La Capilla Restaurant

Delicious as always !

An excellent dining experience at La Capilla. We opted for the degustation menu. We were not disappointed! The smoked pumpkin soup and home baked rolls were delicious. The second course was outstanding with a surprising tamarillo/chilli sorbet. The Ox cheek, pan fried fish, and lamb rump were tasty and beautifully presented, all with creative sauces and fresh, local ingredients. The green tea cream cheesecake was a sensational final. Thanks to Rie and her colleagues for top class service. La Capilla is definitely the best local restaurant in this price range. Highly recommended.

Wonderful food, maybe the best in the Nelson area. You could taste how fresh and well prepared everything was. Well trained and highly experienced chef, and it shows. Full prices rival the more expensive places in town, but at first table prices, this is hard to beat! Plus, the old chapel atmosphere felt special (and quiet, unlike some other noisy bistros). We'll be back for sure!

We had the five course Degustation menu for $59 each. Interesting flavours and tried things that I wouldn’t usually order.

This is a delightful local restaurant with delicious meals & fabulous service. The Spanish guitarist was also excellent & added to the ambiance. All in all a very positive dining experience.

Service was great, food tasted amazing and so nicely presented

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Food was beautifully presented as usual. Service was ok - obviously one waitress was learning and was being incredibly particular to get our order right which is both good and a tad annoying. I always enjoy the peaceful atmosphere at La Capilla, but it was Friday night and there was guitarist playing. He was good but at times was too loud for us to enjoy our conversation.

Beautiful meal and superb, friendly and welcoming service. Cannot recommend this restaurant highly enough.
Home made bread, perfectly cooked and beautifully presented food, the best ever creme brûlée. Thank you for a memorable evening.

Quiet and cosy, great atmosphere. We loved the food and the guitar was amazing!

Fabulous dinner. The food is incredible, the staff is lovely, and we were cosy sitting by the fire. Highly recommend ... you won’t be disappointed.

Great food. Good atmosphere .Great staff.

Dining at La Capilla 2nights ago, proved to be most enjoyable as always. We have been to this beautiful restaurant several times before, when we’re travelling through Nelson and it’s always a highlight of our trip. The ambience, the service and the beautifully presented,delicious food all make for a very special dining experience.

Great service and excellent food.

Lovely setting, nice and warm on a cold winter's night and delightful degustation menu. My only suggested inprovement is to add a little more vegetable with the degustation menu as it is quite meaty.

Just amazing food next to a warm open fire. Highly recommend this secret restaurant.

Beautiful restaurant, amazing food and excellent service. We had the degustation menu and we enjoyed every course. Would highly recommend. One of the best restaurants in Nelson!

The food was outstanding and the service was great thanks. We’ll be back.

Just wonderful creative food exciting wine list and flawless service. My favourite restaurant in the region by far

Favourite Nelson restaurant by far. Always leave content and happy. Food is delicious!

This is our second visit and we were just as thrilled with our dining experience as the first time. The waitress was attentive without being intrusive. The duck and steak both cooked to perfection. I even got to try a brand new dessert, coffee and whiskey mouse, can't remember the name but it was devine and served so beautifully. The atmosphere is cosy and feels intimate. Absolutely love La Capilla

Beautifully presented, delicious food. The Degustation menu was a birthday present and definitely met our expectations. Thank you Chef.

The atmosphere in this historical building is charming! Cosy and romantic. The service was old school (just how I like it) and the food was very thoughtfully plated and delicious. The menu has something for everyone and we will be back again. Thank you for your hospitality.

Great value fine dining quality. Varied choice of food freshly cooked and well presented. The Chef is right on top of his game and you would go a long way to dine with such variety and quality in Nelson. Venue is an historic converted Chapel with rimu floors and a depth of wood finishing.

Interesting menu followed by exquisite dishes served by attentive and knowledgeable staff. Cozy venue allowed us to hear flamenco guitar maestro Miles Jackson matching his music to the Spanish style cuisine. A memorable dinner occasion thanks Take and your team.

Four of us totally enjoyed our meals at LA Capilla last week. The combination of food was beautiful and we will go back for sure . Will have to, as want to try other dishes that looked so good too. The Duck was beautifully tender and beetroot with it was perfect. Great chef there.

This experience far exceeded my expectations! I have a gluten allergy and was over the moon to discover that EVERY desert on the menu was gluten free.
My main was the duck; just amazing. My partner chose the steak and was equally pleased. Thank you to the lovely young French woman who served us, she was just lovely and took care of our every need. Thank you La capilla, we will be back:)

The food was amazing the service was great will definetly go again.

This was our first time at La Capilla and we will certainly be back again. The food was just delicious. We had the duck breast which was so tender and tasty. Our friend had a steak and she said it was the best she's ever had.

La Capilla is a stunning fine dining experience which is incredibly good value on First Table. Chef is innovative and subtle - for example, one of our starters was swordfish ceviche with a chili sorbet! The contrast of chili with the cold sorbet was exciting and an excellent pairing with the fish.

The food was of a very high standard as usual. The chef produces wonderful delicate great quality food. Can't stop keep going back for more.

