The Moose Bar and Armadillos Restaurant is a bar and restaurant on Lakefront Drive in Te Anau, Southland, with a 3.9 rating from 952 Google reviews; its online home is its Facebook page. A good bar in a gateway town like Te Anau does two jobs at once: it feeds travellers back off the Milford Road, and it stays warm and local enough to matter through the quiet winter months. The best ones pour decent beer, keep the kitchen going for a proper pub meal, and don't mind a wet jacket drying over a chair. Timing is the regular's secret — in summer, the tables with a lake view go fast once the day tours return, so locals eat early or settle in at the bar. Sitting right on the lakefront strip where Fiordland day-trippers wash up of an evening, The Moose is well placed to do both.