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8 days ago
Ponsonby Nando’s is brilliant – whoever cooks the chicken does it perfectly – seriously, the stand up kebab is brilliant. Always normally disappointed with Nando’s as normally not particularly clean, average service and food is often very very average – not here, it is great. Really clean and tidy – we dropped in a Friday night with Kids in tow on the way back from sport and really quick, well cooked – will be going back – A+
10 days ago
Not sure why it’s taken me so long to review Burger Fuel, as I’ve been a customer of theirs for many years. But my last visit there has prompted me to finally write this, as it must be said that the quality of their food and service has slowly but surely gone down the gurgler. I knew they were taking a turn for the worse when they started charging for aioli! Damn you!! But really.. Chips are consistenly undercooked or cold or both. Buns often stale. Salad – great chunks of onion and a soggy old piece of lettuce anyone? What once were wonderful hand made patties with crispy edges and great beef flavour, are now machine made, perfectly circular, mushy, bland and grey. Don’t even remind me of what the bacon looks and tastes like… Just yuck. I still given them two stars though, because in all honestly I will probably go back there at 2am on a Saturday morning.
13 days ago
I first visited Happy Takeaways when I was 12years old and I am now 49 and still visit. The food is always top quality, fresh and excellent value for money. It is worth the drive from Mt Wellington to Westmere
17 days ago
The gourmet burgers were terribly. The bun was very basic, a minimal piece of bacon and not much else. Ordered the larger size chips, that was a pathetic amount.Should have gone to our regular Burger Wisconsin where you get good quality and quantity. I feel this place ripping off people offering deals for a product that is far from being gourmet. Don’t get fooled by the fancy website and branding. I suspect any good feed back was concocted.
19 days ago
Used a two-for-one GrabOne voucher to get two Gourmet Sirloin Steak Angus burger (as this was the only burger permitted in the Gourmet range) and was disappointed to find a really thing slab of patty. The taste was okay, but the bread felt “powdery” giving the impression that it has been kept for a while already hence losing moisture. I’m not sure if a normal priced (without a two for one voucher) would give me a thicker, and meatier patty, but considering they market themselves via GrabOne, this isn’t a good look and could drive customers away if they continued to serve different portion to voucher customers.
21 days ago
Gluten free heaven! Many takeaway outlets offer one or two token items for coeliacs, but this place is full of choices. I had fish, potato fritters and kumara chips, all delicious. Despite being pretty busy we only waited 20 minutes and the staff/owner still found time to say g’day and thanks to every customer. My husband thought I was mad wanting to go that far for fish and chips but it was well worth the drive from the north shore. We’ll be back!
22 days ago
What a tremendous fish burger! So full of good old kiwi-style beetroot, tomato, lettuce, onion, cheese, egg and the freshly flavoured battered fish. Chips were just beautiful, and not over-salted, which was a big bonus, as I was taking them home for my daughter. Actually, it was fantastic that the burger was not over-salted either, but a packet of salt was included in with the chips – and I did add some salt to my burger coz I love a bit of extra seasoning. I was just planning on taking away, but felt the atmosphere was so groovy and comfortable, that I sat at one of the high wooden tables to enjoy my burger right there instead. Lovely warm mood-lighting, lots of polished wood in the decor, and complimentary tomato sauce on each of the three tables, in the form of the classic Kiwiana big round tomato sauce squeezy bottles. First time I’ve seen that this century! Each table had a wee “Footrot Flats” cartoon book on it. Walls adorned with Kiwiana paraphenalia – but not overdone. What a cool place. There’s also a two-seater couch in front of a playstation, for customers to play while waiting – an appropriately modern update to the old “Spacies” we used to play as kids back in the eighties when waiting for our Friday night fish & chips! I phoned in my order before hopping on the motorway from the city – so off at Market Rd, and straight thru the lights to the Parking behind the shop (pretty bright red signage on building) was real easy. Staff were bubbly. This place is really truly great.
22 days ago
After reading the reviews i decided to give it a shot which was just OK. The place is beautiful and everything is nice and neat but the food i ordered wasn’t up to standard and very “sloppy”. I guess they have changed the waitress since then because this one needed to learn how to smile. Would recommend it if your into chicken and would like to eat at a well presented place, but if your looking for a great price range with great food i wouldn’t recommend it.
