Blind Finch

Top choice in Taupo & the Ruapehu Region


After a day of play in the mountains, there's nothing better than these beast-sized burgers cooked on a custom-made manuka wood-fire grill. A burger’s best friend is beer, and there are enough North Island craft beers here to fill a floor-to-ceiling blackboard, plus two shelves of gin.


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