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The Taste Thai

Restaurant Meal takeaway Thai restaurant

👍👍 Delicious! Highly recommended! Well made, good ingredients! I had the Green Thai Curry hot 🔥 it was delightful! Thanks! People often mention Thai, order, time,


Address

3/67 Lake Road, Devonport, Auckland 0624, New Zealand

Website

www.thetaste.co.nz

Contact

+64 9 445 9699

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (215 reviews)

Open on Google Maps

Working Hours

  • Sunday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Monday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Tuesday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Wednesday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Thursday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Friday: 5 to 9 pm
  • Saturday: 5 to 9 pm

Featured Reviews


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  • 5/5 Marbs C. 2 years ago on Google
    Delicious! Highly recommended! Well made, good ingredients! I had the Green Thai Curry hot 🔥 it was delightful! Thanks!
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 seankaum01 2 years ago on Google
    The best Thai food I've had in a very long time. Full of flavour. Great balance of sweet, sour & salty. The best massaman lamb curry I've tasted in a long time. The ingredients taste fresh. The duck melted in your mouth. Curry puffs were perfection. This is definitely my new go to.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Jeffrey L. 11 months ago on Google
    Totally swamped with orders and chaoticly out of control. Waits of three quarter of an hour on pre ordered food. Counter staff had no ldea what was going on but too their credit, remained calm. Food(when it arrived) was OK
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Devo B. 1 year ago on Google
    Ordered Mother’s Day dinner via Uber eats. Order still hadn’t arrived after 2 hours with the restaurant phone out of order. After I queried the driver he said the place was too busy and he had no confidence the delivery would ever happen. Then Uber cancelled the order citing a problem. Ruined Mother’s Day dinner for our family.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Lyma K. 5 months ago on Google
    This used to be my go to Thai place for over a year. Unfortunately, the prices were increased and the quality went down significantly. The curries used to be creamy, full of veggies and flavour. Now they are a just watery mess. The "red" curry is really runny and just like very watery milk with some red spots of oil on the surface. The flavour not nearly as lovely and complex. It's a shame as I used to love this place and now will need to find a new go-to Thai place in the area.

  • 5/5 Geoff L. 6 months ago on Google
    They serve real authentic Thai food here! Very friendly hosts, above par customer service! Price is reasonable and the place has great dining atmosphere! Highly recommended to all.

  • 3/5 Janelle B. 11 months ago on Google
    I opted for delivery, which added an hour to the wait time (I live 5 mins away). I tried calling to change this but the phone doesn’t seem to be connected. Very frustrating. Food was amazing as usual, will not be opting for delivery again.

  • 1/5 Charlene W. 11 months ago on Google
    Hi, I have been calling your restaurant since my food was delivered tonight but your phone is off the hook it seems. Says line busy but been trying for over half hour. Last time I made an order which was over $50 it was meant to come with rice an essential part of the order, I even called to make sure it was part of the order, when delivered their was no rice, when I complained they told me to pick it up I said no we paid delivery then they got an uber to bring some back. We ordered again tonight, I was worried from last time but thought hey should be fine, even left a note to remind them once again like I did last time but that was a phone call, again no rice! I am calling to get it delivered again but no answer for 40 minutes since delivered at 7:50pm. Am super disappointed you have done this again and not even answering to have someone to sort out the problem.

  • 5/5 Sarah 9 months ago on Google
    I've been wanting to try The Taste for 2 years now and finally had the opportunity last night. Haven't been able to come across any other Thai takeaway remotely near where I live (Hibiscus Coast) that uses free range chicken. They will make your food to the spiciness level you want and if you ask for spicy, they will actually give you spicy-a lot of other places I have to ask for spicier than I want because they don't believe me when I say I want it spicy! Last night I was in the area with a friend so we had takeaway but next time we will probably make the trip and stay to eat in.

  • 1/5 Pete W. 1 year ago on Google
    If you say “closes at 9” then you should close at 9. Tried to order at 8.30 online on a Fri night and it wouldn’t let me after putting in my order. Tried phoning and was hung up on by a rude girl. What a joke

  • 5/5 Warren A. 1 year ago on Google
    Love the Pad Thai the most, all menu items are excellent.

  • 2/5 Diddly S. 1 year ago on Google
    Used to be excellent; delicate flavours and authentic Thai. Recently chicken and cashew sauce was thick and just salty in taste, chicken fried rice was completely tasteless and spring rolls were given just a tiny bit of sweet chilli sauce. Disappointing.

  • 4/5 J B. 1 year ago on Google
    This is some of the best quality Thai takeaway you will get. A little pricier than most and wait times can blow out during peak periods, due to demand. But it is definately a step above your usual Thai takeaway.

  • 5/5 Serena T. 1 year ago on Google
    So good. We tried the pad Thai. Just moved around the corner so gave all our local takeaways a try. They have a cool points key tag system. With app. Pretty cool. Check them out.

  • 5/5 G-VAI Production F. 4 years ago on Google
    Awesome the taste of Thai, staff very friendly and helpful with good service, yummy thai food.

  • 5/5 Nicola W. 1 year ago on Google
    Have had many takeaways from this restaurant. Food is always of the highest quality, free range meats and lots of vegetables. Have introduced to several friends who all say this is the best Thai in the area

  • 5/5 Jason Y. 3 years ago on Google
    Great food, a few of us started going during the L3 lockdown and it became a regular, since it was only a stones throw from Narrowneck Beach.

  • 1/5 Rebecca H. 1 year ago on Google
    What a shame , hear the food is really good but waited two hours and still my order was in the queue like the other 20 or so people waiting .! Those poor front of house girls were doing their best , time to get your system organised or people will have had enough .

  • 4/5 Lisa S. 1 year ago on Google
    Amazing food, but the heat for mild to medium, blew our heads off. Will definitely order again but mild or no heat from now on. My mouth is still burning 🤣

  • 3/5 Sierra 1 year ago on Google
    Our Pad Thai tasted good but has to be the sweetest I ever had, to the point of getting a sugar headache. Dinner and dessert in one!

  • 2/5 Dave 1 year ago on Google
    Have used this place four or five times over the last year or so but no more. The food is average, maybe 3 star, but they are almost always longer than they say they will be and you have to wait for your order. Not just 10 mins either. Tonight was over 30 min wait after the time we were told, and we ordered online over an hour before that! I feel sorry for the poor counter staff that have to front this shambles. hours


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Amenities


  • Payments
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✗ Wheelchair-accessible seating
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Delivery
    • ✓️ Takeaway

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