Our True South Dining room expresses our pride in the region with a menu of dishes, for both breakfast and dinner, based on local produce from high quality suppliers in the area south of Christchurch.

Buying local not only assures us of freshness and quality control, it’s good for our carbon footprint, reducing our food miles at a time when the need for environmentally sustainable practices is growing.

At True South, we offer monthly menu changes, with seasonal variations, to feature foods such as West Coast whitebait, Stewart Island blue cod, salmon, mussels, crayfish, abalone and oysters, Bendigo Station merino lamb, free range pork from Havoc Waimate, rabbit and other game meats from Tarris Game. Gibbston Valley and Oamaru Whitestone cheeses, and Kenmuir olive oil.

We provide a choice of the best wines from the different sub-regions of Central Otago, Emmerson’s ales from Dunedin, Mt Pisa mineral water, and delicious local fruit juices.

Our chefs use local produce to create a range of special dishes and platters to compliment selections of from our professionally managed, private cellar stock of world-renowned chateau wines from Bordeaux.

At The Rees Hotel Queenstown, we are committed to projecting local Central Otago’s history, heritage and character, in the original art throughout the hotel, in the collection of books on the settlement of the region in our lounge library, and now in the menu of the True South Dining Room.

The True South Dining Room epitomises sophisticated elegant dining with an emphasis on the fantastic produce from our district, served in truly mouth watering dishes. A new menu is created monthly with the best seasonal ingredients showcasing the talents and passion of our creative chefs. True South is stylish and sumptuous, perfect for an evening of the most delicious food and splendid wine. Daydream as you scan the breath-taking view across Lake Wakatipu to the Remarkable Mountains, have an intimate chat at a discreet corner table or enjoy a star studded evening on our balcony. True South is a taste of Southern Hospitality at its best.