I went there today for the first time and I was blown away with my overall experience!! An awesome and authentic restaurant with a great location!!! I highly recommend it to anyone and sure I will be back in a not distant future!!!

This is the best Indian food experience I have had since coming to New Zealand fifteen years ago.

Great authentic Indian food at a good price. Also a few alternatives for those who don’t want a curry, but with an Indian twist.

The service was also very friendly and efficient. Also nice to have Heineken on tap.

I will be eating here again soon.

Love it, had flavour bursts and gun powder prawns for entree and then had the most delicious authentic butter chicken curry. Good value for money but with the entrees could not have a refill of the botomless curry

Awesome environment and awesome service especially by Sias, a great bloke with great mannerism and we loved the paan shots on the house and food was quite good. We went there quite late but the owner/manager still accommodated us with a lovely smile so definitely a place to go and the meals are reasonably priced too.

Awesome evening with family celebrating Mother’s Day. Sias waited on our table and really looked after us very well. Some of the dishes were a bit too hot for us but Sias made up for that with a few things on the house including lovely paan shots. Great ambience, great service, good food.

Went there on the weekend, the service was great, the meal was on the table within 15 minutes and the food was very good. Will definitely go again

My husband and I decided to take the bus into the city on Monday 25/3 to celebrate my birthday. We wandered along to the Viaduct and then along to Wyndam Quarter looking at menus of the various restaurants along the way. We hadn’t been to Wyndam quarter before. We liked what we saw at Urban Turban and eventually wandered back to try out this place. We chose the tapa’s platter with free Naan bread and to accompany this a bottle of beer each. I’m not really a beer drinker, but find with Indian food, it compliments the food. We were not disappointed – the food was absolutely delicious and more than enough for two to share. Thank you Urban Turban for helping to make my birthday memorable.

We went to this place because they had george fm dj-ing out front. it brought the place a hip atmosphere. We shared a platter and a jug of tiger. To my surprise the waiter came and topped our drinks up. Such a fun experience. The chef was happy to change a few things due to my diet. very happy and hopeful staff. Great service:)
Be back soon.

Great flavourful food and service!

Place looks great. Well located.
Menu is quite extensive, but food is not that great.
Prices are too high. I have better expirence at other Indian restaurant.

Bottomless curry concept is great but, after second time when you ask for for curry…portion seems to become lesser and waiting staff looks at you as you are a thief….not impressed.
There are many better places in Auckland to dine.

Check price before you stop here for a drink on public holiday. We had a tap beer and glass of house wine – $28.70 on Auckland Anniversary Day!

Good food. Good service apart one thing. One of the staff had terrible BO.

Went on a Monday night so was quiet. Food was lovely and the service excellent. The bottomless curry is an amazing main to get. The mocktail was also quite good. It is expensive but average when compared to other restaurants in the area

However found the chef in the kitchen staring at our table the entire time. It was uncomfortable and after a while we just ignored them.

Had my birthday dinner here last night and loved the place!! Brilliant food and fantastic service- (also, when they say the Gunpowder Prawns are hot they mean seriously HOT and absolutely delicious). Will definitely be going back to Urban Turban regularly. Thanks for a wonderful evening guys!!

LOVED IT. We had been meaning to eat here for a very long time, and we finally did it on Friday night.

Nothing much to fault here. As soon as we entered, we were attended to and seated with menus. Water was served as we pondered the menu. We were attended to by a very competent young waiter with a lip piercing. He was very patient with us as we took ages to decide what we wanted and answered all our questions. Drinks came out straight away, food came out promptly despite it being quite busy, food plates were also cleared away one by one when finished. Enough about the service; it was spot on.

The food: about as authentic as you can get being a mainstream Indian restaurant. The food was very honest and representative of Mumbai. They have this organic paneer, which is the best paneer I have had! The Bombay aloo is also fantastic, as well as the mango lassi.

Can’t wait to go back and try out the other things on the menu.

