MealGarden BBQ Restaurant is a barbecue restaurant inside the Captain Cook Motor Lodge at 31 Awapuni Road in Awapuni, Gisborne. The website says a new restaurant is coming soon, so the offer may change once it opens.
The menu centres on Korean barbecue beef, pork and fried chicken wings for dinner, with small plates to share and a breakfast menu. The website also lists Korean food delivery, drinks including coffee, and a private party venue hire. A seafood platter is listed at $20 for a half and $35 for a full, as at 2026. Breakfast is listed from 7am to 9am and dinner from 5pm to 8pm, Monday to Saturday. Open Locally lists four other restaurants within a kilometre, and the nearest with a rating is Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, 0.8 kilometres away, rated 4.4 from 374 reviews. Our view is that it is a good place for a Korean barbecue in Awapuni.