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New Zealand's best fine dining restaurant
Advocate the gastronomic concept from "origin to table"
It is better to use a spoonful and a fork
Savor the freshest authentic taste of nature
The Grove
Oakland
Opened in 2004, The Grove Restaurant is a fine dining restaurant in the heart of Auckland, named TripAdvisor New Zealand's 2017 Best Fine Dining Restaurant, one of TripAdvisor's 25 Best Fine Dining Restaurants in the World, and La Liste's 2017 Top 100 Restaurants in the World list.
The outside may not seem to be outstanding, but when you walk in, you will find something special - narrow restaurants, white walls on the floor, subtraction light... Typical postmodern design creates a space, a simple, understated luxury style.
The restaurant focuses on French flavors, focusing on the concept of organic, healthy and fresh ingredients in the selection of ingredients, combining fresh, high-quality seasonal ingredients from New Zealand with European cooking methods. The menu that can change at any time always brings diners a refreshing feeling.
Chef Benjamin Bayly is a former senior chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in London and France, specialising in classic French flavours with New Zealand-specific ingredients.
For the restaurant's most iconic flavours at once, choose the Degustation Menu, which offers a choice of 4 or 7 course menus, each carefully selected by the chef and paired with a glass of aromatic wine.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked No. 1.
Cuisine: French, European, New Zealand
地址：St Patricks Square, Wyndham Street, Auckland
Getting there: About a 3-minute walk from downtown Auckland.
The French Café
Oakland
Founded by husband and wife Molloy Wright and Simon Wright, The French Cafe aims to create a sophisticated dining experience with food, service and ambience.
With its culinary excellence and service, the restaurant was named one of the 25 best fine dining restaurants in the world by TripAdvisor in 2017 and the 1000 Best Restaurants in the World by La Liste in 2017.
The elegant and romantic décor makes you feel like you are in a gallery, and each dish is like a work of art, winning with "Jane" in the cooking technique, not thick and colorful, trying to maintain the most original and authentic taste of food.
The best thing to try is the restaurant's Tasting Menu, each serving is small, but it is a specialty of the restaurant, designed to allow customers to try multiple good dishes at once. As soon as you eat it, you can't help but slow down the speed of chewing, and want to imprint the taste deeply in your memory.
The bar area is full of cocktails, and in addition to dinner, a cocktail at the bar is a great place to have a drink with friends.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked second.
Cuisine: French, European, New Zealand
地址：210 Symonds St, Eden Terrace, Auckland
Transportation: About 9 minutes drive from Auckland city centre.
SidArt
Oakland
If you're visiting Ponsonby, the trendy district of Auckland, don't miss SidArt. The simple and creative restaurant design exudes a relaxed and casual atmosphere that sweeps the taste buds and visual nerves of visiting diners. From the restaurant window, you can also enjoy a view of the Sky Tower!
Chef and owner Sid Sahrawat, for his unfailing passion and creativity in making food, won the "Vittoria Coffee" Chef of the Year honor, and the restaurant was also named "Best Metropolitan Restaurant" in 2014.
Chefs are an inexhaustible source of inspiration for flavourful New Zealand ingredients, and every Tuesday night the restaurant offers an experimental culinary experience where chefs unleash their creativity and create unique and innovative dishes that delight diners.
Tired of cookie-cutter menus, do you want to see chefs making their own food up close? Every Wednesday to Saturday, the chef's table is the perfect choice.
You can see the chef's process of preparing the ingredients, communicate with him, share the freshest ingredients of the day, and even discuss how a dessert can be done well and suggest his next new dish... Surely the most special dining experience.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked third.
Cuisine: International, European, New Zealand
地址：Three Lamps Plaza, 283 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby
Transportation: About 6 minutes drive from Auckland city centre.
Hopgoods
Nelson
Located in the heart of Nelson, there is a warm, sunny bistro serving a variety of delicious bistro food – Hopgoods.
Founded in 2005 by Kevin and Jane Hopgood, the restaurant is dedicated to bringing diners a modern bistro style using seasonal ingredients as ingredients in a casual and relaxed environment.
The food here is a calm, low-key attitude, probably due in large part to the fact that the ingredients used in the restaurant are organic local farmers from Nelson.
It is worth mentioning that the restaurant uses seasonal fresh ingredients, so the dishes will often have some unexpected and novel changes, and every time you come, you may have a new surprise.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked 4th.
Cuisine: European, New Zealand, vegetarian options available
284 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, 7010
Transportation: Approximately 6 minutes walk from downtown Nelson.
One Tree Grill
Oakland
Tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, why not enjoy a delicious meal at One Tree Grill in suburban Auckland? Located in a tranquil suburb, the restaurant exudes a warm and laid-back atmosphere throughout, and once you step into the restaurant, you feel like you can stay away from the hustle and bustle, and you can relax and seriously focus on the delicious food in front of you.
The restaurant pays great attention to the selection of ingredients, regards the natural taste of food as the soul of deliciousness, skillfully integrates every detail, and explores the essence of taste art. Each dish is deceptively simple but beautiful, releasing the taste of the ingredients themselves.
In addition, the restaurant is well located for all forms of gatherings. Business banquets, friends gatherings, here are the perfect choice.