I liked how they had labelled vegetarian dishes but being an Indian restaurant, there really should have been more vegetarian options.

All in all, a happy diner!

Great food – great service – reasonable pricing.
Indian cuisine without all the fatty ghee.
Our drinks arrived promptly, as did the food. water was refilled promptly. No hassle when we showed our discount card. Excellent!

Dined at Urban Turban last evening. Whilst the food was tasty, the service and attitude we were subjected to will ensure we do not return. Our initial waitress was great. However when we asked for a refill of our “Bottomless Curry” we were advised that because we had shared the curries we were not entitled to receive any more…”that’s the rules” we were told in a very abrupt and argumentative manner by another female staff member.

Now this is where I am still confused……the menu states:

“All curry bowls are bottomless (subject to conditions*) and served with portion of rice & naan –
* bottomless curry is for one paying guest only”

There were 6 of us dining (ie 6 paying guests) and we all ordered a curry – so 6 different curries were ordered but apparently b/c we “shared” them (tasting all 6 curries rather than just eating one curry per person) we were not entitled to receive the Bottomless Curry offer. It certainly took some discussion and in the end when we asked to speak to the Manager, who never appeared, we were reluctantly provided with the 3 top up curries requested. I am still bamboozled as to what the issue actually was…..it was not as though we had only ordered 3 curries and shared them amongst the 6 of us – we all ordered a curry. If the stroppy waitress who told us “that’s the rules” had actually been able to explain to us in a rationale manner why we were “not entitled” to partake in the Bottomless Curry offer then I most likely would not be writing this review right now. If I have clearly missed something I would love to be enlightened.
The unisex bathrooms were also smelly and dirty. Plenty of other Indian restaurants in Auckland to choose from – this is one we will not be returning to.

My husband and I visited on a sunny Saturday at lunch time. We firstly read the menus at the entry to each restaurant along Wynyard Quarter, Urban Turban was the only one to have waiters greet us and tell us their specials. We mentioned that we were just looking at menus for now, when we returned they thanked us for returning. We were immediately seated in a lovely spot with good views of the harbour and set up with menus and water, very nice to be served water without having to specifically ask for it, most essential on such a hot day. The wonderful service continued right through our visit.
We ordered one of the specials, a $20 butter chicken pizza with complementary Heineken which they happily switched for a Tiger beer. We also ordered a side of hand cut fries and a Monteiths cider to turn the special into a shared meal for two. The fries were delicious and a very generous serving, the pizza was nice but of an average degree of flavour like most butter chicken dishes served in Auckland but still enjoyable.
All up the meal, including drinks cost $30, quite a decent price for such a wonderful meal. We left very satisfied. Best service we’ve experienced since moving to Auckland 3 years ago.

We celebrated my daughters 20th birthday at this restaurant and were very impressed by the food and service (especially by the Manager). They made it very special and went the extra mile..we will definitely go again when we are in next in Auckland.

I really enjoyed having dinner at this place.
Friendly and kind service with great dish.
I personally liked their Butter Chicken because it was something different from other Indian Restaurants.
I recommend you to go and try it

Absolutely tremendous! Our whole experience at Urban Turban was just fantastic. The two of us had a really lovely meal here on Saturday night. We dined at 7pm, and were warmly welcomed by a very friendly waitress who referred us to the maitre d’ for seating. All staff were smiley and chatty, and made us feel really looked after the whole way through.

The food was fantastic. We strove to order something a little different from our usual Indian choices, and the menu was very broad. We loved that there was a section pitched as ‘sharing plates’. I haven’t seen an Indian menu with that before, and it’s something we love doing. So we decided to share everything we ordered. We went for some Pappadoms that were rolled and stuffed with salad ingredients of cabbage & red onion and other freshly prepped veg. Very tasty, and refreshing to have some greens with our other choices.
We also chose 6 Garlic Prawns to share, which were sensational.

