The Quarry Restaurant is a restaurant on Palmerston Street in the middle of Westport, Buller, holding a 4.5 rating from 288 Google reviews. On the West Coast, the restaurants worth returning to are the ones that cook what the season and the region give them — whitebait fritters while the spring season runs, fresh fish off local boats, beef and lamb from Buller back country. Asking what came in this week is a better question than scanning the menu for the familiar, and regulars tend to order that way. Small-town dining also runs on its own clock: kitchens often keep shorter hours than their city counterparts, and in summer, when travellers funnel through on State Highway 6, tables go early, so ringing ahead to book is rarely wasted effort. Set on Westport's main street, The Quarry gives locals and passers-through a well-reviewed place to sit down to dinner.