What are the opening hours?

Monday 7am - 2:30pm Tuesday 7am - 2:30pm Wednesday 7am - 2:30pm 5:30pm - 9pm Thursday 7am - 2:30pm Friday 7am - 2:30pm Saturday 7am - 3pm 7:30pm - 9pm Sunday 8am - 2:30pm

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exquisite in the simple 🇮🇹

04/11/2026

Three days until the new brunch. This one is called the 'Nduja Scramble ('nduja: the soft, spicy Calabrian salami spread, poured over at the table).

Saturday 7 November. Semplice, St Heliers.

01/11/2026

A pancake that gets torched when you order it.

Crema catalana on a thick pancake, sugar on top, flame on the sugar. You crack it with the spoon.

The new brunch, Saturday 7 November. Semplice, St Heliers.

29/10/2026

Friday upstairs in St Heliers: the weekend loaves go to bed.

Shaped by hand, a night in the basket, and into the oven in the morning while you're still asleep. Your name goes on a bag, and you collect it Saturday or Sunday with your coffee, in St Heliers or Howick.

Order today at semplice.co.nz/sourdough.

29/10/2026

Rome has been eating these for breakfast for centuries. St Heliers gets them this weekend.

Soft brioche, mixed berry jam, a lot of cream, pistachio on the side. A cappuccino, a window seat, and nobody talks for a minute.

In the cabinet from this weekend. Try one, then come and tell us: should the maritozzo stay for the summer? Semplice, St Heliers.

28/10/2026

Pappardelle del Pastore. The plate people drive to St Heliers for, in nine seconds.
Lamb ragù on since the morning, wide ribbons made by hand, pecorino grated over at the very last second, and the fork does the rest.

Wednesday to Saturday from 5. Book through the link in bio.

27/10/2026

Nothing on the brunch menu is changing. Everything on the brunch menu is changing.

Your eggs are still your eggs. They just dressed up for summer. Warm 'nduja from a jug, a torch on the pancake, burrata torn by hand, and three new plates nobody in the Bay has seen yet.

Save the date. Saturday 7 November, St Heliers. Phones out.

23/10/2026

Pizza by the slice, in preview this long weekend, only at Semplice. From the bakery upstairs: baked in the tray the Roman way, cut with scissors, warmed while you wait. Capricciosa, Diavola, Zucchine e ricotta, Burrata e basilico. In the cabinet from 11am until they're gone.

15/10/2026

Friday upstairs in St Heliers. The weekend loaves are shaped by hand and tucked into their baskets, and they bake in the morning while you are still asleep.

Your name goes on a bag and you collect it Saturday or Sunday with your coffee, in St Heliers or Howick. Order today at semplice.co.nz/sourdough.

14/10/2026

Subin and I have been plotting. Burrata torn by hand onto grilled sourdough, fritters you'll want to photograph before you eat them, and a pancake we've remade more times than we'll admit. Brunch in St Heliers is about to go up a level.
New brunch menu, early November. Keep an eye out.
Semplice, St Heliers.

07/10/2026

Three years of Semplice.

Grazie to everyone who came on Sunday 27 September, when we opened the room on a night it is normally closed. And grazie to everyone who has sat at our tables in these three years, for a coffee in the morning or a long dinner at night. You are the reason we are still here, and we don't take it for granted. — Michelangelo

Address

8 Turua Street
Auckland
1071

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 2:30pm
Tuesday	7am - 2:30pm
Wednesday	7am - 2:30pm
	5:30pm - 9pm
Thursday	7am - 2:30pm
Friday	7am - 2:30pm
Saturday	7am - 3pm
	7:30pm - 9pm
Sunday	8am - 2:30pm

Website

https://semplice.co.nz/

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