We didn’t want to over-stuff ourselves, so we chose to share a traditional main curry serving. (It’s actually a bottomless curry if you don’t share… but we didn’t want refills, so that was fine.) The ‘Himalayas’ chicken had “Auckland’s favourite” written next to it on the menu, so we went for this homestyle curry, that was really different to our normal curry choice, and really rather sensational in its flavour. The curry came out with naan and rice included.

My only recommendation for improvement, would be a description to accompany each wine on the menu. I’m no connoisseur of wine, but generally know what I’ll like if I can read a write-up about it… and I think I chose wrong, and I felt like I was buying blind without the little wine-blurb underneath any of the wines!

The atmosphere was stylishly contemporary, with cool coloured lighting of ochre and amber. And somebody must’ve engineered the acoustics well when they designed the place, becaMoreuse even though the place was packed, (plus with other people sitting at the bar to wait for tables to become available), there was absolutely no trouble talking at a normal volume, and hearing each other easily.

I’d also like to particularly mention how great the tall waitress with long brown hair was, as I think she had the perfect manner you could want from a waitress. Naturally relaxed, smiley and thoughtful.

A really lovely evening out for our first date-night in ages. Thanks Urban Turban!

If anyone sane is reading these reviews take note of this one! Not all the other “5 stars” that have never reviewed a restaurant before. The single worst dining experience I have ever had. Food is extremely bad and service extremely bad. Mains come out before entrees, food precooked that morning, dry and tasteless. I will be scarred for life from this place.

Absolutely Love this place, the Gun Powder Prawns are to die for if you love a bit of heat.

They are good and keep topping you up with water, though I would recommend the cocktails if you are having a night out -or in need of a little cooling.
There is something on this menu for everyone even if you don’t like spicy food.

Keep going back to this place – give it a go!

Really nice place to have dinner, the atmosphere was busy but not overly busy, staff were friendly and helpful.
Food tasted great and was good value.
Butter chicken tasted great and could definitely go bottomless as it didn’t taste as greasy as other places.

We went there Friday evening, enjoyed the food greatly, the service was really friendly and quick, they do look after you well.
Also we didn’t have to wait long for the food and drinks, the food was good quality and served nicely.
I’m definitely going to return again!

It was our first time to the new viaduct and its a beautiful place, we were wandering where to go for breakfast and then we saw this place called as urban turban, we went inside and there was a waiter to welcome us with some menus. the restaurant has a beautiful view from the outside sitting, earlier we were confused how can a Indian restaurant serve English breakfast but when we had the food it was delicious, big portions and the best of all was the Indian style omelet. after being really busy they still served the food on time and it was still hot, i would love to go there again to try some main curries and i highly recommend everyone to go there an try the food.

Went Sunday 26.08.2012 for brunch. Restaurant about 1/4 full – not busy.

Ordered juices, meals and coffees for four.

Food was underwhelming. My omelet could have doubled as a shoe innersole at short notice. Service – not good.

Nothing was co-ordinated – drinks and food arrived in dribs and drabs. By the time the last meal was served the rest of us had finished eating.
Not a good experience and can’t recommend this place.

Anna

After wandering around looking for a suitable place for lunch, this one grabbed my interest.

I enjoy Indian food and was keen to try something new. Mine was the Himalayan Chicken and my wife had Chicken Frankie. We both comment on how nice the food was, mine was just hot enough with a little kick.

The hardest thing was selecting what to eat, so many yummy sounding dishes. Can’t wait to explore the menu another time.

Be adventurous you will not regret it.

The staff were very friendly and prompt.

We went here in the afternoon. Ordered 3 starters and 2 mains. All the dishes were yumm. The Gun powder prawns are super spicy, my friends couldn’t even manage to take a bite. I loved the spice.
As mentioned in previous reviews, the bottomless butter chicken quantity is just too much for one person and the waiter was very friendly and told us we could share the dish (we didn’t even make a dent in the first serving). They serve boneless chicken and I think that for the price its totally worth it.
I would highly recommend this restaurant to everyone.

