Off The Track Restaurant and Licenced Cafe is a cafe in Central Hawke's Bay country, rated 4.5 on Google, with details and directions on its website. In rural New Zealand a licenced cafe straddles two trades: cabinet food and flat whites for passing drivers in the morning, then proper restaurant meals at lunch, with the licence allowing a glass of wine or a beer alongside the plate rather than leaving that to the towns. Country kitchens tend to run to the rural clock and close mid-afternoon, so travellers do well to plan around lunch rather than dinner, and a full car park outside an unassuming building is usually the surest sign of good cooking. Out among Central Hawke's Bay's farmland, Off The Track is a stopping point worth keeping in mind for the drive.