Twelve Table Bar & Eatery is a cafe and bar on Waitomo Village Road, in the centre of the Waitomo settlement that is home to New Zealand's famous glowworm caves; current details are kept on its Facebook page. A cafe in a village built around one big attraction keeps its own rhythm: the rush lands when tour groups surface hungry, and the gaps between departures are the quiet windows. In villages this small the cafe is rarely just a coffee stop — it often doubles as the bar, the lunch counter and the dinner venue too, so the cooking leans generous and all-day rather than fussy. Regulars time their visits around tour changeovers, and it pays to check hours before turning up late in the day or out of season. For cave visitors, having a proper eatery on the village's main road means a good meal is never far from the underground action.