Markets & Food Events

Highlights

The Best Markets In Auckland (Updated August 2025)

Make markets your favourite weekend morning ritual and kick on with mates for the night markets too. Here is our (extensive!) list of the very best Auckland markets.

Food

Where To Gorge On Dubai Chocolate-Inspired Treats In Auckland

If there's one food trend that's defined 2025 thus far, it's Dubai or knafeh chocolate. What started as a candy bar bringing together pistachio cream, tahini, and kataifi (a type of shredded pastry) inside a crackable, paint-splattered chocolate shell, created by Sarah Hamouda of Fix Dessert Chocolatier in Dubai—has inspired an infinte number of copcats across the globe, and just as many sweet treats (think cookies, pastries, even cocktails).

Vicki spreads pate on fluffy toast at truth/dare.

Restaurants

Auckland’s Best New Restaurant Openings Of 2025 You Need To Know About

We live for new openings (especially the kind that involves food) and know you do, too. Fortunately, Auckland is the city that just keeps on giving when it comes to new restaurants, bars, cafes and bakeries—we really are a lucky bunch.

Rest of the best

Two mugs that you could have painted at Coffee, Croissants & Clay, one of the best things to do with mum this Mother’s Day.

What's On

The Best Things To Do With Mum This Mother’s Day In Auckland

If there’s one day that can trigger the battle of the high teas it’s Mother’s Day, and this year is no exception.

Food & Drink

Auckland’s Most Epic Easter Treats For You To Hunt Down In 2025

Easter is fast approaching and for the sweet tooths amongst us (me!), this is pleasing news indeed. After all, what other holiday is celebrated by stuffing your face with as much chocolate as humanly possible?

Somebody covets a stacked sandwich from Gloria's.

Best Of

Where To Go In Auckland CBD For A Quick, Nutritious, Cheap Lunch On A Weekday

The economy may be in dire straits but your bank account need not be—cheap eats are not a thing of the past. In fact, you can tuck into a lunch that’s quick and healthy for less than twenty bucks, even if you work in Auckland CBD.

Three slices of blue-coloured mochi-stuffed swiss rolls by Fankery.

Food & Drink

New Year New Snacks: What To Eat At The BNZ Auckland Lantern Festival

Grab your tickets to this free family-friendly event filled with fireworks, local dance and drum performances, lion dancing and beautiful lanterns lighting up the grounds. With over 60 food stalls and lines out the door each year—we’ve rounded up our top food picks while enjoying the sights and lights.

A person with a rainbow flag facepainted on their forehead rocks out to music at Big Gay Out.

Food & Drink

Chromatic Dining: A Curated Must-Try Dish List So You Can Eat The Rainbow This Auckland Pride

Eat a rainbow this Auckland Pride with eight must-try chromatic dishes from local hospo legends.

Things To Do

The Best Places For Strawberry Picking In And Around Auckland

If you’re like us and love a juicy berry punnet or two, then read on to find the best pick-your-own strawberry fields in Tāmaki (and beyond).

The General Collective Lifestyle & Design Market—Christmas Edition, one of Auckland's best Christmas markets.

Shopping

Auckland’s Best Christmas Markets To Visit This Festive Season

We love a good market, especially one with the word 'Christmas' attached! So hop in the car, crank up the Mariah (your secret's safe with us) and head along to one of these incredible Christmas markets coming to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland this holiday season.

Someone pulls apart some crunchy, juicy chicken from Brew'd Hawt.

Food & Drink

The Best Fried Chicken In Auckland

If we could only eat one dish for the rest of our lives, there's a good chance it'd be fried chicken.