Semola Restaurant & Bar is a bistro-style restaurant at 1 Moana Avenue in Ōrewa, on the Hibiscus Coast. Its steaks are dry-aged in-house and flame-grilled over an open fire and charcoal, and its pasta is made fresh in the kitchen. The bistro serves lunch and dinner from 5pm, Tuesday to Sunday, with a kids menu. The menu includes a Scotch steak, an Angus beef burger at $29 as at 2026, market fish at $39 as at 2026, prawn cappelletti at $38 as at 2026, baked brie at $29 as at 2026 and an antipasto at $39 as at 2026. Groups of up to 11 can order a family-style feast for the table at $34 per person as at 2026, or a shared roast.
Next door is The Whiskey Bar, with Scottish, Irish, American, Japanese, Taiwanese and New Zealand whiskies, cocktails, wine and snacks. Semola also hosts functions. Open Locally lists six other restaurants within a kilometre. Four are 0.3 km away: CHEEK AND CHONG, Boulevard Bar & Eatery, Tasca Beach and The Fat Oyster Bar & Eatery. None of those four has a rating on Open Locally. Our pick in Ōrewa for a steak cooked over fire and a whiskey after dinner.