Review: Tantalising selections at Tantalus on Waiheke Island

Review: Tantalising selections at Tantalus on Waiheke Island
Every level of the Tantalus dining experience is excellent.
Helen van Berkel
The journey is half the fun when visiting Tantalus Estate Vineyard on Waiheke Island. First, you book online. You have to hand over your credit-card details before you even open a menu, and are warned of a $50 per person cancellation fee ($150 given there were three of us).  Then you have to figure out the confusing ferry timetable and gulp at the fares ($29.50 each, one way, with an AT Hop concession). Then you check the weather forecast and discover it will rain all day. Then you shrug your shoulders and dust off your AT Hop ca...

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