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Wednesday 5:30pm - 10pm Thursday 5:30pm - 10pm Friday 5:30pm - 10pm Saturday 5:30pm - 10pm

Forest Restaurant

Name: Forest Restaurant
Address: 243 Dominion Road, Auckland, 1024, NZ
Telephone: +64 210 901 3352
Price range: $$

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We are a small vegetarian restaurant located at 177 Symonds Street, Eden Terrace.

We serve a 3 course set menu which changes weekly, based on seasonality and what we have preserved. We’re open from 6pm, Wednesday to Saturday, and prefer bookings because they help us prepare just the right amount of food. We believe that we have a responsibility to run our restaurant in a way that is respectful of our environment. As a means to lessen the impact we have on our climate, we source the majority of our ingredients as locally as possible, and aim to create as little waste as we can.

09/11/2026

Charred long pepper filled with cheesy garlic chive potatoes, peas, and an ajo blanco-ish sauce made with roasted almonds, garlic, vinegar, white beans and fried peppers. 🌶

03/11/2026

Golden syrup semifreddo, kalamata olive caramel, peanut choc whizz. 🥄 Like a frozen salty Snickers. 👅

02/11/2026

Open this week, closed next, back to regular programming from Nov 19th! See you soon. 😘

27/10/2026

Tangelo & juniper ice cream swirl, crispy tangelo peel sherbet and salted gin syrup. 🍊🌞
When Kate Underwood's mum Lindy gave us a load of homegrown Bay of Plenty tangelos, we knew we had to get them on the menu. Fruju Tropical Snow meets gin and tonic!

26/10/2026

Forest turns 7 today! 🎈
It's no easy thing keeping a restaurant alive, so thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us, from our rustic beginnings up until the present day.

P.s - it's been a while since I put my graphic design training to use so please don't look too closely at the following tiles... 😅🧡

Plabita

19/10/2026

Nasturtium harissa margs anyone? 🏵🌼🏵

13/10/2026

Tempura eggplant, charred eggplant skin seasoning, kawakawa sweet chilli, sour cream, chives, basil. 🍆🍟🌱

06/10/2026

Our spring blossom & strawberry ambrosia might not be on the menu much longer as our blossom supplies start to dwindle. 🥲 Whipped strawberry yoghurt, blossom marshmallows, young coconut custard and salted strawberry sherbet. Have you tried it yet? 👀🍓🌸

02/10/2026

Pickled potato salad, smoked cucumber tartare, capers, shallots, dill, and a pile of shredded iceberg spritzed with dill pickle juice and dusted with celery leaf salt. 🥬🥔⛰️
Made with new season perlas, boiled and cooled in a light bay leaf pickle brine so the seasoning goes all the way through. A Victor Flores trick from way back!

30/09/2026

Curry leaf chocolate mousse, toasted fenugreek honey, candied rice bubbles, sea salt. 🍫🔮
Basically we took our curry leaf ranch cos off the menu and turned into a ball of whipped chocolate instead. 🤠

28/09/2026

Baked onion w**d lasagne! Onion w**d bechamel, spinach, cheddar, marmite cream, asparagus, snow peas and lemon. 🫛🧀🍋👄

Onion w**d is a wild plant with small white flowers that you'll see popping up everywhere throughout spring. Also known as three-cornered garlic for its triangular stalks, it tastes like a fragrant mix of spring onion and garlic. 🧅🤝🧄

21/09/2026

Spring blossom & strawberry ambrosia, whipped strawberry yoghurt, blossom syrup-soaked marshmallows, young coconut custard, salted strawberry sherbet. 🌸🍓🌸🍓🌸

16/09/2026

Witloof tacos on the pass. 🥬🌮 A crisp chilled witloof leaf filled with a fried corn nugget, zesty lime mayo made with heaps of pithy skins, oregano, and crunchy pickled radishes and shallots. A nice hot/cold, fried/fresh, bitter/sour balance to get your meal started! 👅

Address

243 Dominion Road
Auckland
1024

Opening Hours

Wednesday	5:30pm - 10pm
Thursday	5:30pm - 10pm
Friday	5:30pm - 10pm
Saturday	5:30pm - 10pm

Telephone

+64 210 901 3352

Website

http://forestrestaurant.co.nz/

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