Skyline supper club
The seventh floor of the iconic Manchester Street Muse Hotel is home to the aptly named Seven – a statement of modern design and dining culture. The avant-garde restaurant and bar is a grand yet intimate space, with a 180-degree outlook over the East Frame of Christchurch; Raoura Park is at its base and New Brighton and the Port Hills on the horizon.
The Manchester Street address contains three distinct but seamlessly connected spaces: a welcoming, martini-perfect lobby lounge bar, the already well known and ever so popular Pink Lady Rooftop for al fresco cocktails pre or post-dinner, and the main restaurant with lofty ceilings and a private dining area.
The Seven dining room is a statement of modern design and dining culture. Voluptuous booth seating creates an opulent yet relaxed supper-club feel; grey, black, and natural tones merge with dark timber and leather furnishings. The ceiling is alight with LED installations while soaring windows capture one of this city’s only views of the iconic Christchurch Port Hills whilst dining with the gritty SALT district below.
Soft lighting encourages the customer to engage with the setting through intimacy, conversations, and blinking lights of the city beneath. Upbeat tempo music creates engagement with a blend of the fine and casual.
This heritage-listed central city building offers one of the city’s best wine lists, paired with extraordinarily attentive service that provides the partnership that makes good for almost any occasion you can think of.
Restaurateur Tom Newfield describes it as a ‘wine bar in the sky’.
“We offer creative dishes designed to pair and share, washed down with explorative local and international beverage producers.”
Tom is excited to bring the ‘art of à la carte’ to the centrepiece, allowing diners to curate their own experience, promising no two visits need ever be the same. The contemporary cuisine is Los Angeles inspired and a melting pot of Italian, Asian, French, and Mexican with intriguing and bold flavours.
Make sure you look for the left-field spins on classic dishes while the wine bar and winery are influenced by modern street food elements. Everything is designed to be shared and paired.
The dishes are presented straightforwardly on the menu, yet this doesn’t diminish their complexity. The tidy list of ingredients belies the clever technique and skill behind them. It’s all beautifully executed; a slick, understated operation with an open kitchen and that indefinable X-factor that restaurateur Tom Newfield weaves into each new venture, setting a high bar for Christchurch’s hospitality spaces.
Seven is the best place to finish your night with a setting sun and a dash of fun.
