New Regent Street Precinct

Cute street with many restaurants to eat from. Quite picturesque when the tram comes through this area. Overall lot to do and close proximity to get around different local areas of Christchurch.

Very cool. Love the range of eateries and the lights at night.

A street that is right out of Hollywood movies. There are many cute and cozy Cafe's in the area and the Tram passes right through the street. Very Instagrammable location!!

I loved it here... It made me feel as though we were in a different country. Very nice shops and it even had the tram running through which was pretty awesome

The site now covered by New Regent Street and its terraced shops was once the location of the Colosseum, a building designed by Thomas Cane and erected in 1888. This building was first an ice skating rink, then a boot factory, taxi rank and finally, in 1908, Christchurch's first picture theatre.nnBuilt as a private development in the early 1930s with 40 shops in Spanish Mission architectural style, it is one of the city's major tourist attractions.nnOne of the few streets not seriously damaged in the 2011 mega earthquake.nnThese two rows of shop houses give a quaint oldy worldly feel enhanced by the vintage trams passing through on a regular basis. The street is now full of cafes and restaurants which charge tourist pricesnLook out for the early 20th century tiles on all the shop walls.