The Chopstick Table is a restaurant at 182 Jackson Street in Petone, Lower Hutt, and the name tells you most of the story: dishes meant to be eaten with chopsticks. Its 4.8 Google rating makes it one of the more quietly assured places to eat in the area.
Jackson Street is one of the Wellington region's best-known eating strips, so Petone diners are spoilt for choice. A short, confident menu usually beats a long one, and kitchens that cook a few dishes properly are the ones that build a following. Menus built for sharing reward a table willing to order broadly rather than one plate each. Regulars tend to book ahead for Friday and Saturday nights, and asking the staff what they would order themselves rarely steers you wrong.
On a street this crowded with good eating, that 4.8 is reason enough to pull up a chair at The Chopstick Table.