Hugo's Bistro

A fabulous evening with great food. No trouble to push out our reservation due to running a bit late thanks to Auckland transport woes. Friendly hosts. Great ambiance. Fantastic food. Our choices: duck, deer, flatbread with octopus. Moderately priced, good red wine. The perfect place to spend a cold evening with family. Prices compare well to other restaurants and nice to have something a bit different. Looking forward already to our next visit.

One of the best dining experiences we've had - better than most fine-dining as well. Outstanding service, the Maître d' was amazing, and perfectly interjected at the right times, made us feel welcome and perfectly recommended something for us to get started... The drinks were perfect, and we didn't even get to the wines! Amazing, and we'll be back again for sure, plenty of other menu options we wanted to try, so will be going back to try them all soon!

A consistently excellent inner city bistro for weekday eats, with super friendly reliable service from well-informed staff. If you ever can’t think of anywhere to go for dinner or a nice lunch, this is the place. Make sure to scroll to see the top notch parfait and the orange tart for dessert. A must have dish that I wait all year round for, is the venison. The whole fit out is very comfortable and perfect for colder and wetter days like these

Food: (10/10) Entrees: we had the anchovies & sourdough and duck liver parfait. Both were pretty good! The sourdough was so moist inside. Mains: Ricotta gnocchi was fabulous. The basil, Parmesan and gnocchi all together were heaven. The sauce is legit 10/10. Literally the BEST! The Wapiti was succulent and juicy. Dessert: we had the olive oil semifreddo but it tasted quite interesting. The ice cream was sweet but it didn’t balance out the acidity of the mandarin granita. Service: (10/10) Staff were super friendly and attentive!

From the moment we arrived and were cheerfully greated until the time we were thanked for visiting tonight's experience was stupendous. The Maitre d made us comfortable, laugh and reflect on the menu ingredients, the servers courteous and efficient, the course timings impeccable and the chef/s definately worked their magic to allow our palates to dance. We arrived wanting to try this year's Restaurant month menu and left promising we would return and send others along. Definately a place to make a local with an ever changing menu.

Impressive 2022 restaurant month menu, hard to pick our favourite dish out of 5 courses as they were all amazing! The dishes that stood out the most were the salad and dessert, the dessert - the citrucy semifreddo was sooooo delicious and perfect to end the night. Besides, the satff provided excellent service and were friendly and attentive, the restaurant ambience was great which enhanced the dining experience. Last but not least we really enjoyed the couch sitting at the back - perfect for couples who are on a date. We can't wait to go back and try the breakfast and lunch menu :)