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L'Arte

255 Marapa Road | Acacia Bay, Taupo, New Zealand
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Ranked #7 of 94 restaurants in Taupo
Cuisines: Café
Dining options: Breakfast/Brunch
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Dining options: Breakfast/Brunch
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Adelaide, Australia
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 May 2013 via mobile

Stopped off at the recommendation of the staff at the Taupo i-site. Really enjoyed looking around at the sculptures. Good hot coffee. Food looked good even though we didn't have it. Would recommend a visit.

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Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 8 May 2013

Order your food and amble around the artwork in the café and garden while you are waiting for it to arrive. Good food (consistently). You can visit the shop and most artworks are for sale.

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Havelock North, New Zealand
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6 reviews 6 reviews
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 26 April 2013

Worth the drive out to this amazing cafe and gallery- great food and fun ceramics. A place to take the kids as well as granny

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See 4 more reviews by Helen B for Taupo
Napier, New Zealand
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 April 2013

Ticks every cafe box, great coffee, food, they really really know how to run a cafe. Freindy, quick , handled large group amazingly, great menu, even sells kiddy packs . . .

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Auckland Region, New Zealand
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 January 2013

We went to this lovely cafe for my mum's surprise 80th birthday. Although they do not take bookings all of the staff catered for our large group of 23 adults and 6 kiddies no problem.I did email them prior to the day so they where well organised. Thank you Jo,Andrew and all of your wonderful staff for making the surprise... More

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See 4 more reviews by Lee W for Taupo
Wellington, New Zealand
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 22 January 2013

A great wee destination for morning tea and a drive around the bay. Lots of amazing mosaic art works.

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UK
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 January 2013

We drove up from our motel in Taupo and decided to go here for a lovely sunny Sunday brunch at this place. The surroundings are beautiful. We went in and chose what we wanted and waited outside on the terrace. Cappuccinos were delightful and we both had the salmon eggs benedict. It was gorgeous and it was full of Kiwi... More

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See 6 more reviews by Itchy_feet_2007 for Taupo
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 8 January 2013 via mobile

Fabulous cafe with the added bonus of a mosaic garden to wander around. We had corn fritters which came with a very nice mango salsa. we also had the steak Sammy which was incredibly tasty served with an awesome onion jam

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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 8 January 2013 via mobile

As always living up to my expectations! Jo and Andrew really know the meaning of hospitality! Yummy coffees, great and quick service, always with a smile. Toys for the little one and that bacon baguette is to die for!

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See 3 more reviews by Allpresslover for Taupo
Wellington
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2 of 5 stars Reviewed 30 November 2012

We read that this cafe was rated by Lonely planet as a top ten in New Zealand Cafe to go to.Coming from Wellington , where we have THE MOST AMAZING cafes and restaurants, we had high expectations on reading this. Sadly we were very disappointed and wonder when lonely planets  reviewers visited this cafe last. The corn fritters were more... More

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