The HEKE

The HEKE The Heke Kitchen is a relaxed, vibrant, family friendly restaurant & bar set in 4 acres of gardens, and home to Waiheke Whisky and Waiheke Brewing Co.
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Two local Waiheke families with a shared vision have worked together to create a relaxed pub-style restaurant. A new home for each of our growing businesses, The HEKE is where you’ll experience The HEKE Kitchen, Waiheke Brewing Co. and Waiheke Whisky, ​all nestled into 4 acres of beautiful gardens. Open from Christmas 2021, the brand new restaurant takes its place on Waiheke Island’s much-loved go

lden mile, Onetangi Straight. With it’s striking interiors and sun-soaked spaces envisioned by Izzard Design’s award-winning architectural & interior design team, the ‘heke is a Waiheke first. A place where rustic meets modern, where class meets the classic kiwi relaxed island lifestyle. We want The HEKE to embrace the kiwi bach lifestyle. A special place to bring friends & family - relax over a roaring fire, watch your food be made in front of you as you dine, taste world-class whisky and watch the kids play on the giant jumping pillow. It’s a dining experience like no other on the Island. Next year The HEKE will be joined alongside by a spectacular new brewery, distillery and tasting room.

⚽ FIFA action is live at The Heke!We're showing every FIFA match that falls within our opening hours, so if it's on, the...
12/06/2026

⚽ FIFA action is live at The Heke!

We're showing every FIFA match that falls within our opening hours, so if it's on, there's a good chance you'll catch it here.

Watch the games from our Main Bar or go big in the Barrel Hall, where our giant screen brings every goal, tackle and celebration to life.

Check the post for the matches we're showing, grab your crew, a cold drink and settle in for the beautiful game.

📍 The Heke, Waiheke Island
🍻 Great beer, great food, big football energy

Your local Pub every Friday.Every Friday through winter we're busting out special prices on drinks and snacks.$10 tap be...
11/06/2026

Your local Pub every Friday.

Every Friday through winter we're busting out special prices on drinks and snacks.
$10 tap beer (425ml)
$10 wine - Stormwood Rose & Alan Scott Pinot Gris
$15 Cocktails - your faves: Thyme to Shine, Sunny Limoncello Spritz, Waiheke Whisky Highball
Low prices on our Southern Fried Chicken, Two Perfect Tacos & more.

From 3 pm right through to closing at 8 pm.

It's more than Happy Hour - it's your local pub, every day, but especially Fridays.

After work chats, school's out debriefs, dinner dates with mates... we are you local, and you're our local.

Every Sunday from this weekend, right through winter, we serve a special that-day-only curry. Head Chef Andrei and his t...
05/06/2026

Every Sunday from this weekend, right through winter, we serve a special that-day-only curry.

Head Chef Andrei and his team make this from scratch with the best ingredients, slow cooking the sauces and changing it up.

This week we have 'Special Pork Vindaloo':
Charcoal-grilled pork (200gm), slow cooked house-made vindaloo sauce, shallot chilli & coriander salsa, on potato foam, served with a generous garlic naan bread.

Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Book your table, and add ‘Curry Please x __’ to the notes if you'd like to reserve one for you and/or your guests.

Book online or email [email protected] :-)

P.S.
Keep your eyes peeled for our Winter Calendar of events!

-Local Pub Fridays (epic specials every Friday!)
-FIFA World Cup
-Kids Eat Free July School Holidays
-Loyalty Program Launch!
-Music in the Barrel Hall
-Open Whisky Nights
-We are open 7 days a week, Restaurant Thurs-Mon and PIZZA Tues/Weds!

29/05/2026

📢 Please give a warm welcome to our Winter Menu!

👑 We are open all Kings Birthday weekend for you to come and meet it! Chef says it’s the best yet. Try this:

Two Perfect Tacos: Grilled pork, chorizo, fennel parsnip whip, pear and parsley salsa, served on a small soft wheat taco

The Best Crudo: Today’s fresh fish, chilli lime dressing, tempura nori chips, mango, mint and coriander finished with a drizzle of chili oil

Beef Tartare: Edge-seared beef, thinly sliced, with shallot mayo, horseradish and watercress, served over fried rye bread

Charcoal Grilled Steak: Grilled Eye fillet, silken celeriac, onion jus, chives, crispy shallots

Roast Lamb Revival: Roasted lamb, smooth kumara mash, buttered baby peas, mint yoghurt sauce, kumara chips, kawakawa oil

Sensational Vegetarian Pizza: Bechemel, garlic roasted cauliflower, lemon tahini, leek and date jam, grana padano, parsley
Vegan minus bechamel & grano padano

Choritzo Pizza: Chorizo, roasted pumpkin, cavolo nero, pickled shallots, chili oil on a base of Mascarpone.

