Kia Orana We have REOPENED – Hours July 2020
DINNER from 5:30pm daily except Wednesday, Thursday.Lunch from 11:30 am Friday only Stop in for a cocktail or dessert, enjoy the sunshine by day and sunset We are looking forward to welcoming you to enjoy our food and friendly hospitality. Please call 26487 for bookings
Closed, Please Come Back Later
Hope to return in June 2020, Meitaki Maata, Thank you for your patience and we hope you will join us then. We miss you!
The happy chef from Mangaia
Married to renowned Cook Islands ‘foodie’ and cookbook author Sue Carruthers Brown, Robbie Brown is a humble and proud Mangaian-born man; he is also head chef at Rarotonga’s definitive five-star restaurant, Tamarind House. Born on one of the world’s most ancient islands, Mangaia, Robbie Brown, who turns 60 in 2019, arrived on Rarotonga when he […]
Sue Carruthers, one of the most celebrated ‘foodies’ in the Cook Islands
Iconic colonial residence, now well-known restaurant Tamarind House, is the indisputable natural habitat for foodie, chef, restaurateur, author and world-traveller, Sue Carruthers. Tamarind House, Cook IslandsFronted by lawns reaching out to the coral covered waterfront at Tupapa, Tamarind House was built a hundred years ago as a home for the management of the Union Steamship […]
From the school of experience…
Robert Brown just smiles when asked why he and partner Sue Carruthers, seemingly content to enjoy a life of semi-retirement after several years in the restaurant business, would even think about stepping back into the kitchen on a full-time basis. “I guess it’s in our blood,” he says. Brown and Carruthers own and operate Tamarind […]
