Hours are Monday to Sunday, 11am till late. The phone number is 09 421 1123 and the bookings inbox is [email protected].
There's something refreshingly unfussy about a place that tells you exactly what it is: a restaurant and bar with an all-day menu, two set menus named for Vietnamese destinations, a drink list, and doors that open every day at 11. The rest — the taste, the room, the pace of a long evening — is waiting at the table. As the quote on their own site puts it: life is so endlessly delicious.