Jellicoe St Bar & Eatery is a restaurant-bar with a function room in the middle of Te Puke, open seven days a week from 11am until late. True to its double-barrelled name, it plays both roles: a gastro menu that runs all day in the kitchen, and a serious drinks operation behind the bar, with 12 beers on tap and a vast variety of cocktails and mocktails.
The venue is built for company. Seating for 230 is spread across three spaces — the main bar, a function room and a beer garden — so it copes as easily with a table for two as with a full-room celebration. The function room gives gatherings a space of their own, while the beer garden covers anyone who wants fresh air with their drink.
You'll find it at 110 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke 3119. Food can also be ordered online for pickup, and the team can be reached on 07-573 4040 or at jellicoestreetbar@gmail.com.
Jellicoe St Bar & Eatery sits on Jellicoe Street, right in the middle of Te Puke — the Bay of Plenty town at the heart of New Zealand's kiwifruit country. The name tells you exactly what it is: a bar and an eatery in one, open every day of the week from 11am until late. It's a restaurant-bar with a function room attached, which means it can shift from a casual lunch stop into a full private event without changing character.
Plenty of pubs divide the day into a lunch service, a dinner service and a quiet gap in between. This one doesn't. The gastro menu runs all day, every day, so the same food is available whether you walk in just after opening or settle in for the evening.
An all-day menu changes the way a venue gets used. There's no wrong time to suggest meeting here, because the food doesn't disappear between services. Early lunch, mid-afternoon bite, proper dinner — the gastro menu covers them all, and nobody in the group has to check their watch first.
For anyone whose day doesn't follow a standard lunch-and-dinner schedule, that flexibility is a quiet kind of convenience. And because the venue is both a bar and an eatery, a meal here doesn't have to end when the plates are cleared.
Drinks are half the name and a good deal of the personality. The bar pours 12 beers on tap, giving beer drinkers genuine range rather than a token tap or two.
Beyond the taps, the list opens out into what the venue itself calls a vast variety of cocktails and mocktails. The mocktails matter: it means the non-drinker at the table gets a proper drink in hand, not a soft-drink consolation prize. Between the taps, the mixed drinks and the mocktails, a mixed group can order round after round without anyone being left out.
Capacity here is measured in the hundreds. There's seating for 230, spread across three spaces: the main bar, a function room and a beer garden.
The main bar is the everyday heart of the place — a drink after work, a table for dinner, a catch-up that turns into several. The beer garden adds open air to the mix for anyone who wants it. And the function room gives celebrations, work dos and gatherings a room of their own, with the kitchen and bar right there to keep everyone fed and watered.
If you're planning something with numbers attached, the short version is that this venue is built to absorb a crowd. Get in touch directly to talk through your function — the contact details are below.
You'll find Jellicoe St Bar & Eatery at 110 Jellicoe Street, Te Puke 3119, New Zealand. Doors open at 11am, Monday to Sunday, and things run until late. Phone 07-573 4040 or 027 385 3626, email jellicoestreetbar@gmail.com, or follow along on Facebook and Instagram to see what's on.
If you'd rather eat at home, food can be ordered online through the venue's ordering page on ordermeal.co.nz.
Whether it's a long lunch, after-work drinks or a function room full of people who know each other far too well, Jellicoe St Bar & Eatery keeps the formula simple: gastro food whenever you're hungry, 12 taps when you're thirsty, and room for 230 when you bring everyone you know.