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85-87 Custom Street West
Auckland Central, Auckland
- Dietary - Vegetarian Friendly Dietary - Vegan Friendly Dietary - Coeliac Friendly Dietary - Gluten Free Friendly
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Giraffe by Simon Gault
Auckland Central, Auckland
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12:00pm - 5:00pm,<br/> 6:00pm - 11:00pm
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12:00pm - 5:00pm,
- Dietary - Vegetarian Friendly Dietary - Vegan Friendly Dietary - Coeliac Friendly Dietary - Gluten Free Friendly
- Ocean Views Restaurant Month Family Friendly - Kids Menu Offers Early Bird Deals Beef & Lamb Excellence Award
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BEEF AND LAMB EXCELLENCE AWARDS Whenever you see the Excellence Awards logo or prestigious gold plate hanging on a restaurant wall, you can expect tasty, skillfully composed and superbly presented beef and lamb dishes.
Home grown is front and centre, showcasing the finest local producers and growers our country has to offer.
However, we're mature enough to recognise, that occasionally, the very best ingredients are from further afield.
The spirit of innovation is captured in the preparation and presentation of deliciousness.
We are uncompromising in our promise to surprise and delight every time.
Most importantly we make every guest feel at home.
Enjoy.Beef tendon crackers
Price: $9.00Natural oysters
Casanova
Sizes: each -$5.00
Duck liver bite
Eye fillet carpaccio
Sizes: per bite -$6.50
Smoked kahawai butter
Turmeric, garden crudites
Price: $14.00Eight mussels
Ginger-chipotle butter
Price: $12.00Westcoast whitebait rolls
Yuzu butter sauce
Price: $32.00Spinach salad
Beets, sunchokes, feta, pinoli
Price: $24.00Spanish ham
Burrata, melon, port
Price: $26.00Trevally crudo
Sour plum, marinated shiitake
Price: $28.00Cured salmon salad
Fennel, mandarin
Price: $26.00Steak tartare
Cured & smoked yolk, fermented rainbow radish
Price: $26.00Parmesan-potato soup
Truffle, mascarpone
Price: $21.00Waikanae crab
Tiger prawn, creme fraiche, jalapeno, waving bonito
Price: $32.00Staff chicken
Grape, lemon, capers
Price: $25.00Fillet of fish
Pickled radish & ginger, garden herbs
Price: $28.00Pinched ravioli
Milk-braised rabbit, salty sage tempura chip
Price: $32.00Pork & prawn wellington
Spicy kalet & cabbage salad
Price: $32.00Rib eye
Bone sauce, thyme, horseradish, truffled fried spud
Sizes: 100g -$14.00
Whole fish
Clams, spicy tomato salsa (ideal for 2 people) Availability is subject to fishing weather
Price: $72.00Kids tv dinner
(Ideal for 1 child)
Price: $28.00Suckling pig
Roast vegetables, sherry sauce (Ideal for 4 people)
Price: $240.00Roast chicken
Mexican style, smoked pepper potatoes (Ideal for 2 people)
Price: $54.00Shoulder of lamb
Horseradish gremolata, semi-dried tomato, horopito (Ideal for 2 people)
Price: $56.00Sirloin
Mushroom, hazelnut, buffalo salsa verde butter (Ideal for 2 people)
Price: $66.00Triple-cooked potatoes
Pancetta
Price: $15.00Smoked pepper potatoes
Goat cheese
Price: $12.00Giraffe cauliflower
Hazelnut
Price: $12.00Creamed spinach
Pearl barley
Price: $12.00Brassica salad
Walnut picada
Price: $12.00Rocket salad
Manchego
Price: $12.00Powered by OpenMenu
Professional Reviews: Giraffe by Simon Gault
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Restaurant review: Giraffe
Cuisine 6 September 2018The viaduct on a sultry Friday evening is booming with baby boomers. Most restaurants and bars are packed. Giraffe, the latest venture by everyone’s favourite Masterchef judge Simon Gault, is no exception.
The old Mecca site is an awkward triangular space with an intersecting passageway to The Sebel. Yet it feels warm and comforting, elegant yet restrained. The open kitchen and wide bar area make the place bustle, while brass handrails and a spectacular curved bar-side table give a slightly nautical nod. And because it’s a Paul Izzard design it’s polished with an understated opulence.