22 days ago
one of the best takeaways, can always rely on it, up till 4am in the morning.
potato fritters are good, wantons are great, chicken burger is awesome, and fried rice has the most meat ever in their combination meats
its a once a week visit minimum for me 
22 days ago
Pretty weird little joint. I went after they had just opened so they might have improved by now but I’m not in any hurry to go back. I suspect the place was opened by a couple of mates who wanted to give it a go, which is commenable, but unfortunately did not translate to a good burger experience. Their menu is terrible, far too extensive and unnecessarily complicated, not to mention the spelling mistakes. Why not just do a handful of burgers and make sure you do them WELL? Our burgers took a good 20 minutes, were poorly constructed and lacked flavour. Chips were soggy. Sorry guys.
23 days ago
Usually pop into kiwiana on the way home from a surf out west, they do great burgers and im still working my way through he menu! Check them out when you get a chance!
25 days ago
I’ve eaten from many fish and chip shops over the years and always despaired over how greasy and soggy the chips and fish are. I would never dream of buying anything other than fish and chips because I would hate to see the result of a fish and chip shop trying to cook real food. Then I heard from my friend about how great the chips were at this place in Kingsland and ever since I have been a convert. The chips are crisp and flavoursome, they are generous with their portion sizes and the chips always leave you wanting more. The fish I have only had once but it was fresh and I was really pleased to see the portion size was bigger than I was expecting it to be. The batter was crispy and delicious! I also really enjoy the chicken tenders and their burgers which have heaps of fresh ingredients in them and are definitely “Kiwi” burgers! The best part of Kiwiana however is the service – I usually visit during weekdays and they have a friendly girl called Jess serving, when I visit she tends to be the only one there and can handle multiple orders on her own with efficiency and is very friendly even when it’s really busy. I have watched the food being prepared and I am very impressed with the hygiene standards in the kitchen, I have never seen any food left out on the benches and the benches are always really clean – unlike some other fish and chip shops I’ve seen. All and all I am a Kiwiana convert and will continue coming back!
27 days ago
I thought it was just me but apparently not, the lady that served my partner and I was so rude. She insisted on bringing half a dozen oysters to the table even before we had sat down. She practically stood over us demanding we order after only being sat for a couple of minutes. She also thumped the sauces down loudly on our table. We got calamari and a seafood cocktail which actually were delicious but after we finished the same lady seemed to be standing behind us watching our table it was a bit intimidating and uncomfortable. Don’t eat here, honestly, most eatery’s on Waiheke have friendly service, our experience was horrible and for $30 for 2 entrees with terrible service its just not worth it.
27 days ago
BEST burger fuel we’ve tried!! We travel from the North Shore to eat at burger fuel mission bay. Perfectly cooked burgers every time and delicious fresh kumera chips and spud fries (we’ve noticed a few of the burger fuel joints will pre-make the chips and let them sit there for a while, not this joint!). The staff are super friendly and the place is always very clean. AA++
27 days ago
We discovered Murder Burger through a discount voucher website. We’ve been about ten times now over the last two years and the food is always excellent. They make each burger to order so there’s a bit of a wait, but it’s worth it. We’re working our way through the menu but so far my favourite is the Gourmet Beef Avocado & Bacon. They also do brilliant chips. If you love a good burger, check these guys out.
30 days ago
Went there for dinner and unfortunately wasn’t the greatest. Burger was large but just didn’t seem to have any flavour. Probably one of the worst burgers I have had in Auckland. Side was small compaired to other burger places near by. Wont be back as there are much better places near by.
31 days ago
Very disappointed after hearing great things about them. Possibly we tried the wrong burger?? Angus steak burger $14.95 but it looked the steak had been beaten into a schinztel. Thin. $4.40 large chips would not fit in one hand. Delivered on time but food was not very warm. Ive made better burgers at home but I guess if you brand a burger outlet anyone can make money in Ponsonby??
34 days ago
We got fish n chips there yesterday. The food looked great. The fish, fritters and hotdogs looked great. There was one problem though. It was like the oil had totally absorbed into the batter. But you wouldn’t know it until you tasted it. It was so greasy and oily on the inside. 2006 – 2009 was a long time ago.
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