I have eaten here a few times and find the food and service very good. The staff are very friendly and attentive. The food is always good and served quickly. Definitely my favorite Indian in Auckland

Absolute tip top brilliant service and excellent food

Best Indian since being nz we had the snapper and the himalayan chicken curry both were delicious. Waitress’s and waiters really attentive and friendly food came really quick

Also had chocolate samosas yum!
Definitely be going back

Great afternoon …..all I can say really fantastic. Restaurant was absolutely stunning with great views and seemed very spacious and the staff were very nice and greeted us with a smile. I visit Auckland very often for business trips and this time my team decided to go for Indian lunch..We ordered butter chicken and it was simply divine, much better than any other Indian restaurant that I have been lately.

We had great time and the staff looked after us very well…….Really value for money…..wish they open one in Sydney soon…..Well done Urban Turban & all the best …. Will be back soon…. .

We’d walked past Urban Turban many times and wondered about whether or not a restaurant located in a very touristy area would be any good. We finally got the chance to try is out with a deal voucher.

The verdict – excellent! We choose a May Sunday evening when the weather was crap. The food was excellent, the service too was first rate.

Would we return – you bet!

we went yesterday to Urban Turban , on request of my friends ,we had their group on voucher , which I seriously thought that gave us the best value for money food in town . Starting with their initial welcome , warm service , best part was exact turn around time for the food , and food tasted just out of the world , was so good .The bartender makes amazing cocktails , waitresses are very warm and centric in their approach …in short best service got in a restaurant…….

Well after a longtime we had the best Indian food, with exact indian taste and excellent service. First we entered and got greeted well, then the service was good and fast.
The wine list is good as well and what I loved was the Indian cocktails that they make. Well done guys keep it up

Urban turban, a fantastic menu, but boy were we disappointed. Our starter was like a breakfast cereal, sugar puffs with spice. Our garlic bread had so much garlic on we couldn’t eat it. The lamb curry was tough and sad in a watery grave. The only thing I can say good about the place was that the German waitress was great. I told her when I left it was the worst Indian meal I had ever had and she said they like to put a twist on things. This restaurant should take the twist out and serve real Indian food. They need a make over by Gordon Ramsey. Never again.

Its not easy to find a great restaurant that makes you want to go back for more and more. We have been on several occasions now and absolutely love the food and service. We have taken our special friends whom are chefs and real foodies and they can’t stop raving out the delicious food and amazing service. We are going again next weekend and can’t wait. Great prices, we have had the bottomless curry and have never been told that you can’t have anymore, the pieces of chicken are generous. Thanks for making the Urban Turban our favourite restaurant

Went to this place as a friend recommended it.
Impressed with the overall ambiance and the layout of the restaurant – 5 out of 5 for that.

However, expected more in terms of food and service.

Firstly, when we entered it was super silent with no one to greet. No music throughout the evening.

Secondly, the Bombay vegetarian pizza was dry and we just couldn’t eat anything after that – that pizza needs to be looked at – probably a sauce on top or something. Paneer tikka masala was great – recommend that to all. We asked the waiter whats the special – to which he had no answer.

Thirdly the wine list, where are all the New Zealand wines and why is there dominance of so many international wines?

Lastly, when the waiter came and asked ‘hows the food’ we did tell him that the pizza isn’t good enough and very dry – he just smiled and walked away – just expected something more than that.

Again great concept – but bit ore training and attentiveness needed. Food menu definitely needs to be looked at and staff should have a complete understanding of the menu especially due to the premium menu pricing.

Regards

We’d been talking about going to this restaurant for months, as it sounded really awesome. We weren’t disappointed!!! It was Sunday night, easy parking, easy to get a table.
The waitress was wonderful – so bubbly and chatty, but at the same time respecting our “date”.
I got the bottomless butter chicken, which was a generous serving and more than I could eat – so she brought a refill out for my husband, who had also ordered the spicy chicken strips (which were SUPER spicy!). The waitress certainly checked with him that he liked hot food when he ordered that!
The food was divine – I don’t think I’ll ever be able to eat food court indian again. I loved the mocktails as I can’t drink right now, but the wine list was extensive.
The atmosphere was great there – lovely decor, really well done and thought out. Lovely to be right on the waterfront. We’ll definitely be back.

