Best Hidden Gems in New Zealand: 6 Picks in Auckland

Food tour in Auckland

Auckland Food Walk Tour: 5 Tastings, Hidden Lanes & Legends

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All 6 hidden gems

Ranked by our editors.

Forest is Plabita Florence's 30-seat vegetarian tasting room on Dominion Road, Auckland.

Bar Magda is a basement Filipino wine bar off Cross Street, Auckland; Cuisine-hat-listed three years running, 30 seats.

Caretaker on Customs Street East is Auckland's most-loved basement cocktail room.

Cazador on Dominion Road in Mount Eden, Auckland is the Wright family's game-led restaurant with a connected deli.

Sly is a genuine K Road speakeasy in Auckland behind an unmarked door at 354A Karangahape Road.

Bestie sits inside St Kevins Arcade off Karangahape Road in Auckland.