Memorys Cafe and Restaurant sits on Leeston Road in Springston, a small township in the Selwyn district on the Canterbury Plains. Its website invites visitors to make it a destination for shared meals and peaceful surroundings, and describes it as a setting for private, intimate functions.
A country cafe-restaurant tends to serve two crowds at once — locals using it as their regular meeting place, and day-trippers for whom the drive out is part of the occasion. The best of them keep the welcome unhurried and the cooking honest, and weekends can fill up quickly, so a phone call ahead on a Saturday is never wasted. Anyone planning a function should enquire early: small rural venues usually need to confirm numbers and menu in advance, and their function dates tend to fill well before their everyday tables do.
For a quiet lunch or a small celebration, Memorys makes an easy destination on Leeston Road at Springston.