My friend and I had dinner here on Sunday 11 March 2012 and thought we would try the “world-famous” bottomless butter chicken advertised on the menu. Before we decided to eat there, we first specifically asked a waitress if (a) we could share one order of the bottomless butter chicken between two people, and (b) if there were any special T&Cs in that case. The waitress assured us that it was fine to share, and the only thing she mentioned was that only the chicken was unlimited, not the rice/bread/sides that came with the dish. It sounded like a pretty good deal, so we decided to give it a go later that night. It was fairly quiet when we returned to the restaurant around 7pm, but service was still extremely slow. Most of the staff were fairly polite and friendly when we actually got their attention, but one waiter let the entire crew down with his surly attitude and grumpy face. He avoided eye contact and gave the impression that he would rather be anywhere else than at the restaurant. The butter chicken we ordered was not too bad flavour-wise, but the chicken portions were miniscule. It was a mission trying to get refills, and after 4 refills, Mr. Grumpy informed us that as we were sharing, we had reached the maximum number of refills. He explained that the limit was put in place to avoid excessive sharing of one order between a large number of people. Fair enough, but it seems highly unethical to me to advertise something as “bottomless” yet not have the T&Cs printed anywhere on the menu, and also to have staff who fail to explain the T&Cs when specifically asked about sharing the dish. The food is certainly not good enough to convince me to return to Urban Turban, when there are better and cheaper Indian restaurants in Auckland. And to the grouchy waiter: Give smiling a go, Sunshine. If you don’t want to serve people, don’t work as a waiter.

Our first visit was on the RWC finals and did I not think we would get a table to eat as we had not booked and and were planning to wing it.

There was a not a place anywhere on the North wharf and having spotted a small space in the restaurant, I cheekily asked if we could sit at the corner, which was a tight squeeze, to my surprise they agreed and I thought it would be ages before somebody took our order, in-spite of the rush we were served drinks and our meal in record time… very impressed considering how busy they were..

We have been back a few times, Last week took MUM (84 years old) with us, who is pure vegetarian and a fussy eater, She had the Paneer and wife had the gun powder prawns, they both loved it , I had the Soli Boti (Lamb) and it just melted in my mouth..

The food presentation, decor and the ambiance is just great.. Well done Urban Turban… keep it up

I simply love this place.. Good place to have a Business Lunch, take a date for diner, corporate diner( we have our Xmas Function here) or simply have couple of drinks with friends.
The food is amazing especially the “Hot-Six”. Himalayan Chicken is a must. It also have a good selection of wine.

A modern theme, mixed with traditional Bombay street food, the place just make you feel like you have to be back…. The view too..

Lastly my thanks to the Urban Turban Team that provide us the best service, best food recommendation each time we are there. The Head Chief have passion, the manager have passion, the team have passion.. all this equal to great place, great food, great experience.

We normally do not reviews but what a great experience! Indian cuisine with a new style of service and presentation.

The tastes were fabulous, the service outstanding and the atmosphere superb. Well priced and lovely ambiance.

Perhaps a wider selection of choices is the only only improvement. We will be back with bells on.

My experience at Urban Turban (UT) is as you see it, friendly staff, great food, great atmosphere, great wine & beer selections. Have visited three times.

1st time was with a team of 4 and OK they needed polishing but that is to be expected everyone wants to try a new place. You need to get the feelers out and try it again and as it is a new place, new restaurant food, entertainment bar in a great location great layout, great atmosphere. Beautiful and relaxing at the waterfront.
“Yes I’ll be back”.

