The Mangatera Hotel is a country pub at 391 High Street in Dannevirke, with a family-style licensed restaurant, a sports bar, a lounge bar and a beer garden. The restaurant menu includes sirloin steak, Kiwi classic fish and chips and a children's menu. Desserts include warm apple cinnamon cake, raspberry chocolate brownie and banana fritters. The bar menu has steak sandwiches, fish burgers, pizzas and nachos, and it can be eaten in the sports bar, the lounge bar or the beer garden. The hotel also caters for private functions, with set menus per head or buffets, and offers takeaway during restaurant hours. There is a weekly quiz night.
The sports bar has seven big screen TVs, with racing from the trackside on three of them, and screens rugby, league, netball and cricket in season. The bar pours Lion Breweries beers on tap, DB beers and ready-to-drink drinks, and it has a self-service TAB, a charity gaming room, two dartboards and a pool table. Next door, Super Liquor Dannevirke is owned by the same owners and sells beer, wine and spirits.