Serves meat, vegan options available. Italian restaurant with bar, part of the Steamer Wharf complex with mid-range bars and restaurants. Will offer a separate full vegan menu including desserts on request. Has vegan cheese and labelled vegan wines. Reported owners are vegetarians. Reservation suggested. Open Mon-Sun 12:00pm-9:30pm.
Categories: Lacto, Ovo, Pizza, Italian, Beer/Wine, Delivery, Take-out, Non-veg
30 Reviews
First Review by Pinkkat NZ
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delicious italian vegan food! - Edit
Amazing vegan pizzas- didnt try pastas but portions looked good and everything smelt delicious! They had vegan sausage and cashew cream cheese pizza on special which was phenomenal. Dessert portions huge too! Not cheap but pizzas are so big and filling for $23 that that was enough for my whole meal. Great find in Queenstown!
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Vegan Menu - Edit
Friendly staff and separate vegan menu. Food was above average, but not fantastic. Location is convenient to downtow. Prices were kind of high for what it is, but I think that’s a symptom of location. 10”thin crust pizzas were about $23-25 and pasta bowls were $23-28
Pros: Separate vegan menu, Friendly staff, Location
Cons: Price, Limited selection
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if in Queenstown, absolutely!! - Edit
Not just token vegan options but a full menu from starters to dessert!! Delicious food and fun staff, just get here and make you sure you book!!
Pros: full range menu, delicious
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Great vegan dinner spot! - Edit
This Italian restaurant is awesome! They have a whole separate vegan menu with appetizers, mains, sides, and desserts. We enjoyed it so much that we went back twice. We particularly enjoyed the pizza and the calzone. Didn’t try any desserts, but I’m sure they’re delicious!
Friendly staff was the cherry on top!
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best food in Queenstown - Edit
Awesome seperate vegan menu with heaps of options and lots of cheese.
Even has dessert options would rate 5/5 if I could
Pros: seperate vegan menu super tastey
Cons: little bit pricey but not too bad
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Good food - Edit
Separate vegan menu, with several starters, sides, main courses and desserts. Very good food, the chocolate cake was dry though.
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had a great pasta dish - Edit
Loved having an entire page of vegan dishes to choose. I had a pasta dish that had a very very delicious tomato sauce.
Pros: many vegan options, delicious, upmarket
Cons: a few dollars more than other places
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Delicious - Edit
Cozy restaurant, super friendly staff and delicious (and really well served) food. But I must advice about a strange fact: the new vegan menu has a non vegan meal. I’ve asked for the pappardelle pasta and few minutes later the waitress returned to my table to say that it has eggs as an ingredient. Despite that, I had in this restaurant the most delicious meal during my entire trip in New Zealand.
Pros: Delicious and well served meal
Cons: Strange vegan menu
1 Response
Loudogqueenstown 10 Mar 2018 - The mushroom pasta on the vegan menu IS vegan. The pappardelle had eggs but menu had already gone to print. So now it comes with penne
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amazing Italian food! - Edit
My husband and I ate here and absolutely loved it! I’m vegan he’s vegetarian. They have a full vegan menu and my meal was in the top 3 Italian meals that I’ve had in 20 years of being vegan! I would pass on the Beetroot Tart, it sounds more exciting than it is. But the Gnocchi... that Gnochi!!! Oh my god, heavenly! They also had a new vegan, coconut Panne Cotta. Super light and tasty. Definitely go here!
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A must do! - Edit
I absolutely LOVED my dinner at this italian restaurant. They wait staff were so helpful and attentive. Make sure to ask for the vegan menu when you enter as it is no given straight away. I had garlic bread with vegan cheese and a tomato penne and bread crumb pasta. It was sooooo good!
Pros: Huge serving and very filling, Great wait staff and location, Vegan Menu
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best vegan pizza! - Edit
4:30-6 is $15 pizzas and it is beyond worth it. Just smashed our way through the Mediterranean and Bianco (bianco gets four thumbs waaaay up) and ordered the Napoli immediately afterward. So happy we found this place! Would've given it 5 stars but happy cow won't let me cause it's not all-vegetarian.
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vegan menu!!! - Edit
Delicious and just the right amount of filling! :) Highly recommended x
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it's whole separate vegan menu! - Edit
Amazing pizza and so nice to walk into a restaurant and have a whole menu to choice from. Thank you Farelli for the amazing vegan pizza and chocolate cake I indulged in for dinner last night. The pizza was so tasty, and I loved the whole roasted garlic pieces on it. Will be back for sure next trip.
Pros: lots of choice, good vegan cheese , great atmosphere and lovely staff
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Delisious And Vegan-options - Edit
They have a Vegan menu! :)
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Delicious authentic vegan Italian food - Edit
It is worth going to this restaurant just in order to try their fabulous vegan garlic bread. Order it with Angel food mozzarella (it is definitely worth paying extra). It was hands down the best garlic bread I've ever had (and yes, worth $13)
This place also has a seperate vegan menu on request, with vegan gnocchi ($26), penne all'arrabiata ($20), both wonderful. There are also very good pizzas with vegan mozarella, which cost only $15 between 4:30 and 6pm.
Very friendly staff.
Overall, a quite fancy but really lovely restaurant with delicious authentic Italian vegan food.
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Delicious Vegan Italian Options - Edit
My best friend and I traveled to Queenstown from Melbourne nervous about what we would eat, both of us being vegan in a quite small town. We love Italian food, and never expected to find a restaurant like this in Queenstown - we had accepted that we'd just be eating salad and chips (the typical vegan options at non-vegan eateries!) for the entirety of our stay.
