Hahei Eatery & Ice Cream is a restaurant at 3 Grange Rd in South Otago, rated 4.6 on Google, and the name gives away its two acts: proper meals, then ice cream to follow. In small South Island towns, an eatery running both a kitchen and an ice-cream cabinet has two jobs to do well. The hot food should be cooked to order and generous, and the cabinet should tempt you even when you only stopped in for a meal. The best of these places keep menus short, lean on local produce and let a specials board do the talking. Regulars know the rhythm — arriving outside the lunch rush, ringing ahead on busy nights — and that a dessert counter busy even in winter is usually a good sign. For anyone passing through or living nearby, Hahei Eatery & Ice Cream's 4.6 rating marks it out as a dependable local stop worth pulling over for.