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.

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

WE’VE APPARENTLY FORGOTTEN HOW TO KEEP MONEY.It’s Thrifty Thursday, which means $1 dumplings are marching out of the kit...
06/08/2026

WE’VE APPARENTLY FORGOTTEN HOW TO KEEP MONEY.

It’s Thrifty Thursday, which means $1 dumplings are marching out of the kitchen, while tonight’s Spin & Win jackpot sits at $120 cash.

The money’s been flying out the door lately, and frankly, our accountant looks haunted.

Come in, get warm, eat an irresponsible number of dumplings, have a crack at the wheel and possibly head home richer than you arrived.

Worst case? Full belly. Warm toes. Questionable dumpling maths.

Best case? We pay for your Thursday. 🥟💸

A FORMAL COMPLAINT HAS BEEN LODGED AGAINST SUPER SUNDAY.Apparently it’s making an ordinary Sunday look embarrassingly un...
02/08/2026

A FORMAL COMPLAINT HAS BEEN LODGED AGAINST SUPER SUNDAY.

Apparently it’s making an ordinary Sunday look embarrassingly underdressed.

Today’s evidence:

🥪 $5 roast meat sammies
🥩 Chopped Butchery meat raffles loaded with the good stuff
🍺 Great bloody deals on the big bottles
🍷 House wine deals worth putting proper pants on for
🎡 Spin & Win sitting at $100 CASH

Get your app scanned and get yourself in the running. The wheel paid out yesterday, reset overnight, and is now sitting there looking far too confident for an inanimate object.

Come in for a quiet Sunday.

Leave with dinner, cash, or at the very least a better story than “I folded washing.”

Super Sunday. Today at Otematata’s Best Dam Pub.
Your couch has had enough attention.

WE COULD TURN THE HEATER UP… BUT THIS IS MUCH MORE FUN. 🔥The Spin & Win Jackpot has been cleaned out again, with Grant M...
01/08/2026

WE COULD TURN THE HEATER UP… BUT THIS IS MUCH MORE FUN. 🔥

The Spin & Win Jackpot has been cleaned out again, with Grant Munro spinning his way to a tidy $140 cash.

How bloody good. Congratulations, Grant. Try not to blow it all on sensible things.

The wheel cops a factory reset tomorrow and the jackpot starts climbing again from $100.

And because Sundays shouldn’t be wasted doing chores and pretending to enjoy them, it’s also SUPER SUNDAY:

🥪 $5 roast meat sammies
🥩 Mega Chopped Butchery meat raffles
🍺 Big bottle specials
🍷 House wine deals
🎡 Spin & Win Jackpot back at $100

Cold outside. Warm pub. Meat prizes. Cash prizes. Questionable excuses for not being here.

This is how you thaw out a chilly weekend properly.
See you tomorrow at Otematata’s Best Dam Pub.

Address

2736 Otematata Kurow Road
Otematata
9412

Telephone

+6434387899

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