Ports
(30ml Measure)
Galway Pipe Tawny Port Australia 12 Year 12.00
Taylors Tawny Port Portugal 10 Year 15.00
Taylors Tawny Port Portugal 20 Year 20.00

Cognacs
(30ml Measure)
Hennessy VSOP 18.00
Remy Martin XO 25.00

Liqueur Coffee
Galliano, Cointreau, Baileys, Frangelico
Kahlua, Tia Maria, Grand Marnier,
Drambuie, Amaretto or Irish Whisky

Layered with semi whipped cream, and dusted with chocolate
15.00

HISTORY OF TIFFANYSRESTAURANT

Christchurch's large old houses are an important part of the city's architectural heritage. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the city's professional elite and owners of substantial sheep runs, built large elegant town houses in the favoured parts of the city. Tiffanys is a grand example of one of the few remaining 'Tudor' style houses built during this period. When Christchurch was a smaller intimate city, some of the largest homes, particularly the homes of business and professional people, were built within a few minutes walk of the city centre. Only a few homes have survived the relentless expansion of the city centre.

Tudor House (Tiffanys) stand on a historic piece of ground. Its river bank is just over the road from St Michaels's Church,one of Christchurch's finest buildings. Close by is the city's Bridge of Remembrance. Between 1852-1857 the land now occupied by TudorHouse (Tiffanys) accommodated the infant Christ's College which moved to it's present site in 1857. The site remained an ecclesiastical reserve for the next few years.

In 1907 the building of a 13 room house commenced for Dr FG Westenra who was the Registrar at Christchurch Hospital, 5 minutes walk away. The cost of the building was recorded as one thousand four hundred and ninety seven pounds. For the next few years the house was home to the Westenra family, Dr Westenra also having his private surgery in the building. After Dr Westenra's death in 1917 the family moved from the house.

Business was starting to press towards the building, with a number of small retail businesses not far away down Oxford Terrace and in the 1920's one of the city's first Service Stations opened in the vicinity. It remained nevertheless a residence for many years, it's connection with the medical or related professionals not broken until the 1970's.

In the 1960's however, the motor industry, which had first appeared in the area in the 1920's, took over the house itself. While Doctor's and Dentists kept the first floor, downstairs walls were ripped out to accommodate a car sale business. In 1971 the property was boughtby NZ Mutual Funds which prepared plans to demolish the old house, which was now looking rather shabby. Tudor House was to be replaced with a modern office block. Eventually their interests turned elsewhere and the house was left in limbo with the re-routing of Durham St and a new bridge across the Avon River.

In 1981 George Scrimshaw an Insurance Broker purchased Tudor House and resolved to 'save' the old building. The following year George transformed the building at considerable expense and with sympathy for the architectural character into it's current form. ‘Tiffanys’ as the building is affectionately known by locals became a Restaurant 27 years ago and was named after George Scrimshaw's daughter Tiffany.

In May 2010 Tiffanys celebrated 28 years as Christchurch's leading fine dining Restaurant