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TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant 2017 was ranked fifth.
Cuisine: Steakhouse, European, New Zealand
Address: 9 Pah Road, Epsom, Auckland
Transportation: About 13 minutes drive from Auckland city centre.
Logan Brown
Wellington
One of the must-see places in Wellington is the charming Cuba Street, a frequented by street artists and a collection of flavours from around the world.
Wellington's household name Logan Brown is sitting discreetly in an old white house on Cuba Street, one of the restaurants frequented by locals.
Established in 1996, the restaurant has taken dining to a whole new level by insisting on using traditional ingredients, award-winning and maintaining a steady level of pride.
Admire the luxurious decoration and taste the exquisite dishes, and you can't help but praise the chef's superb cooking skills.
The most ordinary ingredients also appear on the menu of the restaurant, but it is eye-catching when served on the table. As soon as you take a look, you can't help but put them in your mouth, it's really mouth-watering!
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TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant 2017 was ranked seventh.
Cuisine: European, New Zealand, Modern style
地址：192 Cuba Street, Corner of Cuba & Vivian Streets, Wellington
Transportation: It is about 10 minutes drive from Wellington city centre.
The Bunker
Queenstown
Located in the heart of Queenstown, The Bunker is easy to miss with its humble signboard and understated rustic wooden doors, which hide a cosy and romantic country restaurant and bar.
On the first floor is the restaurant, on the second floor is a bar with an outdoor terrace, dimly lit, dark wood decorations, and melodious retro music in the ears, making you feel at home.
The chef uses fresh ingredients to create delicious local cuisine without the constraints of a high-end restaurant, and the relaxed dining atmosphere is easy to relax the body and mind.
The cocktail is also well worth trying, at the end of the day, enjoy a carefully crafted classic cocktail, colorful liquid, refreshing fragrance, sweet with some astringent freshness, cool touch down the throat to the heart, sure to leave you happy.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked eighth.
Cuisine: European, New Zealand, International
Address: 14 Cow Lane, Queenstown
Transportation: About a 2-minute walk from Queenstown city centre.
The Sugar Club Auckland
Oakland
What would it be like to eat in the skies above Auckland? Before you can taste the food, the view of The Sugar Club Auckland is enough to make diners blink.
Located on the 53rd floor of the Sky Tower, the restaurant overlooks the city center at 360°, and the lights of thousands of homes in the distance, just sitting by the window, the view is the best appetizer.
Opened by New Zealand celebrity chef Peter Gordons, the menu combines Asian flavours with traditional Western cuisine, showcasing its signature blend of Eastern and Western flavours to create borderless cuisine that will make you want to linger.
If you like the presentation of Western food, you must come to appreciate their home plating art, every dish is served as if it has been carefully carved, and the camera can't stop before the mouth moves.
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2017 TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant ranked ninth.
Cuisine: Mixed, European, New Zealand
地址：Level 53, Sky Tower Corner of Federal and Victoria Streets, Auckland
Getting there: About a 3-minute walk from downtown Auckland.
Mass
Oakland
Also located in the Sky Tower, Masu specialises in Japanese cuisine that blends Eastern and Western styles, making it the perfect place to enjoy exquisite Japanese cuisine in Auckland.
Chef Nic Watt has successfully operated restaurants in London, Hong Kong, the United States and other places, clean presentation, elegant color, Nic Watt is good at extending the characteristics of food, deeply understanding the relationship between ingredients and seasons, allowing diners to find infinite surprises from pure ingredients.
The preparation method of Japanese cuisine preserves the original taste of the ingredients to the greatest extent; The fresh pairing of various seafood with other ingredients and sauces reveals the chef's whimsy.
The breakfast and brunch buffet served every Sunday is ideal for diners to enjoy fresh, well-prepared Japanese cuisine with fresh ingredients.
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TripAdvisor New Zealand's Best Fine Dining Restaurant 2017 was ranked 10th.
Food: Japanese, Sushi, Asian
地址：SKYCITY Grand Hotel 90 Federal Street, Auckland
Getting there: About a 3-minute walk from downtown Auckland.
Roots
Christchurch
There are many restaurants that specialize in healthy and delicious food, but it is rare to move a vegetable garden into a restaurant, what is fresher than instant picking? Roots, winner of 3 chef's hats at the 2017 Cuisine New Zealand Good Food Awards, is located in Christchurch and is a small shop that promotes the concept of green and healthy eating.
Roots has an open kitchen and two dining rooms with a beautiful vegetable garden. Modern people's desire to return to nature is also one of the selling points here.
Foodies from all over the world will be surprised to find that the restaurant menu can be different every night. The ingredients are sourced from local farms, and some from the restaurant's own vegetable garden. Freshly harvested ingredients go straight into the kitchen and become delicious dishes on the table.
In the restaurant kitchen, all ingredients are cherished one by one. You can choose a 5-course or 8-course set menu, and the natural taste speaks for itself; If you're confident in your appetite, order a 12-course set menu and the chef uses clever cooking techniques to perfectly balance the ingredients, so that you can satisfy your appetite without feeling guilty.
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Cuisine: New Zealand, International, Vegetarian options available
Address: 8 London Street, Lyttelton
Transportation: About 20 minutes drive from Christchurch city centre.
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