Tanuki's Cave

"I would not highly recommend this place. We ordered a mushroom and leek and it came with you guessed it ONE single white button shroom cut into 4 pieces and put onto 2 sticks? I'm a bit confused on how this was a $6.50 dish, so I was a bit shocked and confused but it set me up for the rest of the meals which were also very tiny and pricey, it would be good if this was a restaurant but for a bar that barely has anything going on, and frankly quite boring, extremely expensive and not worth it, I would give it a lower review but the food wasn't bad but definitely not worth the money for me today, drinks felt on the weak side! Didn't expect them to taste watered down especially for a 14% alcoholic drink such as Plum wine. It was ok but I was quite dissapointed in my experience sorry"

"Visited the cave before our dinner booking at Tanuki restaurant. Place was humming, managed to get a standing side table near the wall. Great atmosphere and fantastic experience before our dinner reservation."

"A must try in Auckland. It feels like a tucked away yakitori bar in Japan, from the entrance, the atmosphere and the food. The skewers are great and I'm not one to like cheese stuffed foods but the chicken mince ball and others are great here. Other recommendations would be the wings, yakitori and the steak. Best spot is to sit at the bar but there's plenty of other seats around. The price is decent and in my opinion, worth the price per skewers. Ended up spending around $100 a head most recently."

"My friend and I went on a Thursday night, you know it's a great restaurant if it's packed even on a weekday. It's one of the hidden gems of Auckland. We ordered quite a variety from the menu and everything was delicious. My friend did make a mistake on ordering the mushroom with minced coated with breadcrumbs instead of the yakitori mushroom with minced so it wasn't what we expected but overall good taste. Loved the dessert especially. Highly recommended and will definitely return!"

"WOW! The food, the service, and the atmosphere; everything was amazing. The scotch fillet with butter was the best part as well as the legend 22 sake. The jelly sake was super yummy (it's basically alcoholic aloe vera drink). Highly recommend coming here but just watch how much you order as it adds up very quickly!"