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Facilities/Features:
- Business Dining
- Children's Menu
- Out Catering
- Private Dining Room
- Private Functions
- Payment Types: EFTPOS, Visa, MasterCard, AMEX, Diners
- Price Range: Moderate, $15 - $25
- Dress Code: Smart casual
- Alcohol: Beer, Wine, Spirits, Cocktails
- Seating for: 120
- BYO/Corkage: No BYO
- Good For Groups: Yes
- Good For Children: Yes
- Takeaways: Yes
- Delivers: No
- Dietary Restrictions: Vegetarian, Vegan, Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Soy-free
- Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
- Outdoor Seating: No
- Meals: Lunch, Dinner, Late Night, Dessert
- Wi-Fi: None
Monsoon Poon is a South East Asian Restaurant and Bar, offering food from Thailand, Malaysia, India, China and Indonesia. An open kitchen gives diners the opportunity to watch Chefs at work.
The decor is pan-asian, stylish, and comfortable. The lovely bar area offers an impressive range of wine and spirits, with fantastic cocktails and a ‘Lucky Hour’ every day 4-6 where the cocktail of the week is only $6.
Menu specials include our Winter Lunch Sets served in a Tiffen and the famous ‘Firecracker Club’ first Monday of each month. Service is friendly and knowledgeable with a focus on ‘de-mystifying’ the menu.
Reservations can be made for Lunch… However for dinner, simply walk in without a booking and our Maitre d’ will hunt out a table for you (you might need to enjoy some time in our lovely bar area on a busy night)… but you’ll love it… that just how we roll at Monsoon Poon!
51 Reviews for Monsoon Poon Restaurant
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i will go there AGAIN
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Restaurant is rather crowded and badly set-out and music is very noisy!!!!!! We need to literally yell to each other for normal talking. I don’t know why they put music so loud!
The wooden seats are uncomfortable if you are there for bit long time.
Cost is on the average side for Auckland and the food is value for money considering the quality and presentation.
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The décor was great and mood-lighting nice, it’s a really interesting venue – plenty to look at.
Our waiter was excellent – just the right mix of helpful chat, and he was very attentive whilst in no way intrusive. Excellent. He also suggested a fabulous Spy Valley pinot gris.
As for the food – we all loved it. Stand-out dishes for me included the fat little rice-paper Vietnamese rolls on the combo platter, the moistly-done squid, and the ‘shaking beef’ which was truly outstanding. The dish ‘Shaking Beef’ was SO light and juicy and tender to the bite (made with eye-fillet steak, they said).
Plus I loved the roti… and the flavoursome leafy goodness of the duck salad.
Stuffed ourselves silly, and yet had left-overs to take-out.
Have been wanting to come here to dine for years, glad we picked it today, and turned ourselves into a bunch of Monsoon Poon converts.
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Lovely interesting atmosphere where you can continuously keep gazing at the scenery while you drink your Tiger beer
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Drinks were great and the menu for these inventive and well priced.
Had a problem with one of the dishes having something extra in the food which was not discovered until the final mouthful, we were offered another drink as compensation however felt seeing this was not taken up that it would have been a nice gesture to see this reflected in the account. Possibly forget the charge on the rice!
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Size of dishes is more than adequate for most people, but having to order rice etc as an extra is unusual. There is a good selection of rices, this is likely the reason for ordering seperately and the coconut rice is my favourite.
Restaurant is rather crowded and badly set-out and very noisy. The wooden seats are a bit uncomfortable if you are there for a while.
Service is very dependant on who you get as one visit the waitress was fantastic and the next time not so flash
Cost is on the average side for Auckland and the food is value for money considering the quality and presentation.
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The staff were very friendly, I enjoyed the decor too.
Looking forward to next visit
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The major issue, which put me off was the food. Being a chef myself, I reckon the food was not of that good quality. The Thai curries was very thin, could have been cooked a bit longer. The Indian spicy curry was extremly spicy, just heaps of chilly powder thrown in the end. Some of the chicken we ate was not even cooked thoroughly. Overall, very disappointed with the quality of the food. Myself being trained in Asian cuisine and also being an Asian, the food at the restaurant is making a bad impression.
