The Long Acre Grill / Peach & Porker Bar sits on Alexandra Street in the heart of Te Awamutu, working as both a relaxed restaurant and a neighbourhood bar. The cooking leans hearty and generous: beef brisket smoked in-house, pork ribs slow-cooked in a signature cola glaze, and a smokey sharing platter loaded with brisket, wings, ribs, sausages and curly fries.
The menus cover a lot of ground across lunch, dinner, dessert and a kids' menu. Days can start with eggs benedict or a big breakfast; lunches bring burgers, pizzas, sandwiches, pastas and salads; and the dinner menu adds a dedicated grill section with scotch fillet, sirloin, lamb shank, bacon-wrapped chicken breast and pork belly, served with a choice of sauces.
As the Peach & Porker Bar side of the name suggests, evenings have a social rhythm of their own — quiz night on Wednesdays, free pool on Thursdays, DJ nights on Fridays and live bands announced through the bar's Facebook page. Bookings and enquiries can be made online, by phone or by email, and all the menus are downloadable as PDFs from the website.
On Alexandra Street in the middle of Te Awamutu, The Long Acre Grill / Peach & Porker Bar lives a double life. By day it's a relaxed grill and restaurant turning out big breakfasts, burgers, pizzas and hearty mains; come evening it leans into the Peach & Porker side of its name, when the bar warms up for quiz nights, free pool, DJs and live bands. Two names, one room, and a menu built around smoke, grill and generous plates.
If one plate sums the place up, it's the Long Acre Smokey Platter: beef brisket, chicken wings, pork ribs, pork sausages and curly fries, served with aioli, tomato and BBQ sauce. Brisket is smoked in-house and headlines the Beef Brisket Burger, while the Sticky Pork Ribs are slow-cooked in the kitchen's signature cola glaze and arrive with curly fries and seasonal salad.
Pizza plays its part too — the Meat-a-dor stacks pork, fennel and jalapeño sausages, chorizo and pulled pork over caramelised onion, mozzarella and BBQ sauce, and there's a butter chicken pizza, a shrimp pizza and a fresh buffalo mozzarella option with a gluten-free base available. Around all that sit burgers, pastas like chicken & bacon fettuccine and vegetarian pesto pasta, and salads including the namesake Peach & Porker Salad, topped with your choice of meat, curry mayo and crispy noodles. Lunch rounds things out with eggs benedict, a big breakfast, steak, egg & chips and filled sandwiches.
It's an easy fit for groups and families. The smokey platter is built for the middle of the table, the kids have their own PNP menu, and the mix of pizzas, burgers, pastas and salads means a mixed crowd can each order something different. Vegetarians are covered too, with the Veggie Delight Burger, falafel salad, pan-fried halloumi and pesto pasta.
The dinner menu adds a proper grill section. Scotch fillet and sirloin, both 250 grams, come with roasted garlic buttered potato or creamy mash plus seasonal greens or salad, and a pick of sauces — red wine jus, garlic butter, blue cheese or creamy mushroom. There's bacon-wrapped chicken breast stuffed with cranberries and halloumi, PnP pork belly with mash and jus, lamb shank over vegetable ragout, and beer-battered fish & chips.
Starters run from crispy cauli bites and tempura prawn to buffalo-and-sweet-chilli chicken wings, bao buns and pork belly bites. Save room for the dessert list, which includes a chocolate namelaka profiterole, Miss Pistachio, a homemade chocolate fondant and the cheesecake of the day.
The Peach & Porker side shows up in the weekly rhythm: quiz night on Wednesdays, free pool on Thursdays and DJ night on Fridays, with live band dates announced on the bar's Facebook page. The team posts updates across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok under the peachandporker handle, so it's easy to see what's on before you head in. Between the pool table and the playlists, it works just as well as a casual night out as a dinner destination.
You'll find the restaurant at 97 Alexandra Street, Te Awamutu. Bookings and enquiries can be made through the form on the website, or by phone on 07 871 6100 or via email. Lunch, dinner, dessert and the PNP kids' menu can all be downloaded as PDFs if you'd like to browse before you arrive.
A few dishes are marked as gluten-friendly (GFO), and a gluten-free pizza base is offered — but the kitchen asks anyone with allergies to let staff know before ordering, since cross-contamination can occur. The site lists opening hours of 10:00 am to 10:00 pm; a quick call will confirm times for the specific day you plan to visit.