Otematata's Best Dam Pub

Otematata's Best Dam Pub The best dam place in Otematata for food, drink and entertainment.

Otematata Eatery, Bar & Lodging prides itself on delicious meals, a fun and friendly atmosphere and excellent customer service. One of New Zealand's true country style kiwi pubs that you don't want to miss out on visiting.

🚨 RIGHT LADIES — THIS IS YOUR TOMORROW NIGHT REMINDER. 🚨Girls Night Out is TOMORROW, Friday 21 August from 6pm — and fra...
19/08/2026

🚨 RIGHT LADIES — THIS IS YOUR TOMORROW NIGHT REMINDER. 🚨

Girls Night Out is TOMORROW, Friday 21 August from 6pm — and frankly, if you’re still pretending you don’t need a night out, you’re fooling nobody. 🍷😏

💅 Up Country Nails will be back doing their thing.

💎 Nicole from Boneshaker Workshop in Kurow is joining us with her beautiful handcrafted jewellery.

🍷 And because one talent clearly wasn’t enough, Nicole is also one of the owners of Valli Wines.

So tomorrow night we’ve got:

Jewellery.
Wine.
Nails.
Nibbles.
Good company.
And a very strong chance that “just one” turns into a complete work of fiction. 😂

📅 TOMORROW — Friday 21 August
⏰ From 6pm
📍 Otematata’s Best Dam Pub

Grab the girls. Send the group chat. Sort your excuse.

Tomorrow night is looking dangerously good. 😈🍷💅

DAD DOESN’T WANT ANOTHER PAIR OF BLOODY SOCKS. 🥩🍺He wants a 400g porterhouse, a pint, a raffle ticket and absolutely no ...
19/08/2026

DAD DOESN’T WANT ANOTHER PAIR OF BLOODY SOCKS. 🥩🍺

He wants a 400g porterhouse, a pint, a raffle ticket and absolutely no responsibility for cooking.

So this Father’s Day, Sunday 6 September, we’re feeding the old boys properly.

ENTRÉE
Creamy garlic prawns with green-lipped mussels, served with saffron & lemongrass-infused jasmine rice.

THE MAIN EVENT
A whopping 400g porterhouse steak with crispy potato croquettes, pan-fried broccolini, roasted cherry tomatoes, red wine jus and a glorious lump of garlic butter.

And because a dry Father’s Day sounds suspiciously like punishment…

🍺 A pint of Speight’s or Summit is included.

$65 per person | Two courses + a pint

But wait. Dad’s landed on SUPER SUNDAY.

Which means all the usual Sunday action is happening too, including the raffles. And we all know dads bloody love a raffle. Give a man a meat tray to stare at, and suddenly he’s more emotionally invested than he’s been in anything since the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

⚠️ BOOK EARLY. SERIOUSLY.

Super Sundays are already busy without half of Otematata deciding Dad deserves feeding at the same time.

Bring Dad. Bring Grandad. Bring the bloke who taught you to hold the torch in exactly the wrong bloody spot.

Sunday 6 September | Otematata’s Best Dam Pub

Steak. Seafood. Beer. Raffles.

Basically Father’s Day without having to pretend he likes the card.

YOUR SUNDAY HAS BEEN PROMOTED FROM “LYING AROUND” TO “POTENTIALLY OWNING A SMALL BUTCHERY.”SUPER SUNDAY | 4–7PM🥪 $5 roas...
16/08/2026

YOUR SUNDAY HAS BEEN PROMOTED FROM “LYING AROUND” TO “POTENTIALLY OWNING A SMALL BUTCHERY.”

SUPER SUNDAY | 4–7PM

🥪 $5 roast meat sammies
Big. Hot. Gravy-soaked. About as structurally sound as your weekend plans.

🥩 Chopped Butchery mega meat raffles
Quality meat packs, getting fatter as the month rolls on. Your freezer could be about to receive a fairly aggressive upgrade.

🍺 Great bloody drink deals
Big bottles. House wines. No need for a spreadsheet, just trust us on this one.

💰 SPIN & WIN JACKPOT: $200 CASH

Open the Best Dam Pub app and check in while you’re here. We’ll draw one spinner between 6pm and 7pm, and you must be in the pub to win.

Best-case scenario: dinner sorted, freezer loaded and $200 in your pocket.

Worst-case scenario: gravy on your shirt and a better Sunday than the people who stayed home pretending to be productive.

Otematata’s Best Dam Pub. Where Sundays come to misbehave.

Round up the girls. Dust off the lip gloss. Cancel whatever boring thing you were pretending you had planned.💋 GIRLS NIG...
12/08/2026

Round up the girls. Dust off the lip gloss. Cancel whatever boring thing you were pretending you had planned.

💋 GIRLS NIGHT OUT IS BACK — FRIDAY 21 AUGUST FROM 6PM! 🍷

And this month, we’ve snagged a bloody good one.

We’re welcoming Nicole from Boneshaker Workshop in Kurow — a seriously talented jeweller bringing along her handcrafted pieces for you to have a nosey at, fall in love with, and potentially explain to your partner later. 💎😏

But Nicole’s got another trick up her sleeve…

She’s also a winemaker for Valli Wines. 🍷

Yep. Jewellery AND wine.

Frankly, if she also knows how to fix a leaking tap, we may never let her leave Otematata.

