Depot Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
The read// why locals go
Al Brown's Depot has anchored Auckland's Federal Street since it opened, and its formula has been copied across New Zealand ever since. Small shared plates, a shucking station turning out oysters and clams to order, wood-fired cooking, and no bookings. You put your name down and wait at the bar. Around NZD 35 a head covers a decent spread. The room is loud, communal and deliberately unpolished, and the kitchen's argument is that New Zealand's raw material — the seafood especially — needs very little done to it. Come early or come late; the middle of the evening is a scrum.
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86 Federal Street, 1010 — Auckland
The read// why locals go
Al Brown's Depot has anchored Auckland's Federal Street since it opened, and its formula has been copied across New Zealand ever since. Small shared plates, a shucking station turning out oysters and clams to order, wood-fired cooking, and no bookings. You put your name down and wait at the bar. Around NZD 35 a head covers a decent spread. The room is loud, communal and deliberately unpolished, and the kitchen's argument is that New Zealand's raw material — the seafood especially — needs very little done to it. Come early or come late; the middle of the evening is a scrum.
