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Where to Eat and Drink on a South Pacific Yacht Charter
Our pick of the waterfront restaurants, yacht-club bars, cafés and beach clubs across the South Pacific, from Marina Taina on Tahiti and Motu Tiahura off Moorea to the yacht clubs of Huahine and Bora Bora, Musket Cove in Fiji, Neiafu harbour in Tonga and Nouméa’s Port Moselle. Filter by type or area, choose a place to find it on the map, and open its page for what to order and how to get there from the yacht.
Tahiti
Restaurant· Marina Taina, Punaauia, Tahiti
L’Instant Présent
A restaurant and lounge bar inside Marina Taina on Tahiti’s west coast, mixing French, Tahitian and Japanese cooking, with a teppanyaki room and a terrace facing Moorea.
Café· Papeete, Tahiti
Café Maeva
A café on the upper floor of Papeete’s municipal market, serving coffee, tea, smoothies and pastries, then local lunches with poisson cru, a short walk from the marina.
Café· Papeete, Tahiti
Urban Café
A brunch café on Rue Dumont d’Urville in central Papeete, open from 6am, with eggs Benedict, French toast and poke bowls, and a tropical garden in the back courtyard.
Moorea
Beach Club· Motu Tiahura, Moorea
Cocobeach
A family-run beach restaurant and lounge on Motu Tiahura, off Moorea’s north-west corner, serving lunch and cocktails on the sand, reached by its own shuttle boat or by tender.
Restaurant· Maharepa, Moorea
Moorea Beach Café
A lagoon-front restaurant in Maharepa on Moorea’s north shore, open all day since 2013, with its own floating dock, sunset tables, seafood, wood-fired pizzas and sushi.
Huahine
Bar· Fare, Huahine
Huahine Yacht Club
A waterfront bar and restaurant in Fare, Huahine’s main village, with a floating dinghy dock in front, a busy sunset happy hour and live music on Friday evenings.
Restaurant· Avea Bay, Huahine Iti
Hotel Le Mahana Restaurant & Bar
The beachfront restaurant and bar of Hotel Le Mahana in Avea Bay, Huahine Iti, open to visiting crews, with a dinghy dock, island cooking and a Thursday dance show.
Raiatea & Taha’a
Restaurant· Vaiaau, Tumaraa, Raiatea
Fare Vai Nui
The restaurant of a small family-run hotel on Raiatea’s west coast, with its own dock off the Toamaro anchorage, a pool and lagoon views towards Bora Bora.
Restaurant· Haamene, Taha’a
Taha’a Maitai
A village restaurant at the head of Haamene Bay on Taha’a, with a pier and two mooring buoys in front, known for Bruno’s vanilla-based menu.
Bora Bora
Restaurant· Vaitape, Bora Bora
Restaurant St James
An overwater restaurant in Vaitape, Bora Bora’s main village, pairing French cooking with local produce, with a lagoon terrace looking west towards Motu Toopua.
Restaurant· Povai Bay, Bora Bora
La Villa Mahana
A small fine-dining restaurant on the hillside above Povai Bay, opened in 2003 by Damien Rinaldi-Dovio, serving French cooking with Tahitian vanilla and lagoon fish.
Bar· Bora Bora
Bora Bora Yacht Club
A lagoon-side bar and restaurant just north of Vaitape, with a mooring field off its dock, shore services for crews, sunset drinks and a French and Polynesian menu.
Denarau & Nadi
Restaurant· Port Denarau, Denarau Island
Bonefish Seafood Restaurant
A waterfront seafood restaurant in the Port Denarau marina complex since 2010, known for its seafood platter, kokoda and a Fijian-style seafood feast served on banana leaves.
Restaurant· Port Denarau, Denarau Island
Indigo Indian Asian Restaurant & Bar
An Indian and Asian restaurant and bar on the Port Denarau waterfront since 2007, known for its masala mud crab, butter chicken and tandoori platters, with tables facing the marina.
Mamanuca Islands
Beach Club· Malamala Island, Mamanuca Islands
Malamala Beach Club
A day beach club that takes up a whole small island in the Mamanucas, with an infinity pool, cabanas, a Pacific menu and free moorings for private boats, half an hour from Port Denarau.
Bar· Musket Cove, Malolo Lailai
Musket Cove Yacht Club Island Bar
The yacht club bar of Musket Cove, on a tiny island joined to the marina by a floating walkway, where visiting crews meet for sunset drinks and grill their own barbecue.
Vava’u
Café· Neiafu, Vava’u
Café Tropicana
A long-running Neiafu café and cruisers’ base on Fatafehi Road, with Kingdom Koffee espresso, home baking and all-day breakfasts, plus provisioning, laundry and tour bookings for yachts.
Restaurant· Neiafu, Vava’u
Bellavista Cafe & Restaurant
An Italian-style café and restaurant in Guttenbeil Plaza, Neiafu, with a view over the Port of Refuge, serving espresso and pizza by day and local fish, lobster and pasta at dinner.
Nouméa
Restaurant· Port Moselle, Nouméa
Le Bout du Monde
A brasserie and oyster bar facing the yachts in Nouméa’s Port Moselle marina since 1997, open daily from breakfast to late evening, with a rooftop and live music at weekends.
Restaurant· Anse Vata, Nouméa
Le Roof
A restaurant on stilts at the end of the Anse Vata pier in Nouméa, with a 360-degree view over the lagoon and French cooking built on New Caledonian seafood and produce.
Café· Baie des Citrons, Nouméa
Lemon Bay Café
A brunch café in the Mirage Plaza facing the Baie des Citrons beach, run in the style of an Australian café, with a long coffee list, fresh juices, smoothie bowls and generous salads.