Coalfire Queenstown

Enjoy Meat as Meat is Meant to Be at Coalfire Queenstown.

Fired up and delivering smoky hot flavours, Coalfire is a uniquely Queenstown dining experience offering a meat orientated menu using the finest produce off the hills and farms, cooked low and slow over hot coals to craft food with a distinctive smoky edge.

Nestled upstairs and downstairs in the historic Eureka House it is hard to imagine a more apt venue for Coalfire. The building has been renovated sympathetically to showcase the heritage fabric of this 150-year-old-building. With its old schist walls, locally made metal gantries, raw metal balustrades, rough sawn wood panels and epxosed brick, the ambience is warm and earthy and approachable. Perfectly in sync with the smoky slow cooked cuisine.

The latest menu launching in Autumn 2017 sees Coalfire further supporting local farmers by showcasing prime local produce from around their Southern backyard. Favourites include meaty St Louis cut pork ribs, Brisket smoked over fire for 14 hours, pork belly with maple glaze, tender melt in your mouth Cardrona lamb shoulder, a Classic beef Wellington cooked to perfection and a hefty selection of steaks seared over flame and accompanied by your sauce of choice. Coalfire is all about meat as meat is meant to be but it is not all doom and gloom for seafood and vegetable lovers. Coalfire backs up its meat offerings with a robust selection of seafood and salads including Tempura soft shell crab, a smoky delicious seafood chowder, cold smoked Stewart Island Salmon, South Coast Sole, Yellow fin Tuna, goats cheese and cumin pastry and a full supporting act of hand cut chips, smoked potato mash, winter greens, mac and cheese and more.

Open from 11am to late, Coalfire kicks off every day with a hearty brunch menu, followed by lunch, bar snacks and burgers leading into dinner from 5 pm until late. Coalfire is popular and it is advisable to book your upstairs table for evening dining.

As well as offering food that is loaded with flavour and unashamedly good Coalfire also offers a damn fine selection of craft beers and local wines. Taking centre stage is Coalfire’s own ‘Pit Master’ Ale, brewed locally by Altitude Brewery, sitting on tap alongside four other craft beers from Altitude and Queenstown Brewers. Two restaurant bars – one upstairs and one down – also offer a choice of sublime cocktails and local Central Otago wines.