The Watershed - Governors Bay

I love the watershed! Such a great place for breakfast lunch and dinner! Love coming here in the summer for a drink outside. The pancakes are to die for and I love the dinner menu the rice risotto being my favourite. The same waitress has always been working when I've been in, and she is so bubbly and hard working! Highly recommend the watershed!

Peter and I enjoyed our dinner here on the evening of one of the semi final game of Super Rugby. The food was glorious and the service was exceptional. Not sure whether it was heightened by the fact the boss and his wife was sitting at the table next to us. However the evening with a great dining experience set it up for a romantic 4 th anniversary celebration for us both. Thank you

Food very good and service exceptional. <br/ <br/ Pork belly was simply presented but beautifully cooked and with a nice accompaniment of roast Beetroot, broccoli and mashed potato. Seafood pasta was generous and had a lovely strong tomatoey flavour with generous, high quality seafood including large pieces of fish. The only criticism would be the entree platter which had too many deep fried foods for my taste, average cheese and lacklustre dips and bread. <br/ <br/ We went for a 60th birthday and the service was to be applauded. One of the waitresses was obviously new, but was still very pleasant and attentive. <br/ <br/ The woman I assume to be the duty manager needs particular positive mention. On querying whether the glass of wine we ordered was from the correct bottle (we had had it before), she went to check, assured us it was correct and poured us another glass from the bottle herself to remove any doubt in our minds. We were impressed. <br/ <br/ What's more, At the end of the night, we were given a bottle of wine to take home as a birthday present. <br/ <br/ Try it for yourself highly recommended

I've been meaning to write a review for The Watershed for some time because my wife and I go every so often. It's close to home and we trust the food and service there.<br/ <br/ Watershed is a reasonably big place and has the appearance of having 3 distinct dining personalities a section, as you enter, that has bar leaners and high seated bar stools being more pub looking. The restaurant section and what looks like a fine dining section but in essence, you are getting the same food and service in all 3 of those areas. There is also a large outdoor dining area as well, which I imagine will be fantastic in Summer.<br/ <br/ They used to have a arancini dish on the starter menu, which unfortunately they no longer serve. Unfortunate because it was one of my favourite dishes there but try the caramelised pork belly or the home made garlic bread, both are delicious.<br/ <br/ My pick of the mains is again the pork belly or the cashew crusted chicken.<br/ <br/ All the dishes that we have ever received there are well proportioned and presented really well. We have never had an issue with service and the place has always been nice and clean as well.<br/ <br/ The only down side is that it is a victim of it's own popularity. We have on many occasions seen large groups there so it can be pretty noisy when at it's busiest.<br/ <br/ The food is reasonably good value in that middle market and good quality. It is not the most fantastic place to dine in Christchurch but it is nowhere near the worst. For my wife and I, if we want to go somewhere where we know we will get a good meal, Watershed is up there.

I don't know about the negative reviews on here but I've been there twice and food was absolutely amazing both times so I definitely will be back and customer service was good but noticed there's was only 2 waiters on and it was weekend during dinner so would've been good if they had more waiter/waitresses on could see some people getting impatient but the food was great and i was one happy camper. Got my moneys worth and it's a really nice restaurant inside and out. Will be back for sure.