Leinster Rd Bistro

The dinner at Leinster Rd Bistro was a great experience. We had a seafood platter to share and it was divine ! It was filling enough for two and we still had some room for a dessert.
The atmosphere, with the private booths, is very cosy and the service professional and discrete.
I recommend!

We loved our time at Leinster Rd Bistro. We both tried to avoid the cheesy garlic bread from the menu but are so pleased we succumbed to the temptation. It was beyond delicious. Chicken and pork mains were delectable. Perfectly cooked and stunningly presented. Can't tell you about the desserts but certainly hoping that we'll get back to try them one day because I can only imagine they will look exquisite and taste superb.

Excellent food and service

We have dined at this restaurant many times and cannot fault the food or the service.
The restaurant has a lovely atmosphere, pleasant background music, conducive to conversation.

We all enjoyed our meal, rissotto, lambs fry, and beef salad. As always quiet surroundings and a good location for lunch.

everything was wonderful, such a great atmosphere, really enjoy going their, very classy. Jenny & Ian Gibson

The food was excellently cooked and presented, service prompt and obliging and on a quiet evening the noise level for conversation was just how we like it.

Lovely food. Nice and quiet dining experience

Really good food, dishes you don't see on other menus.

We had a really enjoyable evening last night. The atmosphere is just lovely, with the soft music playing and the space between tables meant you didn't feel cramped. The staff were excellent, very attentive and welcoming. We would definitely recommend this restaurant

Scrumptious food. Very peaceful and cosy. Great service.

The menu, food, atmosphere, restrooms, and staff were top rate. But service to the table was slow and as it got busier, worse.

Fabulous dinner out with two birthdays two days in a row being celebrated. The service was very pleasant. Food was really enjoyable - with ages in our group from 9 to 91 there was something for everybody including a kids menu, which was a nice surprise for a place like this. Ambience was great - you could actually hear yourself think and talk! Would definitely go back, and recommend to others.

Great place to dine at. No loud music to stop conversation!
Friendly helpful young lady!
Food was excellent, beautifully presented and we all enjoyed our choices. Great idea this first table, we eat out far more than we could normally afford to, and get to try so many restaurants.

We had a very enjoyable dinner Thursday night.Our waiter was very friendly and the food delicious. We will be back.

Great place wine and dine.
We will go back.

Food was delicious! Service was great also.

Dined here last night

Beautifully presented meals served by lovely friendly waitress

Couldnt fault it and will certainly be dining at Leinster Rd again ;

The atmosphere was great and service was also. My parents had the beef wellington and only got a single portabello mushroom on their plate. The pork was really tasty and very good choice!

Comfortable seating with pleasant “Renoir” decor. Attentive service without intrusion. House shiraz was rich and zesty and a good pour. Food presentation attractive. Unusual flair on a Thai salad but good. The creme brûlée was memorable.

Nice place, good service and food

Lovely food really well presented. Lots of choice and great desserts. Excellent restaurant

Excellent. Pork Belly dish was fantastic a must.

It was a quiet evening when we visited so staff had time to treat us personally. We found the decor pleasing. A big plus was ease of parking. All together a great evening.

We had a lovely meal with some very good wines and helpful service.

We both loved our meals!
Nice relaxed place too, will be back!

Such relaxing atmosphere is rare to find. Leinster Rd Bistro has nice and quiet setting, wonderful music. It is interestingly decorated with giant copies of Henri Rousseau paintings. The place is perfectly clean and tidy. Everything we ordered was of high standard and nicely cooked. The staff was friendly. The only thing we did not like was one of our desserts. Plum tartin was rather simple piece of puff pastry topped with a spoon of mascarpone cheese, below excellence of all other food we had. The other dessert we ordered was creme brulee, and it was perfect.

love the ambience of Leinster Bristro, food is always fresh and plentiful, a nice atmosphere

It was cozy and tender

great service

We enjoyed a superb fish meal, and fabulous desserts in quiet enjoyable surroundings. Service was prompt and friendly making for a very nice evening.

Whilst the food was ok, the service was appalling!we arrived at 5.30 but it took a long time to receive water, drinks and to place our order, even longer to place our dessert order after mains, then we waited 45 minutes to receive our dessert in which time no one replaced our empty water bottle or even asked if we wanted another drink! Wouldn’t go back!

Food was fantastic. Have been coming here for at least 4 years and the quality of food and atmosphere is great.

Really lovely evening. It was a Wednesday evening and restaurant got very busy so the locals must know how good it is. Food was very good, with staff going out of their way to make sure we could have a starter that our Gluten Free member could eat.

Great food, very nice place to be, comfortable seats and no loud banging music! What a unique experience!

Very pleasant all round

Lovely food and great service

Great dining at Leinster Rod Bistro. Fabulous steak I had and my partner had the risotto which she said was fabulous also. I would like to say the waitress we had was super sweet - attentive without being obtrusive and very happy to make recommendations. We were very pleased.

Wow what a little gem in the heart of Merivale, lucky locals.
Beautifully prepared food, there’s a lot of love there and really attentive service.
You were the only waiter on and you couldn’t tell -well done, you have the recipe right! Deserts were delicious.

Leinster Bistro is one of the jewels in the suburban restaurant crown in Christchurch. I can’t recall a bad or even “average” meal here. Can’t reccomend highly enough.

Never been before. Food was amazing!!!! Lovely surroundings and will definitely be returning

Great meal and excellent service.

If you are after a quiet place where you could enjoy a pleasant meal as well as a relaxed conversation, Leinster Rd Bistro definitely is the one you shouldn't miss.

Great food and great service. Definitely go again.

Excellent food, great service on an unusually quiet evening made this a very enjoyable meal.

Excellent food & service!!! Great portion sizes not too big or small!!!!

It was good. Maybe a little could be done to make it brilliant... e.g. a little more lavish in the condiments on the desserts. I think we might return sometime

Always a dining delight - peaceful, delicious, timely and sophisticated. This is one of my favourites for a guaranteed good meal and friendly service.

great service, great food, value for money, I love the ambience