Husband took me there for my birthday. EVERYTHING was PERFECT. The food, the service, the view. Expensive but worth it.

Loved it so much, I’d like to go there every year for my midwinter birthday lunch. A very special place, and they definitely know how to make beautiful food that tastes superb.

You’d think Martin Bosley’s would be pretentious given its reputation. But it is very relaxed, and the staff are welcoming and totally unpretentious. Last time I was there, Mr Bosley himself was even helping to deliver meals to his customers (they weren’t that busy so I think he was just doing it for fun rather than out of necessity).

The degustation menu is very enjoyable – one of the awesome things is that they have 2 dishes for almost all courses: so that you and the person you dine with get something different to one another… and you can experience double the number of dishes! The wine matching was really interesting too – a fantastic way to explore how different wines taste with food.

It’s worth saving up your pennies so you can go the whole hog.

Sorry this has taken so long to put up but we first visited Martin Bosleys Feb 2010! Everything was beautiful. We went for our anniversary and the ambience, service, food, wine and even getting to meet the big man himself made it for a perfect night. Thank you to all the staff, we will definately be returning very soon.

Three of us went and we all chose the the degustation menu with matching wines. Each course had a theme but each of us had a different dish (e.g. for the meat course my partner had duck, I had venison and my cousin had beef) which made discussing the flavours difficult.

Food was excellent, service excellent and wine matching great.

Second only to The French Cafe (in Auckland) degustation menu. If you like one of these you must try the other…

A top restaurant!

This has to be the disappointment of the year… I had looked forward to going there for a long time, and had tried a number of times to get a reservation, without success. I was expecting something special, and got average.

I decided on scallops for entree, only to find they had run out! And this was fairly early on a Saturday evening. I asked what the vegetables of the day were and the waitress didn’t know… They turned out to be fairly average mushrooms, boring carrots, and undercooked, hard broccolini… all this from what is supposed to be one of Wellington’s top restaurants?

The Kingfish however was lovely. I passed on desert and coffee, deciding it wasn’t worth the money.

Overall: wickedly overpriced, would have been better off in any number of other places around town, for half the cost. I won’t be back.

Sensational in a very literal sense of the word. Whimsical as well in terms of unusual taste sensations. Who would have thought of putting ground porcino mushrooms with chocolate? Parsley icecream? Hot and cold soup (yes it’s true!) The degustation menu gives an idea of much of the rest of the menu, and can be matched with wine also. We found the wine and food matches didn’t quite have the synergy we were expecting, but it’s all good adventurous dining anyway. Most of us would need to save up to come here. It might be cheerful, but definitely not cheap!