Restaurant review: Giraffe, Auckland CBD
4.0 New Zealand Herald 19 August 2017I checked the bill. I paid the bill. They were still kissing. I was glad I'd finished eating.
Just before chef Simon Gault opened this restaurant, he told the Herald he wanted patrons to feel like they were in someone's home. I think he probably meant the dining room, not the bedroom, but it's the Viaduct, right? Loud and lurid, loose and louche. Anything (and anyone) goes.
In fact, Gault is hedging his bets. Because while his menu rewards hedonists (the "social feasts" sometimes run to an entire baby pig) you can also bring your children here for a $28 kids' TV dinner (two types of chips, two types of pasta and a treat on a tray).
Restaurant review: Giraffe, Auckland CBD
4.0 New Zealand Herald 23 July 2017In my student days, when I worked in the original Tony's as a kitchenhand, the eponymous Mr White would grudgingly allow us a small bowl of spaghetti at 5pm. His brother, David, who was in charge on Sundays, asked us to pick out the best steak we could find and cooked it for us, perfectly. Guess which Mr White we went the extra mile for when the going got tough around 9pm?
Perhaps Simon Gault had a similar experience once, because at Giraffe, if you show up before 6, they ask you to wait while the staff finish their dinner. It's a nice touch, I think, and it reassures diners that they are in a place where the boss wants the workers to be happy because happy workers produce happy diners.
Restaurant Review: Giraffe, Viaduct
5.0 Viva 5 July 2017Did you ever have one of those moments when you know you’ve married the right person? Early on at Giraffe a waiter came over with two flutes of Nautilus cuvee, gave one of them to me and dropped the other one into my wife’s lap.
And at the crucial moment, as the glass tipped irretrievably past the 45 degree mark and the pale straw coloured liquid began to spill out and over her beloved light grey Juliette Hogan coat, my wife caught my eye with an expression only I would ever be able to interpret. The expression said “Yoink. This one will be free”.
Simon Gault's New Restaurant Giraffe
Viva 7 June 2017Giraffe, the curious name of Simon Gault's new Viaduct eatery, came from a source dear to the top restaurateur's heart — his 3½-year-old daughter Hazel.
It fits perfectly, he says, in terms of the way he's approached the changing habits of his guests by opening up the kitchen so patrons feel as if they're eating at someone's home.
"Everything is in full view and transparent — a 'giraffe's-eye' view, if you like. By doing this, the diners feel connected to the chefs, the kitchen and the food itself," he says.
"We’ll welcome and treat them like they are guests in our house, get to know them and look after them."
The new all-day eatery, which opens next Thursday, June 15, marks Simon's return to the Viaduct following a two-year hiatus.
Its menu will be made up of smaller dishes and shared plates that will feature premium ingredients sourced from producers and growers the kitchen team knows personally and with whom it plans to build long-term relationships.
Simon Gault's New Restaurant Giraffe
Viva 7 June 2015Giraffe, the curious name of Simon Gault's new Viaduct eatery, came from a source dear to the top restaurateur's heart — his 3½-year-old daughter Hazel.
It fits perfectly, he says, in terms of the way he's approached the changing habits of his guests by opening up the kitchen so patrons feel as if they're eating at someone's home.
"Everything is in full view and transparent — a 'giraffe's-eye' view, if you like. By doing this, the diners feel connected to the chefs, the kitchen and the food itself," he says.
Trip Advisor Reviews: Giraffe by Simon Gault
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2018 Critics Choice - Runners Up received @ 1 January 2018 For the inaugural Restaurant Hub’s Critics’ Choice Awards, New Zealand Herald restaurant critics Jesse Mulligan, an Editor from Viva, and Kim Knight, a Restaurant Critic from Canvas considered their favorite dining experiences of 2017 and picked their respective top five restaurants, including their overall winners. The Runner-up Award was presented to the 4 out of their top 5 restaurant dining experiences from 2017 that weren't selected as overall winners.
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Beef and Lamb Excellence Award received @ 13 September 2018 The restaurants who currently hold the 2018 Excellence Award have not been compared with each other in the assessment process. Rather, they have been judged on their individual merits and style of cuisine. So, whenever you see the prestigious gold plate hanging on a restaurant wall, you can expect tasty, skillfully composed and superbly presented beef and lamb dishes. So take the guess work out of deciding where to dine and check out our restaurant directory to visit a restaurant near you serving exceptionally well executed and delicious beef and lamb dishes.
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