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Ancestral

Ancestral is a Chinese restaurant at 35 Riccarton Road, Riccarton, Christchurch.

Checked 16 Oct 2026

35 Riccarton Road

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Nearest bus stop
143 m
Restaurants in the suburb
89

Getting there

Bus stop, Riccarton Rd near Bartlett St 143 m · Routes 3, 5, 80, 86, 130 · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Riccarton Rd near Bartlett St 153 m · Routes 3, 5, 80, 86, 130 · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Riccarton Rd near Harakeke St 257 m · Routes 3, 5, 80, 86, 130, 140 · ECan bus stops
Shared path Passes the door · in service · Council cycleway layer
The street, Riccarton Road Reports, crashes and the rest of the record along it Directions → Walking, cycling and driving routes, on Google Maps Street View → The kerb as Google photographed it: worth a look before a first visit

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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.

Nearby

Environment Canterbury’s Canterbury Maps Parks layer, refreshed 2026-10-10. Distances are straight-line from the business pin, not walking routes.

The nearest other restaurants

All 89 restaurants in Riccarton → · Every one in the city →

Also in Riccarton

Every kind of business in Riccarton →

What the record holds

Every fact with the source that states it, Riccarton (the suburb’s page) · record assembled 16 Oct 2026
FactWhat the source saysSource
Address35 Riccarton Road, Christchurch 8011OpenStreetMap
KindRestaurants, ChineseOpenStreetMap
NZBN9429034906507, NZ Limited Company, removedNZBN register
Registered nameANCESTRAL LIMITEDNZBN register
Registered since3 Mar 2005NZBN register
Food registrationreg CCC000938/1, Template FCP, verified by CCC, expires 12 Apr 2027MPI food register

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The ground it stands on

Facts about the spot the pin marks, the land, not the business. A consent may belong to the building, the landlord or a neighbour
FactWhat the source saysSource
District Plan zoneMixed use zoneDistrict Plan

What stood on this ground → · Documents that name it →

What stood on Riccarton Road

Riccarton Road, Christchurch
1900, Riccarton Road, Christchurch

From Canterbury Stories. This photograph names the street, not this business. The street page pairs it with a Street View pose verified outside ANZ, 2025-02. The street’s then and now →

The reports nearby

1,089 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 890 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

The 1,089 reports on file
Dumped Rubbish 74 Brockworth Pl · 11 October 2026
Dumped Rubbish 3 Darvel St · 9 October 2026
General Request 32 Riccarton Rd · 5 October 2026
General Request 62 Riccarton Rd · 5 October 2026
Overgrown Vegetation Canterbury · 28 September 2026
Water Leak 13 Bartlett Street, Riccarton · 19 September 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Mandeville Reserve 57 Riccarton Road, Riccarton · 15 September 2026
Water Leak 67 Brockworth Place, Riccarton · 12 September 2026
Water General 69 Brockworth Pl · 10 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Ancestral?

A Chinese restaurant in Riccarton, Christchurch.

Where is Ancestral?

35 Riccarton Road, Riccarton, on Riccarton Road. On the map →

Is Ancestral still trading?

On OpenStreetMap.

What other restaurants are near Ancestral?

Fumetan Ramen (17 m), Great Wall Restaurant (20 m), Mukbang (21 m), every one in the city.

What’s near Ancestral?

the address’s own record holds 45 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Fumetan Ramen (17 m); the Riccarton Rd near Bartlett St bus stop is 143 m away: routes 3, 5, 80, 86, 130; a shared path passes the door; nearest park: Mandeville Reserve (170 m).

What stood where Ancestral is, before?

The heritage-register places nearest the pin →

The record behind this

This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/ancestral-riccarton.md.