WellingtonNZ.com,
New Zealand 

Dion N.
23rd January 2011 5 star 

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Excellent food, service, menu and wine selection, highly recommended! As a self appointed food critic with International hospo experience, I would rate this a 10/10.

Fantastic and I should also say beats Logan Brown in a heart beat!

Briony D.
3rd February 2012 5 star 

My girlfriend and I just had the new set menu lunch on the balcony in the sun watching the Seven’s fans go by.
The location is great, close to the CBD, but right next to the golden sand beach on Oriental Bay, with plenty of parking. The food was fantastic – 3 choices per course, a choice of 2 courses for $35 or 3 courses for $50 (bargain). 5 star quality meals, exquisitely presented. I had the pork belly, followed by the snapper, then the amazing panacotta. My friend had the fish cakes, then the chicken breast, followed by french cheese. Great cocktails and coffee too. Lovely, attentive and knowledgeable staff. We highly recommend it!

Sarah
30th January 2012 2 star 

My partner and I took my little sister and her new husband who were in NZ on their honeymoon for dinner here the night before they left the country as I’d heard great things about The White House and wanted to give them a fine dining experience on their last night here…..

The food was nice but the portion sizes were too small… I don’t have a huge appetite and get embarrassed when I have left overs on my plate so I didn’t order an entree but I was still hungry after the amuse-bouche(very tasty though!), bread, main , cheese course ,dessert and coffee even at a fine dining restaurant I still expect to go away full, especially given the price of their mains and although the food was very nice it wasn’t amazing…. The service was ok, the staff were more attentive at the start of the evening making sure our glasses were filled etc but once the restaurant started to fill up the service went downhill.

I’ve been to a number of fine dining restaurant and unfortunately I’d rate the service at the White House at the bottom of these, the service was ok but around the level I’d expect at Lone Star or Speights Ale House. (We possibly also lucked out with the waiter we had because he seemed a bit grumpy some of the others in the dining room seemed quite good).

We ordered a bottle of wine around the time our mains came out but even though I attempted to eat slowly the bottle didn’t come out until we’d almost finished the mains.

Views for the two people facing the window were great but not for the two of us facing with our backs to the window, it’s a shame the orientation of the tables are that way. The set up of the table we were at was booth style so the waiters couldn’t properly serve one half of the table.

The coffee was possibly the worst I’ve ever had.

At the end of the evening we waited for quite a while assuming they’d bring us our bill, we then went up to the counter to pay and waited quite a while for someone to serve us.

Overall it was quite disappointing. The motto on their menu is “Unashamedly first class” I think they need a refresher course on what a first class experience is meant to be like, the bill at the end of the evening was first class but the experience was not.

Caroline
31st December 2011 3 star 

Great attentive service. View magnificent (although requested a window seat that only 1 of us could see out of!?!). Food was good. Flavour of Ravioli starter great, although pasta was hard as nails! Duck confit was melt in your mouth delicious, although duck breast a bit overdone. Venison sauce a bit too overpowering. Pumpkin side nice but too garlicky but salad good. Snow egg dessert a great novelty. Wine matches superb. Overall, a good night out but not as first class as they promote. Would go again though.

Sean
16th August 2011 4 star 

Superb food, great wine list and very attentive staff. What more could you ask for?

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