Guidebook for Auckland
Food Scene
Home to Mix Moon, a great South-East Asian restaurant, and the night markets on Thursday night. There's also a decent bar and Japanese restaurant around the corner.
Totara Ave
Home to Mix Moon, a great South-East Asian restaurant, and the night markets on Thursday night. There's also a decent bar and Japanese restaurant around the corner.
Good cafe where they make their own award winning icecream and have a small but very good range of bagels.
44 Portage Rd
44 Portage RoadGood cafe where they make their own award winning icecream and have a small but very good range of bagels.
The nearest cafe, it's part of a chain but not too bad and the service is usually friendly.
The Coffee Club Avondale
2057 Great N RdThe nearest cafe, it's part of a chain but not too bad and the service is usually friendly.
Open from morning til 9pm-ish - a good place for coffee or a glass of wine!
7 locals recommend
Browne St.
50 Rosebank RdOpen from morning til 9pm-ish - a good place for coffee or a glass of wine!
Good cafe, and home to "Everybody Eats" from Tuesday - Thursday nights, a pay-what-you-can restaurant model.
Woodworks
Good cafe, and home to "Everybody Eats" from Tuesday - Thursday nights, a pay-what-you-can restaurant model.
Essentials
Avondale Racecourse
2-48 Ash StreetHome to the famous Avondale Market on Sunday mornings.
Countdown Lynnmall
Great North RoadThe nearest supermarket.
Much better range than Countdown, albeit slightly further away!
19 locals recommend
New World New Lynn
6 Crown Lynn PlMuch better range than Countdown, albeit slightly further away!
Organic / wholefood store, great place to buy good quality fruit and veges. Also has a decent in-store cafe.
Huckleberry New Lynn with Refill Hub
34D Portage RdOrganic / wholefood store, great place to buy good quality fruit and veges. Also has a decent in-store cafe.
Arts & Culture
The local cinema, which is about as far away from the multiplex experience as you can get.
8 locals recommend
The Hollywood Avondale
20 St Georges RdThe local cinema, which is about as far away from the multiplex experience as you can get.
This is an archive of the famous-in-NZ pottery, Crown Lynn, which operated in the area until the 1980s. Great place to learn a little bit about NZ's design history.
Te Toi Uku - Crown Lynn & Clayworks Museum
8 Ambrico PlThis is an archive of the famous-in-NZ pottery, Crown Lynn, which operated in the area until the 1980s. Great place to learn a little bit about NZ's design history.
Everything Else
Avondale station
The nearest train station.
Shopping
2Cheap
3058 Great N RdThe local shopping mall, not wildly exciting but useful if you need anything!
The most idiosyncratic record store in all of Auckland; it's sometimes open, sometimes not! Occasionally they have gigs here.
Alien Records & CDs
11 Drury StThe most idiosyncratic record store in all of Auckland; it's sometimes open, sometimes not! Occasionally they have gigs here.
Drinks & Nightlife
The RSA is a great old fashioned pub and restaurant. Don't expect anything fashionable here, but that's its charm. If you're under 50, you probably won't find many people around your age here. Good value place for dinner!
Avondale Returned Services Assn (Inc)
48 Rosebank RdThe RSA is a great old fashioned pub and restaurant. Don't expect anything fashionable here, but that's its charm. If you're under 50, you probably won't find many people around your age here. Good value place for dinner!
Black Salt Bar & Eatery
Totara AvenueA decent bar, that also has quiz and comedy nights.
Parks & Nature
This was the park where a number of medal-winning runners trained (hence the name) and is still a good place for running now. There's also a sculpture trail and great children's playground.
7 locals recommend
Olympic Park
Portage RoadThis was the park where a number of medal-winning runners trained (hence the name) and is still a good place for running now. There's also a sculpture trail and great children's playground.