The Te Puke Hotel is a bar on Jellicoe Street in Te Puke, Western Bay of Plenty, carrying a 3.9 rating from 57 Google reviews. A good country pub is a town's shared living room, and in a kiwifruit town like this one the crowd can run from orchard crews and packhouse hands to passing travellers. Regulars judge a pub on the basics: beer poured properly and kept cold, honest counter meals, and bar staff who remember an order without asking twice. The good tables go early on Friday evenings and whenever the rugby is on, so arriving ahead of the rush is worth remembering. For a quiet drink in the heart of kiwifruit country, look for the Te Puke Hotel on Jellicoe Street, in the middle of town.