New Street Steakhouse — Restaurant in Nelson

This really should be 4.5 stars if Google permitted such score to be submitted.

Staff is exceptionally friendly and accommodating. They went out of their way to offer an alternative kids meal when we were planning to order a full sized fish of the day for the little one (didn't want him eating deep fried fish from the kids menu just yet)!! Very generous of them!!

Other than that, the other meal servings were incredibly generous and to our liking. Would definitely visit again if we come back to visit NZ again.

Unfortunately, the only thing keeping me from giving full marks is the way my steak came out. I ordered the flintstone (pretty much a 500g rib-eye with a slightly longer frenched bone but not nearly as long as a tomahawk) cooked medium. It came out medium rare at the edges, rare at the centre, and blue as you got closer towards the bone. I still finished it and it was still a fantastic steak, but this cut is wasted when cooked medium rare and below. Reason being, the connective tissue of the rib steak along with the fat within the meat does not render down until about medium, resulting in some very chewy sinew.

Medium rare or lower, in my honest opinion, should only be recommended for leaner cuts of meat and/or where the fat is along the outside edges, where you can sear it with the pan or go at it with a blowtorch like I do. Examples include fillet steak, rump steak t-bone, and striploin (but NOT the part where the striploin meets the rump, as there is a connective tissue as well).

Keep it up and don't take it too personally, guys! For what it's worth, there is only one place out of many I've been to so far that has EVER cooked my steak perfectly (besides myself), so I know it isn't easy. I'm betting that when everyone literally orders medium rare, it's sometimes a bit hard to deviate...

Unfortunately i left the place hungry 😞 We didn't have a good eating experience here. For those of you who like medium rare or rare steaks you will enjoy it but I don't and specifically asked for medium cooked steak for me and my daughter and my sister wanted medium rare, we all got next to rare steaks. I asked them to take it back and cook it some more and got another rare steak again 😡 he said if I put it in my mouth it will be cooked 🤔 i don't think so mate, if its rare on the plate it is not going to cook in my mouth 😠 the other thing we questioned was the chicken appetizers they looked raw but was told it is cooked its just red bones and brought them back to us...salmonella is real and no one wants to be sick while traveling back to the North Island. I will leave you to judge the chicken but I know my steak and how I like it because that is all I order when I am out. You can keep your live cow on the plate, if its red or bleeding its alive to me and I won't eat it. He came back and said he would not charge us for the steak meals but mate I won't pay for something I didn't order or eat! I will also add the table next to us sent food back as well...bad night for the chef? I don't care don't bring it to the table of...

Lovely wait and bar staff but wouldn't go back for the food. I had a steak sandwich (med rare) and my partner ordered the 250g ribye (blue)

My "sandwich" arrived with only one bit of toasted bread and the onions burnt on one side but raw throughout.

My partner went to eat her steak first to find that it was cooked perfectly but completely cold to the touch to where that fat was solidified. She asked if it could just have a quick seer both sides or something for it to be heated up, even if it goes to rare/med rare to achieve this and the waitress was very accomidating. How ever the chefs may not have realized that we were sitting just within earshot and their response to her feedback was appalling and quite insulting.

They remade the steak completely which was unnecessary but appreciated. It turned up when we had both finished our meals well and trul but cooked to well done.

Left $ tip for the waitress as we felt really bad that she had to be spoken to like that for literally just doing her job and really well at that.

We wouldnt return for the food or the chefs attitude and comentary about customers. But the environment, bar and wait staff...