Where To Eat Near NZ Fashion Week: 7 Restaurants A Short Walk From Shed 10, As Recommended By Viva

Need sustenance between runway shows? Pick one of these highly recommended restaurants.When taking in the action at NZ Fashion Week: Kahuria this week, one cannot live on canapés and champagne alone. On-site food has levelled up this year, thanks to NZFW’s partnership with Daily Bread. You’ll find a But if you want to wander further into the city, these restaurants are all less than a 12-minute walk from Shed 10, and all come previously recommended by Viva Dining Out editor Jesse Mulligan. Supporting the local hospitality industry, while you’re supporting the local fashion industry? Win-win. Ahi Walk from Shed 10: 3 minutesCuisine: Modern Fine DiningAddress: Level 2, Commercial Bay, 7 Queen St, central city, 022 524 4255, ahirestaurant.co.nz Jesse said: Ahi isn’t a generic business with a famous owner [Ben Bayly], it’s a wonderful, wonderful restaurant where the head chef is unmistakably the same guy who, [15] years ago, created food so incredible you couldn’t get into The Grove unless you booked weeks ahead. The food at Ahi tastes as good as it looks, and it looks perfect.The Anchovy tostadas on the menu at Alma restaurant in Britomart. Photo / Babiche MartensAlma Walk from Shed 10: 5 minutes Cuisine: Spanish Address: 130 Quay St, central city, 09 242 1570, alma.nz Jesse said: [Alma has] become a byword for perfection. One of the loveliest things about dining here is the approach. I don’t know whether it’s they or the Britomart people who have strung fairy lights around the tree trunks but it’s a beautiful touch, and with the full tables of chatty diners stretched along the pavement, it creates a scene of glowing revelry visible long before you get anywhere near the place. The mixed seafood platter at French restaurant Origine in Commercial Bay. Photo / Babiche MartensOrigine Walk from Shed 10: 5 minutes Cuisine: French Address: Commercial Bay, 2/172 Quay St, central city, 027 674 4463, origine.nz Jesse said: The ultimate New Zealand compliment, “it feels like you’re not in Auckland”, really applies when you first walk in, though if you get a seat by the front window and start to notice the rhythm of the ferries coming and going across our beautiful oceanic front yard, you realise you actually couldn’t be anywhere else. Queens Rooftop is the restaurant with some of the best views in Auckland. Photo / SuppliedQueens RooftopWalk from Shed 10: 4 minutesCuisine: Bistro (a new menu launched this winter, including a tuna niçoise salad, coastal bisque, braised beef collar with parsnip puree, mushroom XO and chili crunch, with a new cocktail menu, too.)Address: Level 21/1 Queen Street, central city, 021 161 8430, queensrooftop.co.nzJesse said: This is a gobsmackingly great space — a space so magnificent that when you step out of the elevator and look around, you immediately start thinking about who you could bring with you next time.Gareth Stewart, partner chef at Advieh, a restaurant in the InterContinental Auckland.AdviehWalk from Shed 10: 3 minutes Cuisine: Middle Eastern/GreekAddress: 1 Queen St, central city, 09 304 0040, adviehrestaurant.comJesse said: This is insanely good food, served with warmth and energy by a charismatic team of waiters. Even at the best places, most weeks I finish a meal and am finished with the restaurant. Walking out of Advieh, I couldn’t wait to go back.Bistro Saine in Hotel Indigo. Bistro SaineWalk from Shed 10: 11 minutesCuisine: Bistro Address: Hotel Indigo, 51 Albert St, central city, 09 610 8404, bistrosaine.co.nzJesse said: What sort of food critic orders roast chicken? Honestly, I know Anthony Bourdain forbade it but sometimes you’re in the mood to eat it – and it’s now rarer than any other meat protein on serious Auckland menus so it feels like a treat. At Bistro Saine it is fantastic, served without bones on a bed of chewable barley risotto with cubes of sweet pumpkin. It’s finished with sage and a thin roasty gravy and the meat itself is so browned and crunchy it’s like they seared it with a hot brick.The tiramisu, the vongole, culurgiones and the saltimbocca on the menu at Italian restaurant Bossi. Photo / Babiche MartensBossiWalk from Shed 10: 7 minutes Cuisine: ItalianAddress: 10 Commerce St, central city, 09 948 0906, bossi.co.nzJesse said: Bossi is the restaurant Auckland has been missing. Fancy but friendly, precise but unfussy, it offers a menu of regional favourites from no region in particular. You will eat dishes you’ve never heard of here, alongside better versions of dishes you thought you knew.Night Car bar and restaurant. Photo / Babiche MartensNeed a post-show cocktail? Kemuri Hi-Fi – 4-minute walk The Night Car - 6-minute walkTruth or Dare Bar – 6-minute walk Soul Bar & Bistro – 7-minute walk Somm Wine Bar & Bistro – 8-minute walk Curio Bar (formerly Little Culprit) – 10-minute walkThe Halligan - 11-minute walk This story was first published in August 2025 and has been updatedMore to savourFrom bold new concepts to must-visit favourites