👋🏽 See you here!

🔥 The fires on!

Are you nearly 50 already? Do you need to impress some clients?Are you turning 30? Is it mum‘s 60th? Are you trying to ...
11/05/2026

Are you nearly 50 already?
Do you need to impress some clients?
Are you turning 30?
Is it mum‘s 60th?
Are you trying to plan a Wedding?

We really overdeliver!

it’s not just a beautiful venue with gardens and spaces to relax and celebrate. The food we present is not just your standard event food. It’s food you are so happy to eat, so happy to present to people that are important to you, memorable food as well as a memorable event. It’s possible here!

jump onto our website and look at functions and pop us a message whether it’s this year next year - Monday daytime or a Saturday night, a big event or a small event.

If you’re planning an event on Waiheke Island hit us up. We’d love to hear from you and send a proposal through. and even better - to host you here and see the smiles.

Here she is!Come in and try it, it’s being served right now.Right right now 👋🏽Open all weekend!Weekend starts Thursday!W...
07/05/2026

Here she is!

Come in and try it, it’s being served right now.
Right right now 👋🏽

Open all weekend!

Weekend starts Thursday!

Waiheke Island 🏝️

With 2400 nominations we’re thrilled to have been awarded a spot in the 2026 100 Iconic Auckland Eats! A huge shout out...
06/05/2026

With 2400 nominations we’re thrilled to have been awarded a spot in the 2026 100 Iconic Auckland Eats!

A huge shout out to our chefs, to our guests and especially to for nominating our Sichuan Cucumber Salad

With a change of season our new menu is due to launch but we’ve had to break the rules and keep this salad on for another season so that everyone who hasn’t tried it can try it and those who love it can go back to it.

The biggest Thank you ♥️ goes to the incredible team at Tataki Auckland -who do so much work to try, photograph, write about, put on their website, and run this incredible promotion of Auckland hospitality. We are very grateful to be in the cool club!

When I asked about this dish head chef Andrei Rotar said:
“Working in Auckland, you’re surrounded by amazing, everyday food—especially around Dominion Road. That really influenced me. There’s so much bold, punchy flavour in those spots, and it’s all about being fresh and craveable.
This dish is about taking that same energy and applying a bit more precision to something really simple like cucumber—keeping it seasonal and accessible, but turning it into something people actually remember.”

See you soon!

Take me hommmmme 🎶🎵🚨 We offer takeaways every day. 🍕🍔🍗When the main restaurant is open Thursday til Sunday, choose takea...
27/04/2026

Take me hommmmme 🎶🎵

🚨 We offer takeaways every day.

🍕🍔🍗When the main restaurant is open Thursday til Sunday, choose takeaway from a range of favourites. Burgers, pizza, fried chicken and more.

🍕On Tuesday and Wednesday we’re open for snacks and drinks in the Boilermaker Tasting Bar and Barrel Hall, and now we also have PIZZA available! You can order to takeaway on our website or come in and order to go.

Come in for a PIZZA and a drink mid week!

See you soon x

If you are a natural front of house / cellar door host, with a way with words, an interest in craft beverages, living (o...
14/04/2026

If you are a natural front of house / cellar door host, with a way with words, an interest in craft beverages, living (or will live) on Waiheke Island, we have a remarkable opportunity for you. All applications treated with confidence, please apply by email as below - thank you!

12/04/2026

Bit of a change in subject today, because it’s our first ever closed Sunday. We chose to keep our team safe and give everyone a rest after a busy few weeks. We’ll be back tomorrow and every day after.

Yesterday, out beady-eyed team spotted this lil lady working hard on site.

A female praying mantis creates an egg sac, or ootheca, in late summer by secreting a foamy, protein-based substance from her abdomen, which hardens around 50–400 eggs into a polystyrene-like protective shell. She meticulously shapes this foam onto twigs or structures to protect the eggs from predators and winter temperatures.

Not so much about cold temperatures here, because it’s still warm every day. But this crazy little thing is gonna keep her eggs safe for the next six weeks or so until they hatch. And then loads of baby praying mantis’ will be mosying around, doing their work, while we do ours.

