A Whangarei restaurant with English roots, on Cameron Street in Vinetown, where the walls are hung with reproductions of Dickens illustrations. Owners Graeme and Vicki Cundy opened it in 1995 and named it after their family tree, which the website says reaches back to Charles Dickens. A hotel has stood on this spot since 1891, in one form or another. The restaurant serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, dine-in or takeaway, and the website says the food is local, nutritious and delicious. The bar has craft beers, Heineken on tap, Monteiths, and more than 20 gins and mixers for gin cocktails. It hosts pub quizzes, live bands, and functions such as weddings and corporate parties, and it is family friendly, with a roaring fire in winter. We hear the menu is changing, so check before you go. Open Locally lists 12 other restaurants within a kilometre, including Grillah Manila and Split Bar & Restaurant.