Second time I came with a party of suppliers and what a change in the menu and the food was great try the pita and roti what a difference wow I could eat that all night.
The lamb curry was divine and I am telling you if you have not tried the Gunpowder Prawns this is a classic you place it in your mouth and its like having fireworks exploding mouth watering. Its a bit of a teaser actually because the taste climax’s to your pallet and just when you think its over you end up getting a mouthful explosion.
Tried it the first visit it was a “tom thumb” now you have the fireworks of flavours great Urban Turban great.

Third time we went staff were more friendlier sharper and ready to provide assistance you know what I mean that customer care with the great smiles and friendliness that it is just what you need a bit of pampering, going the extra mile..
The atmosphere is always at its best and you have a wide range to choose inside, outside, long cosy sittings or the stool area. Don’t forget the large kauri sitting, its so beautifully shaped and comfy to sit.

The food has sharpen its edge again with more to come try “The Hot-six” you want hot, you want a kick to your pallet this is the one to go for it is a plate that you will not forget. “Care to try”? and with my all time favourites gunpowder prawns and pita selection this is an experience
Hey enjoyed the lamb curry, the taste, the flavour, theMore sauce, great with the pita and why not use your fingers its a great way to eat and experience taste. Selection of wines and beers to dress the occasion of the night.

The meal comes and it was worthwhile the wait.
Chef and team it was a great evening with associates, the entertainment fitted around the atmosphere of the evening. Impressive menu, Impressive night.

DS

Really impressed! The staff were great, food tasty and location brilliant. Big fan of the bottomless curries and well impressed they called early in the week to ensure our booking was still confirmed…..really rate this place!

We had our staff Christmas lunch at Urban Turban and enjoyed great service, delicious food, and sunshine. We couldn’t ask for more.

Callum was an attentive and friendly host and it was nice to have Mac the chef come out and talk with us.

We had a good range of tapas to share for our entrees, including gun powder prawns and yummy chicken tikka bites, followed by a selection of delicious curries. The wine was excellent, especially the Amisfield pinot noir and Pegasus Bay riesling.

I want to go back and have the extremely yummy Himalayan chicken curry again!

Awesome place! Would recommend to anyone and everyone. Service was great and the staff were really friendly, happy to help and be of service and good looking. Although, i wish they told me how hot the gun powder prawns were – my fault, the name says it all. This place is the best as it’s so modern and stylish in today’s times but the food is still very much India.

Came in for a work lunch. Host was friendly and helpful. Food was delicious! It was really nice to sit there all afternoon and enjoy the food and the view. A good selection of beverages. A lovely way to spend a Friday afternoon. Thanks Urban Turban, see you soon!

Was at Urban Turban last night with my office buddies.
After work drinks – really cool place, the staff were great and truly enjoyed the Garlic prawns n Chicken Tikka.
Never had a Indian eatery serve garlic prawns – apparently they do like it is in Mumbai (charcoal BBQ) – it was the really super – great taste.
Lastly, great wine list – the chardonnay range is great.

Excellent Food, beautiful ambience, Good service and recommending to be there on any occassion!!
Would love to go there again.

We booked a dinner for 30 of us for a staff Christmas do and were all very impressed. Glen and his team offered us impeccable service throughout the night and really looked after us. To top this off the food was out promptly and tasted fantastic. Will definitely be back for more!

This place is a real paradox and is Indian by food, not by nature. The restaurant environment and service is very European (and the beers).

We had a great night and they seemed to be actively wanting to improve their service as we found it very good and the “review us on MenuMania’ cards were prominently displayed. The four of us dinned and shared from a complete range of dishes on the menu. They were all ok and the gunpowder prawns were a hit for one of our team.

Don’t go to the waterfront if you want a cheap meal.

Very disappointed. Will not go back.
Went for a snack and a drink on a weekend afternoon.
Ordered prawns and got 6 prawns for a token small salad on the side for $16!!
I do not know how you can justify that sort of price.

Service was slow and we had to try for a while to get attention and ask for menus.

