St. Lukes Roast is a chicken restaurant and roast shop at 2/55 Sainsbury Road, Mount Albert, Auckland, rated 4.0 from 92 Google reviews. Reviewers praise the generous portions, friendly owners and homemade pork and cabbage dumplings, though not every review is glowing.
A good roast shop stands or falls on timing: birds and joints come out of the oven in batches, so regulars ask when the next batch is due rather than settling for one that has sat under the heat lamp. Thigh meat is a safer bet than breast where juiciness matters, since it holds much better. The extras tell the rest of the story — proper gravy, stuffing, crackling — and a generous roast meal should stretch to a second sitting. In Auckland the boxed roast is a weekday institution: dinner for the family without heating the oven.
St. Lukes Roast on Sainsbury Road puts that kind of dinner within easy reach of Mount Albert.