Whakatane Sportfishing Club — Restaurant in North Island

We were made very welcome by the manager of the club. Because we had a couple of drinks and the atmosphere was brilliant, we thought we would have a light meal. My husband ordered oysters Kilpatrick, I ordered scallops in a creamy champagne sauce. We ended up leaving 90% of our meal. The oysters were the worst oysters Kilpatrick he has ever had (and he is generally kind about his food opinions). I couldn't eat mine, as it was a full bowl of yellow cream soup with the rubbery scallops floating in it. I can't even say it remotely resembled the cream reduction champagne sauce I expected. The rest of the meals we saw going out looked fantastic, like the burgers, fish and chips etc and everyone looked happy eating them. I would just advise being very careful what you order from the menu. We are not fussy, special people, we were just thrown by the meal. We are happy with average. We are out of towners and not members so thank you very much for your...

Love coming to this place for a good seafood chowder! Yummy! There was quite a bit of a wait but it was Mother's Day and there were a lot of people. I Didn't mind though as we had a great view of the wharf, sipping on my drink. Been here several times. Beautiful views from the top floor. My partner enjoyed a good chicken burger with tasty satay sauce which I tried, very delicious. The staff are really friendly and accomadating. We are lucky to come here thanks to the Mother in law as she is a member but you can join. So great place to chill and watch the...

They have not read or learnt from the previous feedback as they still serve starter with the main and they still pour over a horrible packet gravy all over the steak totally spolit a great cut of steak and at $35 for the steak meal surely they could make a lovely homemade sauce..Pork snitzel was a soggy crumbed deep fried mess ..the Island Chicken was lovely but we were surprised that their meals for "little fishers" didn't...