Eating Auckland

The guide every Auckland food lover needs. Over 475 places worth your time (and appetite).

Finding a great place to eat can be confusing. Google gives you hundreds of options. Review sites reward popularity over quality. Social media is full of sponsored posts and influencer hype.

Eating Auckland is different.

In a world of endless scrolling, we wanted to create something you could throw in the car, dog-ear, spill coffee on and keep coming back to.

We did the legwork, ate the meals, explored the neighbourhoods and found the places we'd genuinely recommend to our own friends and family. The result is a beautifully curated printed guide to Auckland's food scene - the places worth knowing about right now, and the ones you'll want to return to again and again.

And we didn't do it alone. The Lazy Sunday Club community has always been our secret weapon - a passionate bunch of over 42,000 Auckland food lovers who share discoveries, debate favourites and know where the good stuff is. Your recommendations, tips and opinions help shape what we explore because you are our eyes and ears on the ground too.

Inside these pages, you'll discover everything from destination restaurants and neighbourhood cafes to brilliant bakeries, bars, sandwich shops, craft breweries, markets, legendary pies and ice cream worth crossing town for. Not every last dining venue in Auckland - just the ones we think are truly worth your time.

What makes Eating Auckland special is that it's more than a restaurant guide. It's an insider's guide to eating your way around the city. Organised by neighbourhood, it's designed to help you explore one delicious corner of Auckland at a time, whether you're planning a weekend in Ponsonby, heading across the harbour, or looking for somewhere new close to home.

We've also invited some of Auckland's best-known chefs, food writers and hospitality personalities to share where they love to eat. Their favourite local cafes. The bakery they can't resist. The restaurant they recommend to visiting friends. The neighbourhood gem they'd rather keep secret.

Whether you're an Auckland local looking to fall back in love with your city, a visitor wanting an instant heads-up, or simply someone who gets excited about discovering a great little place tucked down a side street, Eating Auckland belongs in your bag, reading pile or glovebox. Best of all, this is just the beginning. Eating Auckland will be updated every year, keeping pace with the country's most exciting and fast-changing food city. New openings, old favourites, neighbourhood discoveries and fresh recommendations - all carefully curated, all independently chosen.

There's nothing else quite like it.

Just great food. Great places. And the city we love, one bite at a time.