We had an excellent dinner here this evening: house made chorizo, beef empanadas, arepas, and slow…read morecooked beef. Very nice beer list as well

Four of us went for dinner on a Friday night. Atmosphere was a little quiet but picked up as the…read morenight went on. Service was good, very fast and attentive staff Nice variety of Colombian cuisine I would go back but you need to be on the right mood.

Great Korean BBQ experience! I liked how the place was clean, tidy, and spacious. We went on a…read moreFriday night at 6pm and we're lucky enough to get parking. The meat selections weren't as large as other Korean BBQ places, but was decent enough for a satisfying meal. The side dishes (all you can eat!!!) were amazing - definitely better than other places. Overall, we enjoyed the whole experience :) Definitely worth the $25 per person!!

My better half mentioned that her colleagues raved about this restaurant a fair bit for after-work…read moredo's...but I was less than impressed. Somehow the missus managed to convince me to give it a go with a 3-course dinner voucher and I couldn't say no! Firstly, the menu - it left me a bit bamboozled as to How can a bar and grill have Chicken Masala with Roti?? It's just unfair to the Indian cuisine! Then the serving size - I felt short changed when it came to just 4 prawns with a runny sauce and some salad leaves - $16! See picture - the taste was alright and the prawns were cooked well - but flavours lacked punch. I hoped the oven roasted Salmon fillet with risotto would revive their dwindling reputation but again - lack of seasoning and a thin strip of salmon with a soggy skin failed to excite - $28.50! By now our hopes for an epic dessert were shattered and we picked the simplest of options for our sweet tooth - what was presented was again something I could probably cook up in my sleep - not thy there was any cooking involved but at $10.50 a pop - the lemon curd and kiwi fruit tart was straight out of the countdown cold dessert aisle with plain jane tip top vanilla ice cream scoops on top some slices of oranges n kiwi fruit and a few grapes with strawberry syrup in a floral pattern - DO NOT A DESSERT MAKE! I fail to understand how restaurants can get away with pricing like this - I think we were served smaller than usual portions as well owing to the voucher. Rest assured - the Takapuna branch of Buffalo Bar n Grill left nothing more to write about. The pictures will speak for themselves. Avoid.

Went here for the ribs experience (given the name) and left after the first plate came out, cramped…read moreinternal dining, staff were inattentive .. all can be forgiven for good food though, sadly this was not the case, ribs were underdone with barely any meat, the flavour was awful, and we vowed never to come back. Highly recommend you give this place a wide detour. For ribs on the North Shore try "deep creek" or "bushmans grill", for good general dining "the Patio" is nearby.

On a sunny but cold Sunday I met up with other yelpers to try out Fortieth and Hurstmere in…read moreTakapuna , what a great space .I'm sure when it's filled with eateries it will be a place to go . I imagine live music there and drinks flowing . I'd been wanting to try Bird on a Wire for a while now , after looking online at their menu I decided to go for the chicken Bahn mie and beer battered chips . The Bahn mie was great everything I imagined it to be with a rich pate and crunchy carrot and lots of coriander,however it was the chips that I liked the most . So crunchy with that fluffy potato inside and just the right amount of seasoning . A awesome place for groups and families.

Kombi Coffee and El Humero have joined Bird on a Wire and Dante's Pizza. Great venue, and…read morereasonably priced dining in Takapuna.

A casual, all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. Oh, but it's more than that! You can put together your…read moreown delicious mongolian dishes, adding whatever sauces, veggies, meats and salads you so desire. Then watch them toss it over the fire pit! It's seriously exciting! And then they have lovely ice cream and pancakes for dessert. Well, you can imagine how I rolled out the door of this place - never eaten so much in my life! Just goes to show this is really tasty food and an all round good experience. Watch your plates pile high, your food cook and laugh with your friends as you enjoy a competition of who can eat the most plates of food. Just be careful the chefs don't give your masterpiece to someone else - it's hard to keep up with who's who on a busy night!

All you can eat!!!!! Can you beat that? Certainly not when the food is good, affordable and you…read morehave a few mouths to feed! At Gengy's you grab your dish and heard around the obstacle course popping whatever you want into your bowl. There's meats, salads, sauces, oils, spices galore. Then you take this over to the awesome 'cooking pit' where someone slaps all your selections onto a hot plate and cooks it for you. This is an opportunity to see how good of a chef you would be. Personally I found it took me a few times to get the hang of it. My first few plates were such a mish mash of flavours it was hard to know what was going on. After you have stuffed yourself to the brim with mains there is desert. Pancakes and ice cream and chocolatey sauces. And again... all you can eat!! Wear your elastic pants and go with an empty stomach!

Whoa, Gangnam Style, the restaurant. Good on them for capitalizing on the popularity of their…read morecountryman, but they may need to change their name in a few months when he fades into oblivion. I also think they need to proofread their promotional materials which say "enjoy infinite new concept is self-buffet" hmm. Still $12 for lunch or $23 for dinner, all you can cook/eat, and a funny name, is a pretty good bargain. I have seen a lot of people going in here who look to me to be Korean, so I take that as a sign of authenticity and reasonable quality.

Huge selection of meats and side dishes that you cook at your table. Excellent value!! They even…read morehave ice cream which was delicious!!

Proudly a Metro cheap eats restaurant- this is a great value, yum Korean restaurant. Catering both…read moreto do-your-own BBQ or simply out-of-the-kitchen Korean dishes, which is what we did. Doesn't seem so large from the entrance but it actually goes in quite deep with their brick walls and maze of pipes along ceiling to extract steam and BBQ smells as you cook. Many partitioned areas by miniature, rice-paper windowed old-Korean 'house walls' on either sides of the wooden tables. It is self serve tea and water- which is found halfway in their restaurant- so don't forget to pick some up. They have a large plate of side dishes to nibble on before your mains or with your mains, if there is any left (yum). A big fan of the sweet potato, but there was also spice courgette, broccoli and thin pieced tofu. We all ordered different dishes- if you feel like seafood, I'd recommend their Hot and spicy fish roe soup. It definitely was hot- so be prepared for blowing on the soup. Was jam packed in a large black stone bowl with mung bean, mussel, courgette and fish roe- which I learned was an interesting looking though yum-enough sac of fish eggs. The Dolsot arrived in a sizzling stone pot and is a bibimbap made up of steamed rice mixed with various eggs and vegetables. Also got the Yook Gae Jang which was beef and vege in hot and spicy soup. All of it was delicious and definitely filling. They take reservations if you're worried or have quite a group. The staff are super friendly and the food is good as well as affordable- what's not to love.

It is a little bit difficult to find out the place ,But the food is good. Less oil, less calories.read more

We came here as my other half's work was having thier Xmas lunch here. There was so many of us…read morethat we took up the majority of the tables in the restaurant. Bad aspect of this was that they ran short of plates actually sitting out by the buffet for you to take for your food so you had to ask eventually when you needed one. Good thing about it being so busy was that they cleared the tables of any dirty plates very quickly, but not return so fast... The selection of food to choose from was really good , both cold and already cooked,and though plates could be lacking there was always ample food to choose from when you went up for 2nd's or 3rd's...etc.. A couple of grills , as there is, per table is good enough for a full table of people The atmosphere is good within ,plenty of parking outside and it is kid friendly if you have them. Amongst all the Korean BBQ places i have been into in Auckland i would reccomend this one first. There may be better out there, just i have not been to them yet. Enjoy!!