Croque Me — Local services in Waitākere Ranges

I was really looking forward to dine in this restaurant as people said the food are so good. But before I can order my food. My good appetite was ruined by the lady's rudeness.

At 7:00 pm, my friend and I go into the restaurant. After we order drinks, we were imagining how it would be taste like of every dish on the Manu. The lady came to us and I was ready to order.

I ordered the scallop for entree, then I moving to the main Manu. I ask about how big the main is, thinking about if the main was big then maybe I will just skip the desert. However she immediately told me that we can't share food. Am I saying anything about sharing? Clearly not! She told me that the reason of not allow sharing is they will be closed if one person only spending 29 dollar in their restaurant, and she told me that we can leave if we don't want to pay so much money. Besides, maybe because of my Asian look, she keep asking me if I understand what she said.

When she said we can't share food, I just simply told her that in Auckland people can share courses. She looks like being offended and said here is not Auckland! I said I know I was not in auckland, but there isn't any note about can't sharing food in their restaurant( if she took it so seriously, she should put one). She said that is because everybody knows it! Excuse me? Am I not everybody? Anyway, that was outrageous when she told me that we can leave and have cheaper dinner outside if we don't want to spend too much money. Really? If I didn't want to spend money, I would just stay at home for this long weekend.

So I left and paid our drinks even I can't enjoy it anymore. One cosmopolitan, one pineapple juicy and one bottle of water. That's all we had in that restaurant. Cost us good appetite and $29.

Maybe they are good at cooking good food, but definitely bad on...

This is the first time I have tried food set menus / degustation by high class chef. I guess it boils down to how much you may and what you expect. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Reservations are a must.

The set course changes often. I started with the home made bread and butter and this was nice. With a mix of honey this felt different.

Then came the entrees and I can’t remember their names but the soup was nice. The main was rib eye steak if I remember correctly. The dessert was stewed apple with chocolate n honey crumble I think. Apologies I can’t. Remember the menu exactly. I didn’t take the wine pairing but did have drinks. The total bill was 111$ for person.. I find that to be quite expensive. I would have expected to for it to b under 100$. If I remember correctly it was 80$ for a 3 course meal with no wine pairing and 120$ with wine pairing.

The ambience was nice and so were the staff.

Anyways this is a one off experience and provided you have a big budget especially if you are with family.. special occasions I would say.. the reason for 3 stars is due to the cost. Otherwise the food is definitely 4 - 4.5...

We are locals and recently dined here for the first time. Limited menu but several options that sounded really nice, and it was nice to have a vegetarian main option that wasnt a gnocchi or lasagne! The food was excellent - the maple butter and home baked bread were an interesting but delicious combo, and I loved the hazelnut bubble dessert. Unfortunately the service let them down a bit. We arrived quite hungry but didn't manage to put our order in till we had been there for at least 30 minutes (despite the waitress saying she would be back soon to take our order), and didn't get our first bit of food (the bread) till we had been there an hour. Our waitress was wearing activewear which seemed a bit bizarre and incongruent with the quality of the food served. The decor could do with being updated as it's still in the rustic mid-2000s style that Mint (the restaurant previously in this building) had. Overall we left very happy though and would...