How cool is that!

If you like to dance make sure you check out the epic ‘gather’ event we are having on Saturday the 18th, it’s incredible value loads of acts and only $20 a ticket.

Lotsa love ❤️👋🏽

This is it! Why we do what we do:😀We know that things are a challenging right now.😀We know you have a lot of options whe...
09/04/2026

This is it! Why we do what we do:
😀We know that things are a challenging right now.
😀We know you have a lot of options when it comes to where you'll go, and who you trust with your precious day, and your friends & family.
😀We understand that you don't come out just because you are hungry! You want to feel welcomed, wanted and appreciated.
😀THANK YOU for visiting us, we do appreciate all of the above, and we're grateful to see you every time.

😍Love, all of us x

Thank you for joining us for lunch you absolute legend 🏉 And for making the teams’ day with your high tolerance for fan...
09/04/2026

Thank you for joining us for lunch you absolute legend 🏉

And for making the teams’ day with your high tolerance for fan photos.

The sun came out today, and the school holidays power on.

The new jumping pillow has been packed up ready for shipping, approximately 2340830 kilos of it..

You’ll be the first to know when we get it here and get it installed 🙏❤️

Remember our whisky and beer “Grain to Glass’ tour runs every day at 11.15 am, and it’s a great rainy day activity for mum, dad and grandma.

Thank you very much again Kieran 🙌🏽🏉❤️

We are the luckiest!Our wonderful talented and kind chef made this incredible delicious bunny cake for the team. This is...
05/04/2026

We are the luckiest!

Our wonderful talented and kind chef made this incredible delicious bunny cake for the team. This is what makes The Heke - The Heke! A sense of belonging and teamwork out the back, means you get to share in the happy vibes when you’re sitting out front.

Our warmest Easter wishes to you and yours from all of us,

Love ❤️ 🐣 x

02/04/2026

It’s an absolute tragedy.

When it happened yesterday we were in shock. We went through the stages of grief including denial, bargaining (with the repair guy), and finally acceptance.

We’ve already chosen a brand-new colour for a new jumping pillow and got the mothballs out of the wallet to buy it; these things are an investment!

But you’re worth it, even though you’ve worn this puppy out, until she couldn’t support even one more bounce.

What would be really amazing is if you liked or commented or shared this post, tell us why you love the jumping pillow, it will help get the word out. Because truth is, that we’re a little bit jumping pillow short for the next couple of weeks which happens to be school holidays.

This is gonna prove whether you just love us for the jumping pillow or whether you really love us. We are still here the sandpit is here, the little kitchen’s going. The board games are going & the colouring, the golf simulators, ⛳️ the smiles and the epic food.

We are here for you, the real question is are you here for us in the bad times as well as the good.

Come on, give us a week comment and help spread this terrible news.

🐥🐣 Happy hoppy Easter, we are open every single day and we are really busy on Saturday but we would love to see you especially on Friday Sunday or Monday. 😅😆🙏

Love always,
us ❤️

We are so excited about chocolate and eggs and everything new 🐥🐣Come and see us on Easter Saturday is really busy but Fr...
01/04/2026

We are so excited about chocolate and eggs and everything new 🐥🐣

Come and see us on Easter Saturday is really busy but Friday Sunday and Monday we have space, we are closed on Thursday though that’s tomorrow because we have a very special wedding. It’s the last one well actually it’s the second one of the season and also the last one. We hardly ever close but tomorrow is one of those very rare days so bear with us.

🌟✨We are looking for two superstar waiters. One x full time permanent & One x Saturday only. 😊You'll love to look after ...
30/03/2026

🌟✨We are looking for two superstar waiters.
One x full time permanent & One x Saturday only.

😊You'll love to look after guests and bring smiles and an eagerness to represent our food, drinks and brands.

🫶We offer a fun, supportive and professional environment, with the chance to learn and grow.
💰Competitive pay, great benefits.
📪Please email [email protected] with your CV and a cover note.

🥰Let's talk! :-)

Have the best night with us THIS SATURDAY… niggghhhttttt…. Kicking off at 5 pm with rock band Cassius - the best full ro...
25/03/2026

Have the best night with us THIS SATURDAY… niggghhhttttt….