Come along, meet Nicole, check out Boneshaker Workshop, hear about Valli, have a drink, grab some dinner and enjoy a proper catch-up with the girls.

🍷 Good drinks
💎 Gorgeous local jewellery
🍽️ Good food
😂 Questionable stories
❤️ Bloody good company

Friday 21 August | From 6pm
📍 Otematata’s Best Dam Pub

Grab the girls and get yourselves here.

Partners are perfectly capable of surviving one evening on the other side of the bar... We checked. 😈

12/08/2026

🍗 WINGS WEDNESDAY IS HERE! 🍗

Midweek motivation has arrived… and it’s covered in sauce.

🔥 $1 WINGS FROM 5PM 🔥

Yep. One lonely little dollar per wing.
So round up the crew, loosen the belt a notch and come get stuck into a pile of the good stuff.

Perfect with a cold beer.
Dangerous when you tell yourself, “I’ll just have six.” 😏

📍 Otematata’s Best Dam Pub
🍗 Wings Wednesday
💰 $1 wings

Get in before someone else eats your share.

THAT’S NOT SHY. THAT’S $200-SMUG. 💸Mess has only gone and spun the winning wedge tonight, sending the $200 Spin & Win Ja...
10/08/2026

THAT’S NOT SHY. THAT’S $200-SMUG. 💸

Mess has only gone and spun the winning wedge tonight, sending the $200 Spin & Win Jackpot straight out the door and into that suspiciously large fan of cash.

One minute she was enjoying a Monday at the pub.
Next minute she was hiding behind enough folding stuff to make the rest of the bar deeply jealous.

Congratulations, Mess! Bloody brilliant.

The jackpot gets hauled back to $100 tomorrow, and we begin the whole financially irresponsible circus again. 🍻

MONDAY’S HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS. 🌮💰It’s meant to be the miserable start of the working week.Instead, we’ve given it t...
10/08/2026

MONDAY’S HAVING AN IDENTITY CRISIS. 🌮💰

It’s meant to be the miserable start of the working week.

Instead, we’ve given it tacos and a $200 CASH JACKPOT.

Welcome to TACO ’BOUT MONDAY.

🌮 Fish OR chicken taco
🍟 Basket of fries
🍺 Speight’s OR Ultra
💰 $20 the lot
⏰ 5–8:30pm | Dine-in only

And because apparently feeding you properly wasn’t enough…

🎡 SPIN & WIN IS SITTING AT $200 TONIGHT.

Yep. Two hundred actual dollars.

Come in for dinner. Hang around for the spin. Potentially wander home fed, smug and $200 heavier.

Or stay home eating something beige in front of the telly.

Both are choices. One is considerably less depressing.

Otematata’s Best Dam Pub.
Making Mondays slightly less s**t since we decided they needed tacos.

09/08/2026

🍻 SUPER SUNDAY IS ON TODAY! 🍻

The jackpot has climbed to $180 CASH 💰

From 4pm–7pm we’ve got:

🍺 Super deals on big bottles & house wines
🐷 $5 Roast Pork Sandwiches
🥩 Chopped Butchery Meat Raffles
💵 $180 JACKPOT

Get yourself down to Otematata’s Best Dam Pub, settle in for a Sunday session and have a crack at taking home the cash.

Cold beer, cheap feeds and $180 up for grabs. Not a bad way to ruin Monday’s good intentions. 😏

📍 Otematata’s Best Dam Pub

FRIDAY’S COME IN HOT.We’ve got three glorious hours of Happy Hour from 4pm to 7pm, complimentary bar nibbles, the Spin &...
06/08/2026

FRIDAY’S COME IN HOT.

We’ve got three glorious hours of Happy Hour from 4pm to 7pm, complimentary bar nibbles, the Spin & Win wheel lurking between 6pm and 7pm, then the Warriors take on the Panthers live and loud on the big screens from 7:55pm.

So the Friday plan is fairly simple:

Clock off.
Get fed.
Get hydrated.
Spin something.
Yell at the telly.
Pretend Monday doesn’t exist.

Good people. Cold drinks. Big game. Questionable volume control.

See you at Otematata’s Best Dam Pub. Friday’s no time to be sensible.

☀️ Want to check the weather in Otematata?We’ve made it bloody easy.The Best Dam Cam is now live on our website. One qui...
06/08/2026

☀️ Want to check the weather in Otematata?

We’ve made it bloody easy.

The Best Dam Cam is now live on our website. One quick look and you’ll know exactly what’s happening before you hit the road.

Now… fair warning… if you’re checking it at this time of night, you’re probably going to see bu**er all except darkness. 🌚

Stick it in your favourites. Better yet, save it to your phone’s home screen.

That way there’s no more…
“Yeah, but it looked miserable on the coast so we stayed home.”

Nice try.

The coast isn’t Otematata.

We’ve got some of the best weather in the country. (Mostly. Sometimes Mother Nature has a couple of beers and makes other plans.)

So next time you’re wondering whether it’s worth the trip… don’t guess.

Check The Best Dam Cam.

One less excuse. One more reason to head for The Best Dam Pub.

https://www.bestdampub.nz/best-dam-cam

Address

2736 Otematata Kurow Road
Otematata
9412

Telephone

+6434387899

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