Amy @ My Dining Journey
+5
With one set menu designed for the season and talented chefs using various techniques such as cooking with wood-fire, fermentation, dry-aging and cheese making, your meal at Pasture is one of its kind. The restaurant only seat 6 and takes two seating times at 5:45PM and 8:15PM. Instead of seating at secluded tables hidden in the dining room, you’re in the middle of it all at the Chef’s Counter where you can directly engage with the kitchen.
Booking a table pre-COVID has always been a hard task with the weekends being taken up as soon as bookings become available. We managed to get a table as soon as they started taking reservations under level one - Understandable as this award winning restaurant is well praised in the dining community (3 Hats in Cuisine, 2019 Metro Restaurant of the Year, Best Chef & Fine Dining Restaurant)
My meal at Pasture last Sunday was exceptional. We paired our meal with a non-alcoholic pairing and was thrilled at the creative choices of matches of beverage to dish. Each dish is surprising and innovative, creative with attention to detail. Watching the chefs elegantly assemble and prepare your meal right in front of you is a real treat.
If you have any dietary requirements, this might not be suitable for you. I haven’t eaten a banana in 20 years and have managed to avoid red meat for the last 6 months. This changed last night and I have no regrets. The set menu also sets you back $250 and the non-alcoholic pairing is another $70 per person. It’s not a cheap meal.
Do I love and recommend it? Yes!
Would I be back next season when the menu change? When my wallet recovers
One of my best food experience so far. A great team, great products and innovative way to cook. If I wasn’t leaving on the other side of the world. I would love to try every new menu to discover with which new idea the team at Pasture came.
New Zealand’s fine dining scene has come a long way. When I grew up in Auckland circa late 80’s – early 90’s, haute cuisine meant the local Chinese restaurant (and honestly, we weren’t complaining). Fast forward to 2020 and Auckland boasts a chef’s counter restaurant extraordinaire with a mere six seats per sitting, accommodating a total of just 60 fortunate diners per week…that restaurant is Parnell’s Pasture.
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