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Amano restaurant review: Metro Top 50 2019

Amano is Metro Peugeot's Restaurant of the Year 2019 Best All-Day Restaurant and our runner up for Best Chef.

Amano restaurant review: Metro Top 50 2019

Apr 30, 2019 Restaurants

Amano is the Metro Peugeot Restaurant of the Year 2019 Best All-Day Restaurant and our runner up for Best Chef. To see a full rundown of all our winners, click here

In the two years since it opened, Amano has become the jewel in the Hip Group crown. The rustic, stripped-back waterfront warehouse, balanced by beautiful marble and hanging gardens of dried flowers, is full and bustling for breakfast, lunch and dinner, seven days a week (not to mention its bakery serving fresh bread and takeaway salads and sandwiches). Focussing on a distinctly local version of modern Italian cuisine, the ultra-seasonal menu is updated (at least) once a day. Seafood features heavily in its best dishes but Amano also excels at carbohydrates – the bread and pasta, both made on-site, are among the best Auckland has to offer. The drinks list follows suit, with pitch-perfect wines from Italy and New Zealand, and a tempting array of seasonal, fruit-driven cocktails.

 

What it offers: Shared-plate options / Good for vegetarians / Takes large bookings

A favourite dish: Smoked line-caught warehou tagliatelle with mustard and butter crumb

Awards
Winner, Best All-Day Restaurant
Runner-up, Best Chef: Jo Pearson
Finalist, Supreme Award
Finalist, Best Wine

Hours: Breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days
Bookings: Yes
Price: $$
Chef: Jo Pearson, executive chef; Andrew Hanson, head chef

BRITOMART
66-68 Tyler Street
Britomart
Ph 394-1416
amano.nz

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