The Butter Factory is a restaurant at 8 Butter Factory Lane, Whangārei. The venue's own website could not be read for this overview, so the details below are limited to what is publicly verifiable.
Butter Factory Lane takes its name from a heritage building nearby. Heritage New Zealand lists the Former Butter Factory at 84-88 Bank Street, which has a second frontage on Butter Factory Lane, as a Category 2 Historic Place (entered on the List in 2015). The building dates from 1905, when it housed a butter factory on the ground floor with furniture manufacturing and retail above. Butter production there had ceased by 1907. A 1936 extension added tearooms and a bakery, and the building later housed Whangārei's first nightclub, a carpet warehouse, and in 2014 a wine bar, café and youth theatre rehearsal space. We have not confirmed that the restaurant occupies the whole of this building, and Heritage New Zealand lists the building as having no public access.
The restaurant has a published phone number of +64 22 509 3594. It has no on-site accommodation. Menu, private dining, function capability and capacity could not be verified from the sources available, so anyone planning a group booking or event should contact the venue directly.
The venue is in central Whangārei, off Bank Street. See more Whangārei venues.
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