eat, see and do...

for a comprehensive website covering places to eat and everything to see and do in the port stephens area, please visit the official port stephens website

the places to eat and drink we have listed below are amongst our personal favourites in the area. they are in no particular order of preference

Fin(er) Dining

• Poyers at Lemon Tree Passage. a 35 minute drive from ilanga. very nice for lunch. 

• Little Beach Boat House (upstairs). 5 minute drive from ilanga. very nice restaurant

• Saltwater Restaurant Fingal Bay. 10 minute drive from ilanga. good restaurant. lovely location.

• Zenith Restaurant & Bar Shoal Bay. 10 minute drive from ilanga. a new restaurant with some good reviews

Casual Dining

• Shoal Bay Country Club. 10 minute drive from ilanga. very casual, really nice pizza, but has good steak, fish and a range of other foods. great atmosphere particularly on weekends when they have live music … assuming they are back to doing this now with Covid. Note you can't book here so best to try and go early

• Sandpipers restaurant. 5 minute walk from ilanga

• Little Beach Boat House (downstairs). 5 minute drive from ilanga. very nice restaurant

• Bay Harbour Café. Nice relatively cheap place for lunch right on the water. Ask for a table outside on the side. 8 minute walk from ilanga, just near the main Marina

• The Seabreeze Hotel. a 5 minute walk from ilanga. very nice restaurant/steakhouse. it has a nice pub too

• Sunan 9 Thai.  a 5 minute walk from ilanga. good Thai food

• Crest Restaurant Birubi Beach. a 15 minute drive from ilanga. decent food and great views as it is right on the beach

• Saltwater Restaurant Fingal Bay. a 10 minute drive from ilanga. good food and Fingal Bay is beautiful ! 

• Soldiers Point restaurants. About a 15-20 minute drive from the apartment. You should go to Soldiers Point to watch a Sunset one evening because it's beautiful there. There are a few restaurants there to choose from

• Cookabarra. If you like Barramundi, this is the place to go for lunch. It's about a 25 minute drive from ilanga. Very nice

• Do you love Oysters ? If so, you just have to go to Holberts Oyster Farm. Just a 15 minute drive from ilanga

• The Home Kitchen. Nice food set in a Home Interiors shop which is worth a walk around too. 5 minute walk from ilanga

• best Coffee is Evviva. 4 minute walk from the apartment. near Woolies. they have nice light meals too

• best brekkie places (and casual dining too) The Little Nels. 5 minute walk from ilanga and Essence. 4 minute walk from ilanga

• best ice-cream in town is definitely Neros. 5 minute walk from ilanga

if you feel like cooking, there is also a very nice fish market at the Nelson Bay Marina. Worth having a look at as they have very fresh fish

want some nice meat for a BBQ ? you can't go wrong at Guys Choice Cuts. just a 5 minute walk from ilanga