Lots of room for improvement.
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Thanks for a great night
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Service was below average, they kept the evening stalled by taking so long to get drinks and not checking on the table to see if we needed more – which we did.
I don’t understand why the music is so insanely loud – its like dining in a nightclub, some background music is fine but it was impossible to hear the waitress when she rarely stopped at our table.
We all had to dance around to get some attention at the end of dinner to get the cheque….even though the restaurant was almost empty.
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The service is really assured – the staff seem to know exactly how to fit in with the mood of your group and they enhance the experience really well. Oh…and make sure you have a pitcher of Tiger beer for the table…sensational.
The way you can mix up your dishes from a range of regions is great – really recommend the firecracker chicken, beef rendang and the roti breads are just exceptional. Great fun for a night out with friends.
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YUM!
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Recommend going with a group friends and sharing a few of the dishes.
Service is always good, keep it up guys and we’ll keep coming back!
6
We were celebrating a friends’ pregnancy so we wanted a cake with candles but the kitchen was already closed, but suddenly we got a cake full of candles, good surprise, thank you!
PROS: Food is great-a mix of all South East Asian cuisines. Not all authentic for an Asian palate but suited to the mainly European clientele.
Fabulous decor and atmosphere. We didn’t find the music intrusive at all and we are on the wrong side of 50. Service incredible – fast, friendly and helpful. Waitress was faultless. She also brought a candle so that we could see the menu (see Cons). Can see into the kitchen from some tables which we liked.
CONS: You can’t book after 5pm. A real pain if you have guests with you and have to wait. It’s very expensive for what you get. The Shaking Beef was fabulous, but only 8 small cubes of beef for $22!! Extra $ for rice and condiments. The bill for four was over $200 for 4 entrees and 3 mains, no dessert, and the males were still hungry. It’s VERY DARK! Hence the request for a candle. The twenty somethings may not have a problem but the over forty’s like to eat too! Ask for a table near one of the few decorative lights. Would frequent a lot if portions/or prices adjusted and we could book. Would also take a torch.
3
The food is always top quality and the service is the best in Auckland. The price is very reasonable. I also like the décor, the open kitchen and love the music as well.
Favourite dishes: Crab Cups, Duck Curry and the plain Nan – I am hungry just thinking about it!
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I love the selection of drinks, especially the cute names that come with them. Yummy cocktails!
Just make sure you make reservations on weekends!
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There is an extensive selection of wine and the service we have received is top notch.
Not a place you want to go if you are in a rush, best to sit back and enjoy the evening.
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We ordered an entre, 2 cocktails and 2 meals. It came to over $70.
The price’s average for a highly recommended restaurant near Viaduct. But we were very pleased with the quality, quantity of food and the service.
They’ve used what small space they had to their great advantage, and decorated the interior very nicely.
The waitress offered to take photos for us, and serviced with a smile and great attitude.
One thing that confused me about the place was how it was advertised as a Thai restaurant, and yet it’s a fusion of all Asian cuisine.
Nevertheless, the meals were delicious, and we had a wonderful time.
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Great value, good quality, authentic asian food – I loved watching the Chefs in the open kitchen too.
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We were a group of about 8, laughing and enjoying Rebecca’s birthday quite loudly. Cant tell you what everyone had, as we ordered a lot of different dishes. Suffice to say, the food came surprisingly quickly for such a big table and after a mouthful or two, no-one stuck to their own plate but instead shared them around, such was the pleasure.
If you want great food, don’t want to spend the earth and have fun with friends, Monsoon Poon is a must do.
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Overall though It’s a good fun place to go with a group of friends, with something
for most people.
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quite noisy but we loved the activity going on therefore not ideal for a quiet date.
really enjoyed the place good location
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