An award winning signature restaurant located inside the Ascot Park Hotel, Emberz at Ascot features a fine dining a la carte menu; including several Southland delicacies, seasonal vegetables, lamb, seafood and world famous Bluff oysters (in season).
Dinners at Grand Park are also a very special experience with tanks of live seafood containing Blue Cod, Flounder, Moki, Hapuka, Lobster, Paua, Clams and many other varieties when available.
Hammerheads won its first Metro Best Seafood Restaurant Award in 2005. Since then (apart from 2006 when there was no specialist seafood award, but Hammerheads was first runner up in the Smart Casual category), Hammerheads Restaurant has clearly dominated the genre.
On the banks of the beautiful Waikato River, just 10 minutes north of Taupo, you’ll find New Zealand’s only Prawn Park. It’s the home of ‘Shawn the Prawn’.