This place has a long long way to go!!
Needs to pick up its game if this is where our tourists are going!

Great to have such a restaurant in Auckland.Went with friends last Sunday and was really pleased by the service and quality of food provided.Great location with very authentic atmosphere.we ordered chicken tikka and garlic prawns with two butter chicken as mains believe me never had that taste before .Really amazing and most recommended place for food lovers with quality of service.

20/12/2011: After receiving an email from the Manager, I was still bit sceptical, but I am glad that I took the second chance along with my friends on Saturday and went again! What a change that was.

Firstly, I was surprised that the guys who were serving and I won’t call them waiters because they are not! They knew the menu inside out. And there are no tablets to send tickets to kitchen. You order, they repeat, and that is what I believe is said straight to the Chef, and by large, that is how Indian food or any food for that matter should be asked to cook.

Service was great, big change, Wine was good, so were the Mojitos.

It is good to see head chef seeing the tables that are being served and making sure that message is conveyed directly through the people that are being served to the people that serving and lastly to the people who are cooking your food. This is what a restaurant should be, and Urban Turban has come a long way in a very short time. I hope they keep it this way.

For: Those who love food and could be patient enough for good, quality meal.

Against: Who think that food should be as quick and as generic as McDonalds or any other fast food.

Must Try: Samosa Chat and Chocolate Samosa.

Well Done guys! Very Well Done!


20/10/2011: It does not even deserve a one star! We ordered 2 starters and both were awful. The Chicken Tikka was uncooked and Bhel was just bland.

Then came the mains, and no one asked us if we were done with the starters. If the waiters had there way, they would have just shoved in our mouths and done with it! I had to order extra salt to make it taste better.

The whole experience was awful. Zero from us!

Alarm bell #1 was when I asked the waitress what Indian beers they had and she replied “Sol”.

Hmm, Sol. Not my favourite Indian beer. I’d rather have Mumbai’s finest – Stella Artois.

Alarm bell #2 – “What’s the curry of the day?” Butter Chicken. Ok…

Wasn’t asked how spicy we wanted our curries – Mine had zero heat whatsoever. Pretty small portion, and each curry comes with a token bit of salad on the side as if it’s a cafe.

I’m not sure how anyone could describe the view as spectacular – most other parts of Auckland have a much more spectacular view.

This is not a restaurant which is finding it’s feet and isn’t quite hitting the mark yet – It is generic and failing from the ground up. Most staff not Indian (apart from the lady who told me about their Indian beers unfortunately!)

Literally the worst Indian restaurant I have ever been to, I cannot think of a single redeeming factor.

Very much setup for the tourist dollar.

Had a great experience. Location is brilliant. Very tastefully done. Tried new dishes, I was told, were introduced today – Prawn Bhel, Chocolate Samosa and Paan Ice Cream. Very innovative items – Modern Indian Cuisine!!!!. Service was with a smile, courteous and prompt. Great value for money. Definitely not to be missed as an experience. Well done for raising the bar for the Indian Food in New Zealand. keep it up! We definitely had a great time!

Went to Urban Turban today for a work lunch and was very impressed.

Yes, the service could be better – they were very friendly and attentive overall but our initial waiter never came back after we asked for 5 minutes to review the menu. Once we had a different one though, service was great.

One thing that wasn’t pointed out – and would probably be why some of these reviews think that the curry is overpriced – is that the curry is BOTTOMLESS. Yes, that’s right, you can keep having it refilled as much as you want. We only found this out after we were a bit confused why the waiter was asking if we wanted more curry! So in this respect, I think the pricing is more than fair. This definitely should be advertised more on the menu etc.

The food itself was great – my colleagues had the butter chicken and found it delicious, I had a lamb madras and it was fantastic also. Meat very tender and the sauce was just right – not too heavy and flavoured well. The naan was a hit also.

I would definitely return here, a few service kinks to iron out, but they are new and the food is great.

