The Wooden Farmer is a restaurant at 99 Tirau Street in Putāruru, South Waikato, with a 4.4 rating on Google. It has no standalone website — its Facebook page does that job — so it is worth checking there before a visit.
In a small rural town, a good restaurant tends to be many things at once — a spot for family dinners, a meeting place for locals, a comfortable stop for travellers — and the ones that last are the ones the community adopts as its own. Country-town menus usually favour hearty, familiar cooking, and it pays to ask what is good that day, because a confident kitchen will tell you straight. With fewer options nearby, weekend evenings can fill quickly, so ringing ahead is rarely wasted.
For Putāruru locals and anyone passing through the South Waikato, The Wooden Farmer puts a well-rated place to eat right on Tirau Street.