The driveway climbs off Onetangi Road between vines and olive trees, and it finishes on a hillside veranda looking across a valley where horses graze on the far slope. Stonyridge has been making Bordeaux-style reds here for decades, and Larose is the bottle people make the trip for, though the Reserve Chardonnay has its own loyal following. You can taste either on a $35 Signature flight or the $80 Larose vertical, or take a bottle out to the deck and lawns and settle in.
The restaurant and cellar door open every day at 11am, and lunch is a set menu of bread and dips, a fish course, a slow-cooked beef short rib and dessert. You'll want to book for that. Walk-ins are welcome for drinks and nibbles outside, and groups of nine or more sort a private guided tasting through the events team. For weddings and functions, you've got The Lookout, the Veranda Café and the olive grove to choose from, and you can hire the whole venue if you need to. It's a long lunch kind of place, and it rewards giving it the whole afternoon.
Written from 1,629 Google reviews, every one we could get, on 12 November 2026. Rated 4.3 from 1,594 Google reviews.
Stonyridge splits people, and the difference usually comes down to how the day around them went. The hillside setting and the Larose reds win nearly everyone over, though slow service on a busy afternoon can undo the good work.
The beef short rib turns up again and again, cooked until it falls apart and generous enough that people take leftovers home. Order the grilled eggplant with miso, the warm focaccia with dips and the raw tuna in coconut, plus the Te Matuku oysters if they're on. The Reserve Chardonnay is the wine people keep talking about, while Larose is the splurge.
When the floor team are on form they're warm, funny and properly knowledgeable, and regulars come back for the way a host talks them through the wines. On a busy day things turn slow and disjointed, orders arrive late or not at all, and the QR code takes the place of a conversation.
You're sitting among vines and olive groves on a hillside above Onetangi, with horses grazing on the far slope and the veranda looking down the valley. The deck, the lawns and tables under the olive trees each give you somewhere to settle in, and there's a DJ on some weekends.
The set menu is where the value sits, at $79 to $89 a head for bread, a fish course, a meat main and dessert, and people call it generous. The $35 Signature tasting feels steep to plenty of visitors at three small pours, and a glass of Larose pushes the bill up fast.
Book it for a long birthday lunch, a hens' afternoon or a group of eight or more where the set menu takes the ordering out of it. Couples on a Waiheke wine tour slot in well too, and weddings and functions have The Lookout and the olive grove to spread into.
Book ahead if you want the restaurant, because walk-ins are only reliable for drinks and platters on the deck. Service gets stretched when it's busy, helicopters coming in to the pad nearby blow dust over the terrace, and that ten-minute uphill walk from the bus stop is worth knowing about.
Every fact on this page was checked on 8 November 2026 against Google, Stonyridge Vineyard's own website and 1,629 of its Google reviews. The photo is from the eatout library, not taken here, and no venue pays to be listed or ranked. Something out of date? Tell us
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