With next Saturday’s opening of opulent, Chinese-inspired restaurant, Billy’s, based around a restored homestead, Queenstown’s Ayrburn hospitality precinct’s complete.

Named after farmer William Paterson, who lived with his wife Bessie in the homestead in the late 1800s, Billy’s uses five original rooms for dining, supplemented by a large central bar and kitchen.

It also has an attached ‘orangery’, or glass conservatory, which seats another 50 to 60 diners amid lime and lemon trees.