The Drawing Room is a super cute and relatively unassuming find in the Mount, but word is spreading and it’s becoming pretty popular. The decor is great, with a selection of local art gracing its walls (hence the name). They have a small but varied menu of extremely well executed staple dishes with a small dessert menu that is kickass too!
This Mount Maunganui restaurant was formerly named Two Small Fish but a few years ago the owners gave it a spruce up and renamed it The Drawing Room. Most of their seafood dishes are on the starters menu and include raw kingfish, fried squid, chilli prawns and pan-fried scallops. Flick through your retro cookbook-style menu and you’ll find Hazelnut and Panko crumbed snapper and pan-fried hapuka, snapper or john dory offered as ‘mouth-water mains’.