Eight of us visited for lunch. I wish we hadn’t. Very poor service, with the waitress bringing out bottles of beer five times and asking ‘is this the one?’ Useless. The food was pretty appalling – one curry of the day on offer, and it was lukewarm and bland. I’ve never had to put salt on a curry before to give it some taste.

Great location, and I hope they sort themselves out before the rush of the RWC crowd. I won’t be back though.

REALLY expensive for what it is. Curry of the day (which appears to have been butter chicken for some time) was of average foodhall standards, however at 5star prices – $27 for a cheap curry and soft drink for lunch.
View was good, but that’s about it

Just got in from what was a beautiful- Saturday 20th we spent the entire day at the new North Wharf and all its glory finaly an exciting (not expensive place to bring the family) As promised i’m writing a review for Urban Turban – We all 7 of us had the greatest experience and the food was awesome – music was a bit loud at first but then was kindly lowered – the staff although rushed off their feet – made us feel special we are already planning another family outing next weekend

Pity there is no half star rating because that’s this restaurant really deserves.

Terrible service meant we didn’t even stay for the food.

After twenty five minutes of waiting for our food and noticing other tables that had ordered after us being served we asked the waitress to find out how far away our food was. After 10 minutes of watching her avoid our eye contact while working around us, we told the bar person to cancel our order and left.

We saw one other table walk out after 5 minutes without any staff attending to them.

So good to have a fantastic Indian Restaurant on the North Wharf. Service was quick and hospitable, food was delicious (loved the tapas options) and would surely recommend it to my friends.

So good to have Indian cuisine served in a way that’s never been introduced in NZ before.

Thanks guys – we had a great time on Sat night.

Bad food, amateur staff, rip-off prices. We were greeted by the manager and she said if we were lucky we might get a good waiter otherwise we should try to find her if we wanted anything! She left the menus and said she’d be back in a minute – we never saw her again. Curry of the day was ‘butter chicken’ ie cold tomato soup with a couple of small pieces of meat. Waiter was very casual and amateur. Prices were ridiculously expensive for mall-style food. Embarrassing to think that overseas visitors will be experiencing this!

We popped in for a drink on Sunday and the service was good but the pricing was high! $9 for a Heineken and $5 for a small hot choc is simply to much. Seemed to only have one till so paying when busy will take a while.

Good amount of people in the place but our friends all said the same, there are better places in that new area.

It was only the third day that the restaurant had been open, when Suz and I visited this brand spanking new establishment in the Wynyard Quarter to celebrate my birthday. Because they have only just opened, they only had a limited edition menu in operation, consisting of three tapa dishes, four mains courses and one dessert. In a couple of weeks time they hope to expand this considerably, but maintain a predominantly tapas style of dining. We shared a Chicken Tikka and Gun Powder Prawns to start with. Both were quite tasty. The prawns could have been a bit spicier to warrant the gunpowder name. We then shared a Sweet Tangy Dahl, Potato Bhaji and Curry of the Day (Butter Chicken). The first two were really tasty, but the chicken needed spicing up (as it usually always does). My favourite was the potato bahji and Suz’s was the dahl. They had some really yummy flavours. The accompanying naan bread was really good too and the aromatic rice was a further highlight. The mains, in keeping with the tapa theme, were quite small servings, especially considering the prices being charged. We still had room for dessert and decided (not much choice with only one option) to give the Pan Flavoured Ice Cream a try. We shared one serving between the two of us, which was a good quantity. One spoonful and I was immediately taken back to my trip to India four years ago. I was disappointed that Kingfisher beer wasn’t available. We both decided to have the house merlot which was nicely presented in a wine glass with a little more finesse than a normal pub glass. The dining environment is a little funky, with music to match. It wasn’t your normal Indian tunes but more like a Latin American beat. It is more geared up for drinking clients with bar-leaners outside and a sheltered area for smokers too. It was nice to have the opportunity to chat with the head chef and restaurant manager about the food and operations over the first dayMores. They were interested in our feedback and we were the only customers by the end of our meal.