Saturday Drinks & Lunch- Queens Rooftop Bar & Wineshop

Rooftop drinks and lunch recommended by one of our regulars. I have booked an indoor table.

From Cuisine magazine.

Located on the 21st floor of 1 Queen Street, Queens Rooftop is accessible via a tiny, inconspicuous wine shop off Te Komititanga Square. Once you are past the friendly security guard and an attendant in a headset who will summon the lift, you’ll be ushered to floor 21 where the sexy chaos has you feeling like you are part of a club that seamlessly hosts the 11am brunchers, the power lunchers, the influencers and corporate gurus, right through to the nightcappers.

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The new-season menu at this clever rooftop continues a play on global favourites by chef Maia Atvars, with grilled Hawke’s Bay lamb chops, garlic toum sauce and minted pea zhoug bringing the flavours of New Zealand’s spring and summer to the fore. The jumbo prawn and octopus salad with white balsamic, grilled baguette and saffron aioli is a highlight, with the seafood cooked seriously well and folded through flavours and textures that could, but do not, overpower. The chef’s nod to the recent return to favour of the Baked Alaska is with white chocolate ice cream, cherry compote and Italian meringue. Specially monogrammed ice makes the drinks feel special and the dirty margaritas are spectacular.

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