But oh no, how wrong we were. This place is AMAZING. Yes, they serve meat, BUT they have a separate menu that is not just vegetarian but FULLY VEGAN!
It's full of amazing Italian dishes which taste like authentic Italian food (as an Italian vegan, take my word for it ;-)) and are sooo full of flavour.
The highlights for me were the cheesy garlic bread (!), the gnocchi, the panzerotti, and the pizzas. Sooo damn good.
Not cheap, but honestly, if you can afford to have one night at a more pricey restaurant, go here! It's worth it.
Pros: Large range of vegan dishes to choose from, Absolutely delicious meals, Traditional Italian food (but made vegan!)
Cons: A bit expensive, Can be busy and noisy - try to book in advance
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Yummy Pizza - Edit
Best Italian I've ever had! The vegan menu and amazing and has so many options even a chocolate cake. Had the mushroom pizza and it was bloody delicious.
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Best vegan pizza in NZ!! - Edit
After having pizza in Auckland, Wellington and various other places, this is without a doubt the best pizza I've had in New Zealand! They use angel mozzarella, which is always good, but it's actually the base that makes the pizza so incredible. It's so crisp and tender, no sogginess, just the right texture. It's truly incredible! The pizza is included with two others on a separate vegan menu that also features desserts and starters. Eat there between 4.30 and 6 and the pizzas are $15, absolute bargain. I'll be going back tomorrow :)
Updated from previous review on 2016-12-14
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Vegan menu - Edit
I have been here quite a few times now and I have to keep coming back. The fact that an Italian restaurant can make up a whole vegan menu shows that any restaurant can. (too bad they don't) My favorite is the vegan Gnocchi! But the garlic bread, pizza's and other pasta's are delicious too. Very good value for money, lovely staff, and delicious vegan food. What more do you want?
Pros: Complete vegan menu, Reasonable prices, Lovely staff
Cons: vegan menu stays the same
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great stop! traditional Italian full vegan menu available! - Edit
This place was great, good atmosphere and service even had a vegan desert
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Amazing Vegan Italian Menu - Edit
I visited Farelli's three times over the course of ten days in Queenstown and I wish I went back even more! A traditional Italian restaurant with a vegan menu?!? I couldn't believe it.
We tried almost everything on the menu, their Mediterranean pizza, the Gnocchi, the Panzerotti, and their cheesy garlic bread - it all was heavenly.
This place is a bit pricey, but it is made to a very high standard and is fine dining. If I go back to Queenstown I will go straight to Farelli's, they even had a vegan chocolate cake and mango ice cream for dessert.
5 stars for Farelli's, this place is a gem.
Pros: Entire vegan menu with incredible food, Traditional Italian cuisine, made to a high standa, So many options and each one is delicious
Cons: A little pricey, but worth it for a great meal
We really liked this place - Edit
Farellis has a lovely atmosphere. So refreshing to visit an Italian restaurant with a separate vegan menu. Over two visits we tried the margherita pizza, gnocchi, penne, panzarotti and salad. Everything was really delicious and portion size was perfect. The Vegan wine options were both nice too. Definitely visit if you're in Queenstown!
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a whole vegan menu, I'm in heaven - Edit
I ordered the gnocchi which were like little fluffy pillows of delicious. my non vegan partner had food envy and wished she'd ordered vegan too! place was very busy but service was fast and friendly. highly recommended.
Pros: a whole vegan menu, imagine having choices!
Cons: the only down side was that I didn't have room for
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lovely meal - Edit
Great place for a meal in the heart of Queenstown! They offer a seperate vegan menu which we loved including vegan wines AND dessert! Yum! Very busy so recommend booking! Highly recommend!
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Delicious Comfort Food - Edit
Great food, very friendly people, would definitely return.
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Great vegan menu - Edit
So excited to find a restaurant in Queenstown with a dedicated vegan menu. The owner told me he has a vegan friend who encouraged him to cater for vegans and boy am I glad he did! They even state they have a vegan menu on their signage on the outside of the restaurant.
The restaurant is very centrally located by the lake in a little mall of bars and other restaurants. Inside it is warm and atmospheric. The headings on the separate vegan menu include antipasto, pizza, mains and sides. They have vegan cheese (Angelfood mozzarella) for pizza and bruschetta. We ordered the sautéed zucchini with lemon, garlic, fresh mint and toasted pinenuts. The dish was beautifully presented and generous with the pine nuts. A nice light tasty starter. We also had the bruschetta with marinated vine tomato, roasted garlic and fresh herbs. Also very tasty. We shared the mains of the homemade potato gnocchi with smoky tomato sugu and roast mushrooms, panzerotti with Sicilian eggplant caponate, salted olives and caper. The panzrotti were little fried dumpling like morsels – very yummy with the sauce. My fav was the gnocchi though and I loved the smoky sauce that come with it and the mushrooms were huge and flavoursome. My only complaint to the meal was that there was no vegan dessert option. Though that might have been just as well as the portions are very generous and we were full.
I really liked Farellis and will definitely dine here again on my next Queenstown trip.
Pros: lotsof vegan options, vegan cheese, generous portions
Cons: no vegan desserts
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Vegan menu..... - Edit
A nice little Italian restaurant on the wharf at the popular Queenstown lakefront. They have a vegan menu with nice options for starters, mains & sides
Mains at around $20 were generous portion sizes and the side salads were very fresh & tasty. A great place for a cozy dinner!
Tip: Order the side of garlic bread with the AngelFood vegan 'Mozz' added to it.....delicious!
Updated from previous review on Sunday April 17, 2016
Updated from previous review on Wednesday April 20, 2016
Pros: Good range of Vegan options, Friendly staff, Good prices
Cons: Some Vegan desserts would've been great!
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