CBK Craft Bar & Kitchen Kaiapoi is a craft beer bar and restaurant on Hilton Street, billing itself as Kaiapoi's premier drinking and dining experience. The kitchen takes its inspiration from around the world — a tasting journey through Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Rim and Asia, with a few side trips along the way — and pairs it with an extensive craft beer and beverage range, a dedicated tap beer and cider list, cocktails and a proper mocktail menu.
The venue's signature is the Stonegrill Experience, built into the menu as the perfect complement to the drinks lineup, with dishes like the beef rump finishing on hot stone at the table. Brunch runs every day until 3pm, from the BLT and SLC bagels through eggs bene, mushroom rosti, quesadilla, fried chicken and bacon waffles and the Butchers Breakfast. Midweek brings rituals of its own: blackboard lunch deals, loaded Chicken Parma Wednesdays and Thursday CBK Club Nights with loyalty perks.
Beyond dinner, CBK Kaiapoi doubles as the town's living room for big occasions — quiz fundraiser nights, live All Blacks screenings on the biggest TV in town with full breakfast, brunch and bar service, gift cards and a CBK Loyalty App. Doors open from 11am on weekdays and 10am on weekends, running until late, with no surcharge on public holidays.
On Hilton Street in the heart of Kaiapoi, CBK Craft Bar & Kitchen does exactly what its name promises: a serious craft beer bar married to a kitchen that travels the world. The venue bills itself as Kaiapoi's premier drinking and dining experience, and it backs that up with an extensive craft beer and beverage range and a menu inspired by Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific Rim and Asia — with a few side trips along the way. Weekdays the doors open at 11am, weekends from 10am, and everything runs until late.
The signature is the Stonegrill Experience, which CBK has built into the menu as the perfect complement to its drinks lineup. Dishes come out on hot stone and keep cooking right at your table, so every bite lands just the way you like it. The beef rump on the stonegrill is the one to know, and on Thursday CBK Club Nights loyalty members can claim it as a special from 4pm while earning double points all night long — simply download the CBK Loyalty App, scan in and enjoy.
Brunch runs daily until 3pm, and the bagels have become something of a house obsession. The BLT stacks a toasted bagel with homemade bacon, fresh lettuce, thick-sliced tomato and onion jam, while the SLC pairs house-smoked salmon with rocket, cream cheese and preserved lemon. Beyond the bagels there's eggs on toast, bacon and eggs, eggs bene, steak and mushroom on toast, mushroom rosti, a quesadilla, fried chicken and bacon waffles, and the Butchers Breakfast for the biggest appetites.
Weekends start from 10am, which makes CBK a handy anchor for a slow Saturday or Sunday — brunch with the family, or drinks as the afternoon rolls on.
The weekly calendar does a lot of heavy lifting here. Blackboard lunch deals keep weekday lunches quick and easy, with plates like butter chicken curry, chicken parma and steak and prawns. Wednesdays belong to the homemade Chicken Parma, loaded up three ways — nacho, Hawaiian or the mac n cheese — every one served with crispy coated fries and posh slaw. Thursdays bring CBK Club Nights, with the members' stonegrill special from 4pm and double loyalty points through the evening. As the team likes to say, there's something new and different every day.
As a craft bar, the beer and cider offering is central to the whole proposition, with a dedicated tap beer and cider menu alongside an extensive beverage range. Cocktails cover the celebratory end of things, and the mocktail list is genuinely considered rather than an afterthought: the Fresh Fruit 0% is a sweet twist on a peachy tea, the Naked Gin 0% is a berry-themed number served with sorbet, and the Espresso 0% adds a vanilla twist to a coffee favourite.
CBK Kaiapoi also positions itself as the town's living room for big occasions. When the All Blacks met South Africa, the match went live on what the team calls the biggest TV in town, doors opened ahead of kickoff, and the full breakfast and brunch menu ran alongside bar service — with the best-view tables booked out early. Community groups can arrange quiz fundraiser nights, where you bring the people, CBK hosts the evening and the club keeps the money raised. Gift vouchers are available in person, by phone or online, and public holidays carry no surcharge even if hours shift.
You'll find CBK Craft Bar & Kitchen at Unit 4, 77 Hilton Street, Kaiapoi. Book a table online or call 03 327 9224 — especially for Parma Wednesdays, Club Nights and match days, when the best seats go first. Whether you're coming for a stonegrill steak, a bagel at brunch or a zero-proof mocktail at the bar, the promise is the same: good times, done properly, in Kaiapoi.