Ranking Auckland

Welcome to this brand new series, where we are trying to find the best of Auckland's Iconic Eats for the list for 2026!  Just to be clear, this is a recurring series, meaning it will not be posted every 2 weeks, there will be new parts out roughly once each month. Also this will not rank every single Iconic Eat, just the ones that sounded the most interesting/delicious to us, but feel free to share your opinions in the comments! So first off, what is an Iconic Eat? For the purpose of this series, we will be using the Auckland Iconic Eats 2026 list ( click here! ), which includes 100 dishes from eateries all over the region. All foods ranked in this series will be from this list, however to once again clarify, not every dish from this list will be ranked, just the ones the piqued our interest. Each Iconic Eat will be ranked on 4 criteria. The first is Creativity, focusing on how unique the dish is. The second is pretty obvious, Taste, do we like it? Does it actually taste nice? The ...

Welcome to the third and final part of this series, where I am trying to find the best mall in Auckland! This part features all malls on the Auckland Central Isthmus (east of New Lynn), meaning there are 10 malls featured in this part. For Part 1 (North & West) click here , and for Part 2 (South & East) click here . As well as ranking the 10 malls in Central Auckland, there will also be an overall ranking of all malls in Auckland at the end, to see which truly is the best. To quickly recap, for the purpose of this series, a mall is any enclosed, commercial building or complex with multiple stores and food outlets, a shared parking area, and an anchor tenant. Using this definition means it is fair to compare all malls on the four categories of, Transport, Variety, Atmosphere, and Facilities. For each category a mall is given a score out of 5, which contributes towards its overall score out of 20.  Please note that some malls may rank higher than others with higher scores out...