Engine Room

Auckland


One of Auckland’s best restaurants, this informal eatery serves up lighter-than-air goats'-cheese soufflés, inventive mains and oh-my-God chocolate truffles. It’s worth booking ahead and catching the ferry to Northcote Point; the restaurant is a further 1km Uber or walk away.


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