The Pakuranga Night Market is the newest addition to the Auckland Night Market roster, operating on Friday nights from the Hunters Plaza carpark. Whilst there's lots of the same stalls at all three markets, I didn't enjoy this one as much as the others, and that's purely because of its location: pushed into a far corner of the carpark, on humid summer nights it's pretty tough going there without any ventilation, natural light or through breeze! It would be great to lose some of the carparks and move the whole market over towards the entrance so that at least some air can circulate.
Saying that, the food is good, as you'd expect, and the night I went there was a cover band playing mostly blues tunes, which was a good addition to the experience. read more