It’s BYO pyjamas at this chef’s table above the clouds

This remote New Zealand culinary adventure combines fine dining, extreme views and a cabin to lay your head.

Blue Duck Station’s restaurant and cabins offer 360-degree views ringed by soaring mountain tops.

Ute JunkerTravel writer

Apr 17, 2025 – 5.00am

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It may seem an odd time to be regretting childhood choices, but having arrived at Blue Duck Station, home to what may be New Zealand’s most remote fine-dining restaurant, I’m suddenly wishing I’d taken riding lessons when I was young.

Blame the station staffer who just mentioned that some diners get to The Chef’s Table, the restaurant sitting on one of the highest points of Blue Duck Station, via two-day horseback trek.