Loved the experience. Food was amazing . We definitely will be back

This was our second visit. La Capella is quickly becoming our favourite. My husband had the gazpacho with is served with two large Argentinian prawns which was fresh and delicious and I try to choose something I am unlikely to have at home so I chose the tuna tartare which I loved. Beautifully seasoned with onion, capers, avocado, sun dried tomatoes, delicious, a great start. My husband just can’t go past duck when it is on the menu and last night was no different and he was not disappointed. Truly delicious. I chose the lamb rump served with roasted eggplant and five grain salad. Wow, it was superb. We had the ratatouille and salad as a side.
We will certainly be back again.

delicious meal, wonderful service, would go again.

A fantastic evening. An incredible menu, the staff were wonderful and the ambiance was gorgeous...... 11/10. We recommend to all if you want a special evening out... Simply perfect...

The food at La Capilla is superb: top-quality ingredients combined imaginatively and creatively to produce wonderful dishes. Our Entrées included: Gazpacho with Argentinian Prawns, Smoked Salmon with green beans and potato salad, Vivavio Cheese and Heck Angus Beef Carpaccio, Spanish Omelette. The Giant Prawns delighted the two fish eaters and the rib-eye steak mains with Daupinoise potatoes and green peppercorn sauce the two meat eaters. Complimentary home-baked Buckwheat rolls, sides of Garden salad, ratatouille and potato wedges were generously sized and all delicious.

Quite why more discerning diners do not venture away from Trafalgar Street, the city centre and the waterfront to taste this wonderful food is a mystery to us!

One of our favorite restaurants in the nelson/Tasman area. A true hidden gem of a great unique venue and exceptional food. Every dish is executed beautifully with superb flavor and texture combinations. Loved the gazpacho with seared prawns and never disappointed in the duck breast main course.

Second time dining at chef Takeshi's La Capilla. While the first experience would be difficult to match, this was another exceptional gastronomic experience. The standout dishes were the duck main course and the cervice entree. The Spanish omelette was tasty and the Serrano ham added further flavour espanola to the meal. Excellent service from Haruka, and it was good of Takeshi to come out from his kitchen and have a chat. Highly recommended.

Me and my hubby had a beautiful date night at La Capilla last night! The food was just sensational! Fresh and bursting with well thought-out flavour combinations!! Chef Takeshi served up 'perfection on a plate' once again and we are not shy in telling everyone La Capilla is a must to try and our favorite casual fine-dining venue in Nelson/Richmond
Thank you so much team and we look forward to dining here again in the near future! ✔✔✔
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I've really enjoyed all of my First Table experiences so far but this one was definitely the best one to date. We ordered the sampling menu which, although not half price, is priced at $51 not $71. We enjoyed 5 courses plus dessert. Every dish was memorable and included a chilled soup, salmon, pork belly, snapper, and lamb. Subtle flavours and beautifully presented. The chef knows the taste he is aiming for (no condiments on the tables). Original and equally delicious desserts included in the price. Live, quality Spanish guitar music and outstanding service added to a most enjoyable evening.

Delicious food in a lovely venue. We were very happy to see this restaurant on First Table, as it made a very special dinner very affordable, too.

Warm welcome, delicious bruschetta starter, especially the ham one! Duck was delicious according to my husband, but I won with an incredibly tasty steak. Excellent wine list, we chose Himmesfield 2008 Cab sav. Perfect. Miles Jackson playing Spanish guitar bought tears to my eyes. Thank you La Capilla.

A warm welcome as we arrived at the restaurant followed by excellent service and meals brought out promptly. With cricket and the 7s rugby on there wasn't a lot of people.
My only concern was I felt the music was a bit too loud and had differculty hearing our friends at times. I didn't like to ask to have music turned down as maybe other patrons like it at that level. The meal was very good and we will definately go there again.

Best meal out in a long time, in all aspects. Duck was delicious, all meals beautifully presented, and live music topped off the evening. We WILL be back!

This was the first time we had visited La Capilla ourselves although I had heard good reports from others. We weren’t disappointed ! From the moment we arrived the staff were welcoming & friendly & immediately made us feel special. Unfortunately there weren’t many diners last night- even when we left - having enjoyed a leisurely evening with the special degustation dinner which we thought was very good value at the special First Table price. The food was excellent- every course had been thought about & matched to work in with the other courses (5 in all plus a choice of dessert). There was a good wine list & plenty of choice with many local wines featured. We will be back!

Everything was perfect! Gorgeous restaurant, fantastic food with immaculate presentation, nothing to complain about. Definitely recommend!!

We really enjoyed our dinner at La Capilla. The food was delicious and the staff very friendly.

La Capilla is Always Great. Food is spectacularly amazing in taste and presentation.
Wait staff were very pleasant, just need to be a bit more attentive to the needs of the customers during service - we had to ask for more water several times.

Superb! This was a real treat and the food was outstanding.. especially the duck! Excellent service and lovely atmosphere. You should definitely go here. You won't regret it!

We had a fantastic experience here! The food was exceptional and service was great. Thank you.