JOUST IS OUST!!! That is how my review will start unfortunately. Little to be desired to be quite honest. I would rather go to Valentines for a smorgasbord meal and i don't rate Valentines as being that good either! Utterly disappointing. For a small town like Orewa, you need to impress people come on!! My husband took me to Joust for my birthday on 29 Dec 2011. We will not be going back. They didn't name their food so you didn't know what the hell you were eating from the limited selection. The green salad looked like yesterdays tossed, so it looked alot fresher. The dessert bar, OMG, little Christmas mince pies that were obviously purchased from Countdown and then cut in half to make it look like they had more. Crap restaurant, crap food, and oh, the seaviews were minimal as the main front windows of the cafe were covered in so much sea salt you couldn't see out plus it was a rainy, wet day also. Word of warning, don't go their if its pouring down with rain. They lock the main front doors on the street front with a hand written sign saying " use rear entrance" but where was the rear entrance after standing in the pouring rain to find it and when we did, the door was shut closed so we were drenched by the time they saw us to open it. We had to call through the window to someone to open the door.