Flying Rickshaw Indian Eatery on Victoria Road in Devonport, Auckland greets you with 'Sat Sri Akal, kia ora and welcome' — a blend of Punjabi hospitality and a local hello. Behind it is a kitchen with a simple, stated philosophy: honest food, simply done.
Everything is made from scratch, every day. Warming spices are pounded and roasted in-house, and secret masalas are firmly rubbed into fresh meats, seafood and healthy vegetables. A zesty jolt of lime and a taming raita finish things off, building what the team calls layer after layer of mouthwatering, mystical flavour. Fresh local produce and ingredients are used wherever possible.
Dine in — the eatery invites you to book your table — or order Indian takeaway for Click & Collect or Delivery through ordermeal.co.nz. Find Flying Rickshaw at 97 Victoria Rd, Devonport; call +64 9-445 7721 or email [email protected].
Flying Rickshaw Indian Eatery brings warmth, colour and serious spice to Victoria Road in Devonport, Auckland. The welcome tells you where you are before you have even looked at a menu: 'Sat Sri Akal, kia ora and welcome' — a line that folds Punjabi hospitality and a Kiwi greeting into a single breath, and sets the tone for a kitchen where two food cultures sit comfortably side by side.
Two words do a lot of heavy lifting on the Flying Rickshaw website: honest, simple. Honest in the sense of real ingredients and cooking with nothing to hide; simple in the sense of food that lets its spices speak instead of burying them under fuss. It is a quietly confident pitch for a local eatery, and the kitchen backs it up with method — everything starts from scratch, every day.
Every day in the kitchen, the team — the 'gurus', as the site affectionately calls them — bring their razzmatazz. Warming spices are pounded and roasted from scratch, releasing what the website happily calls addictive flavours and seductive aromas for your delight. It is the old-school way of building an Indian kitchen's foundations.
What does from-scratch mean in practice? Spices are handled fresh, roasted to wake them up, and combined into the house's own masala blends — the 'secret' part of secret masala. Those blends are firmly rubbed into fresh meats, seafood and healthy vegetables, so the seasoning runs through the dish instead of sitting on the surface. Finishing touches do the balancing act: a zesty jolt of lime to lift things, a taming raita to cool them, and what the site describes as layer after layer after layer of mouthwatering, mystical flavour.
The spice work is matched by care over ingredients. Flying Rickshaw is upfront about using fresh local produce and ingredients — as many as possible, in its own words. The cooking stretches across fresh meats, seafood and vegetables, so the table is a broad one: hearty plates for big appetites, lighter vegetable cooking for those who want it, and seafood for something from the sea.
There are three easy ways to enjoy the food. For a sit-down meal, the website invites you to book your table — a quick call to +64 9-445 7721 sorts that out. If you would rather eat at home, both Click & Collect and Delivery are available through Flying Rickshaw's page on ordermeal.co.nz, which makes it a straightforward Indian takeaway option for Devonport locals and visitors alike. Order ahead for pickup, or have dinner arrive at the door.
You will find Flying Rickshaw at 97 Victoria Road, Devonport, Auckland 0624 — right on the village's main street, easy to pair with a wander around Devonport before or after your meal.
Questions about the food, a group booking or a special request? Phone +64 9-445 7721 or email [email protected] and the team will help you plan.
Come hungry and come curious. This is Indian food made the patient way — spices roasted, masalas rubbed in, flavours built layer on layer — served with a welcome that spans two hemispheres. Whether you are a Devonport regular or catching the ferry over for the day, it is an easy stop: honest, simple cooking, done with plenty of razzmatazz where it counts — in the pan.