Andrew and Jane Dixon opened this tin-clad brewery bar at Onekaka in 1992, and it still pours its own beer, including the mānuka-flavoured Captain Cooker.
Steamed mussels and mussel chowder are what to order. Bands play most weeks, usually from 8 or 9pm, and kids head straight for the tyre swing in the courtyard.
Photos: Mike Dickison (CC BY 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons.
