Ki Māha Restaurant Waiheke Island

Rating: 3

We ate lunch here in May 2026.

Goat cheese fritters
Duck croquettes
Olive flatbread

ki maha has lovely staff. We made Ki Maha home for a couple of hours, sipping cocktails and nibbling snacks, straddling the lunch to dinner shifts which meant we had two servers. Both were attentive, but not hovery, friendly but not overbearing, and decidedly chill.

All the food was delish, although what is the definition of a fritter? This was a fried ball of goats cheese and decidedly less flat than we were anticipating. They were also $8 each for a golf ball size, which is pretty steep. But hot damn was it good. Paired with a spicy honey we were absolutely loving it. We were also loving the flatbread which was insanely flavourful, hot, crispy, and just the right amount of oily. The least strong was the duck croquettes, which were perfectly good but didn’t blow us away.