The Engine Room

Nice food, attentive staff
I would recommend to have an option of having a menu in tables as well - reading from the wall was not very comfortable.

Utterly delicious and comforting food; nice cosy atmosphere and lovely service. Just what we needed. Will be back for more!

Goats Cheese Souffle is the best and great bistro high quality food, service and overall experience.

Nice spot but the food is nothing special considering the prices and other good spots in Auckland. Service was sluggish on a busy Saturday night.

All of the food was cooked to perfection, the wait staff are excellent and polite however the food was stuck in the nineties, dated and boring.

A perfectly pleasent meal with lovely service. However, we went for a special truffle dinner. The quality of the perigord truffle was so low as to make it flavourless. Also, the menu was incredibly similar to last year's. We won't be bothering to return

The food was amazing. The entrees outstanding, loved the pumpkin risotto and goat cheese souffle. Staff were outstanding and very knowledgeable guiding you through the menu and wine list. Best dining experience this year.

Amazing service, particularly efficient and attentive. Food very good, although the menu choices felt a bit narrow. I had the deluxe version of the pork schnitzel, not entirely certain the upgrade was worthwhile. The dessert menu seemed a little better, not a huge range but broad appeal. We had a great meal, but it's not cheap.

We visited here for the second time and again were not disappointed - the food was delicious and the service was excellent. Really enjoyed the confit duck and the John Dory delicious too. Still quite a pricey place but enjoyable none the less. Fabulous food with a great vibe. Urban cool, but not in a stuck up way. This place has never disappointed us, always delivers a great experience. No I don't know the owners) it just is that good

Our family group of nine enjoyed the delicious dishes, beautifully presented by friendly professionals. We had a superb celebratory birthday evening and recommend this outstanding restaurant. What a fabulous experience. The food was outstanding - pasta special, venison and the most amazing desert - Cremino al cioccolato Super service friendly and attentive and the food was simply great Can’t recommend enough

Excellent service and great food. Expect to pay a bit more than your average local restaurant, but this isnt average and you won't be disappointed

Great food and atmosphere. New menu board etc. And Karl is a good guy with a great way about him.

The restaurant had a nice interior and good welcome. However my initial brief experience was undone, I felt insulated when I thanked the staff and exited to be asked have I paid for my tab. Especially given two of them were standing there an older lady and the young girl who greeted me earlier. Discretion firstly would be appreciated and secondly maybe taking the time to check the tab is cleared before interrogating the customer then double checking after I gave my answer. Given it was not peak time and restaurant was quiet it makes it even worse. A shame as the start of the experience was different. Manners and making the customer feel comfortable go along way and maybe even apologising when you have realised the customer has paid and your in the wrong. Anyway hopefully they learn to treat customers with more respect in future.

This was a special occasion visit and there was ten of us. Booking a table was easy enough, left a voice mail and got an email to confirm the details. If you are coming in group larger than eight people you will have to choose from 3 or 4 course set menu. Day before dinner they rang me to confirm (or change) reservation. The restaurant is nice with discrete lighting and staff is very friendly and very well looking after guests’ needs. Meal itself was very nice and even it may appear small portioned it is enough. For refreshments there is a selection of wine and beers including beer on tap. This was a very pleasant evening with great food. You probably won’t make this your regular Friday night place considering the prices but it is very good choice for special occasion dinner.

Was really impressed with the service, the staff were very attentive and accommodating.
Nice, modern decor and good atmosphere. Have been a few times and it's consistently a good experience.

Very nice food, friendly and professional staff. I think they should have print out of their food menu as it is hard to read and order from the board

Great location very good service great decor. Unfortunately the food is a let down. I only had a main course and a dessert. The menu is the usual things that you would find in a New Zealand restaurant with funky names to make it look original. Over cooked fish is never nice but it was also bland. My daughter's steak frites was nice she said. I had the pavlova for dessert my daughter the Pannacotta. Mine was very strange the meringue taste was like eating cardboard not the texture the taste. My daughters Pannacotta.how can you make something so wrong the texture again was right but it should taste of pure freshness this was horrible.

Live close by and finally got there tonight for our 17th wedding anniversary dinner. Well worth the wait!

This is the best restaurant on the North Shore by a country mile, and one of the best in Auckland.
The food is bistro style and the menu almost never changes, with good reason - it's outrageously good. I've tried most of the mains but always come back to the confit duck, which is just so delicious.
The service is exceptional - the wait staff seem to remember us, no matter how long it's been since our last visit. The ambience is lovely.though dark. If you like taking photos of your food, try a lunch service!

The restaurant has a lovely atmosphere, and the wait staff were welcoming and attentive. The entrees, steak and desserts were delicious. BUT the pork schnitzel was average, with entrees at $24 and mains at nearly $40 it is overpriced. We were only able to get through two courses before the table turned over and we had to move to the bar for dessert. We did not take a particularly long time to order and eat, so they either need to review their booking time slots, or serve the food faster. Having the menu only written on the wall in a hard to read script, with low ambient lighting is just silly. It resulted in me having to read the entire menu out loud, and us having to look up the dessert menu on our phones so we didn't have to walk across the room and peer over stranger's shoulders. Overall it was nice, but not worth the money.