Mr. Morris

I had an amazing dinner at Mr. Morris with my bestie to celebrate my birthday last night. The staff were welcoming and friendly. We ordered kitchen experience tasting menu. From the snacks to the dessert, every dish was tasty and well presented. Can’t recommend it enough!

We flew to Aukland for a night from Australia to have a birthday dinner and decided to dine at Mr Morris on recommendation from Trip Advisor forums. The experience was faultless. Sitting at the chefs table watching the food artistry in motion then indulging in the delightful flavours, we would highly recommend Mr Morris for dining pleasures.

Fantastic! We had the tasting menu and it was outstanding. The pork collar was exceptional. Also the service was great, very attentive and friendly.
It is definitely a special occasion place price wise but the atmosphere was relaxed and comfortable.

After a long day travelling from Sydney, we were excited for our anniversary dinner and it met our every expectation and more. The staff made us feel welcome and our waitress had a great knowledge of the menu and helped us make our choices – it all sounded wonderful! The meal was absolutely delicious and they have a great wine list and again we got great advice for wine to pair with our meal. Beautiful modern NZ cuisine, fabulous service & a great space. Thankyou Mr Morris – we’ll be back next time we are in Auckland

First of all, nice things about Mr. Morris. We loved the food, we thought the freshness and execution was masterful and creative. We loved almost everything. The entrees King Fish and Qual were excellent, the mains Snapper and Scotch were even better which is a winner as most restaurants do entrees well but always a let down on their mains but not here.

For the sides, we also loved the Brussels Sprouts but we didn’t like the Kumera at all. I didn’t think I would like it as I thought the Sherry would be too much for the sweetness of kumera. But my partner insisted because he loves kumera. So even he didn’t like this dish and I was giving him “told you so” moments!. The completely unrecognisable crunchy bits also didn’t work with us. We both had a small piece and left the dish uneaten. When the waitress collected the dish she didn’t say a word about the dish but asked if we would like to doggy bag the dish. 😂

We were quite annoyed right away after being greeted by the staff. The music and the diners were so loud it seemed everyone was shouting inside. Not a scene we wanted to be in. Here we thought we were going for a nice experience. Wrong!

The night didn’t get better as the service was really poor. The staff were all young and inexperienced. We constantly had to wave down someone to take our orders. They basically just come and take our food orders. Forgot to come back to take our drinks order. Delivered our food and drinks and that’s it. No personal touches, when they spoke, the noise was so loud nobody can hear anything!

When we were standing at the counter settling our bills. The young girl who had been serving us walked right passed us, she didn’t even stop and say goodbye. I can’t believe this is the service of what supposed to be the hospitality icon of Auckland. It’s trying to be the coolest place in town by playing loud electronic music but it’s obviously not as it was Friday night an at only 8.30pm, the restaurant was only half full, not that busy.

A really disappointing experience for us. Luckily the quality of food saved them. By 9.30pm as we were leaving, most customers had already left.