Whether you’re after a quick coffee, fresh seafood, or a proper sit-down dinner, the towns around Kalaru Holiday Village have a decent spread of dining options between them.
For breakfast and coffee, seaside cafés in Tathra and Merimbula both cover the basics well — good coffee and straightforward breakfast menus, with a coastal outlook that makes even a quick stop feel worthwhile.
Given the region’s fishing industry, fresh seafood is a genuine highlight here — local restaurants in Merimbula and Tathra regularly serve catch from the area, and it’s worth prioritising this if you’re after something the region does particularly well rather than settling for the same meal you’d get anywhere.
For dinner more broadly, family restaurants and local pubs across the three towns cover the everyday options, while a handful of local wineries in the Bega Valley offer something a bit more special if you’re staying long enough to make the trip worthwhile.
If you’re travelling with a larger group, it’s worth booking ahead during peak holiday periods, since the more popular seafood restaurants can fill up quickly when the coast gets busier over summer.
For anyone staying longer term for work in the Bega Valley, Bega itself has a reasonable everyday dining scene beyond what the coastal towns offer, worth knowing about if you want variety across a longer stay rather than eating the same coastal options repeatedly.
The takeaway: the Sapphire Coast’s seafood is genuinely worth prioritising, with seaside cafés and local wineries rounding out the options across Bega, Tathra and Merimbula.
If you’re not sure where to start, asking locally about what’s fresh that day tends to be more useful than picking a restaurant by name alone — the catch varies day to day, and the better places will happily tell you what’s just come in rather than sticking to a fixed menu regardless of season.