Kicking off at 5 pm with rock band Cassius - the best full rock band 🎸 playing covers and going on until 8 pm when epic legendary DJ General Lee 🎧 comes in and plays til 11pm 💃🕺

Rain or shine it’s on -we have it all wrapped up.

🍸🍹COCKTAILS- yesss Margaritas
🍻🍺 BEERS
🍕🍔 DELICIOUS FOOD
💃🕺 GOOD TIMES

Tickets on sale link in our bio, door sales might be available if not sold out

Come and have fun with us 🤩

It’s hard to go past a Margherita pizza.Tomato, basil, cheese and mozzarella.And the homemade hand stretched dough our a...
23/03/2026

It’s hard to go past a Margherita pizza.
Tomato, basil, cheese and mozzarella.

And the homemade hand stretched dough our amazing chefs make at the crack of dawn so it has time to prove perfectly 🍕

Pizza is soul food, we’re here seven days a week.

Nah, you don’t have to be a VVIP to visit us but some of our favourites have come in for a bite and a brew.Can you name ...
21/03/2026

Nah, you don’t have to be a VVIP to visit us but some of our favourites have come in for a bite and a brew.

Can you name any of these familiar faces?

We’re still open seven days a week!

It’s Sunday funday ☀️🥃🍻🍹

It’s not often this happens…We have two dates coming up when we are closed for private events.Tomorrow Friday 20th March...
19/03/2026

It’s not often this happens…

We have two dates coming up when we are closed for private events.

Tomorrow Friday 20th March we are closed all day.

And then again on the 2nd April.

Otherwise it’s fun times as usual! We’re open today until 7 pm.

Let’s get together for a great weekend ✨🎣🏝️💃🕺

Last minute??? Yes but its time for a Guinness!We have some epic decorations thanks to See you today 12-5 pm
16/03/2026

Last minute??? Yes but its time for a Guinness!

We have some epic decorations thanks to

See you today 12-5 pm

Little snippet of UGC from the weekend. Thank you for the visits, the laughs, and for loving our food and drinks as much...
09/03/2026

Little snippet of UGC from the weekend.

Thank you for the visits, the laughs, and for loving our food and drinks as much we love to share them with you!

Come and see us every day, open 7 days ☀️

The Heke Fest is BACK! A celebration of Kiwi culture, craft beer and epic live music!An unforgettable day, starting off ...
24/02/2026

The Heke Fest is BACK! A celebration of Kiwi culture, craft beer and epic live music!

An unforgettable day, starting off the afternoon at 5pm with epic 5-piece covers band CASSIUS followed by DJ GENERAL LEE until 11pm, keeping the good vibes flowing into the night.

Immerse yourself in true Kiwiana while enjoying freshly brewed beer and mouth-watering BBQ specials, along with The Heke’s menu.

Show off your most creative Kiwi outfit in our best-dressed competition, catch an incredible live band and LEGENDARY DJ - discover plenty more surprises throughout the event. Buy tickets now!

Don’t miss this massive celebration of music, mates and classic Kiwi culture! Tickets on sale now at Flicket from $25 (link in bio or on our website).

General Lee is one of New Zealand’s most respected and renowned DJs. He mixed New Zealand’s first Ministry of Sound CD in 2011 and again in 2013, both of which were a resounding success. Lee has done 350 radio shows for Ministry of Sound in New Zealand, and is currently the host of George FM breakfast every Friday morning. He is recognised for his uptight sets, crowd interaction, diverse track selection, scratching and CDJ trickery. General Lee enjoys mainstream success and underground respect. He has recently played alongside: Example, Netsky, Chase & Status, Fedde Le Grand, Sneaky Sound System, Freemasons, Groove Armada , Roger Sanchez, TV Rock, Goodwill, Dirty South, Axwell, Tommy Trash, Moto Blanco, Mobin Master, Klass, Tommie Sunshine, Those Usual Suspects, and Aston Shuffle - to name a few. General Lee has been selected as the DJ of choice for international superstars including Coldplay, Temper Trap, Eva Longoria, Robbie Williams, and Duran Duran.

Hi we have a food grade drum and quite a few good pallets available free to pick up (more than in pic).If anyone wants t...
18/02/2026

Hi we have a food grade drum and quite a few good pallets available free to pick up (more than in pic).
If anyone wants them, and will pock up, please give us a call on 09 3720020 or email [email protected] 

Address

64 Onetangi Road, Onetangi, Waiheke Island
Auckland
1081

Telephone

+6493720020

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