There’s no doubt about it that Auckland has some amazing restaurants but it’s come to that time of year when the best of the best are picked out and given their just desserts in Metro magazine. Here are the ones that made the menu on the Metro Audi Best Restaurant of the Year Top 50.
Supreme Winner The Grove
Formal Restaurant The Grove
Runner-Up The French Café
Smart Casual Cibo
Runner-Up O’Connell St Bistro
Hotel Dining Dine by Peter Gordan
Runner-Up Mollies
Local Bistro The Engine Room
Runner-Up Two Fifteen
Bar Bistro Winehot
Runner-Up Coco’s Cantina
Asian Soto
Runner-Up Grand Harbour
Italian Toto
Rural Te Whau
Best Value for Money La Cigale
Best New Restaurant Sidart
Best Service Cable Bay
Best Dish Venison with preserved cherries, cocoa mille-feuille, black pudding and licorice, at Clooney
Best Wine List Clooney
Best Short Wine List Prime Bistro
Restaurant Personality of the Year:
Gen Ogata, Sake Bar 601
Other finalists:
Asian Bar Bistro
Java Room Tabou
Kura Ella
Monsoon Poon Mondial
Sake Bar 601 Pastis
Satya Great North Road SPQR
Teppan Dining Bowz
Formal Italian
Antoines Delicious
Merediths Non Solo Pizza
Number 5 Prego
Vinnies Toto
Hotel Dining Hotel
Q Restaurant White
Local Bistro Smart Casual
Eight.Two Euro
Molten One Tree Grill
Pure Ponsonby Rd Bistro
Two Fifteen Rocco
Soul Bar & Bistro
Rural Wine Chambers
Casita Miro The Mulberry
