Odettes Eatery is an all-day Mediterranean-influenced restaurant in the heart of Auckland's city centre, inside City Works Depot on Wellesley Street West. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner in a relaxed, stylish dining room with a bar. The space has finishings by Auckland designers Simon James Design and Nat Cheshire for Resident.
The menu changes with the seasons. It draws on Mediterranean flavours, with Levantine and African spices and some global influences. Breakfast might be a Dutch baby with pecan crunch, pear and cinnamon sugar, a menemen of chilli scrambled eggs with tomato ragu and pecorino, or a halloumi scramble with broccolini and date chutney. The Odettes Complete brings two eggs with heirloom tomato, avocado, bacon and whipped feta on sourdough. Lunch and dinner plates include smoked fish rillettes, burnt eggplant with citrus tahini, roast pork belly with Black Doris plum and wholegrain mustard, and braised lamb shoulder with chilli, date, salsa verde and labneh. A menu is available Monday to Friday from 12pm to 3pm.
Chef Jonah was born in Taiwan, came to New Zealand at ten and began working in kitchens at seventeen. He has cooked at Iguacu, Everybody's and Imperial Lane in Auckland, and spent time honing his craft in Japan. He applies modern techniques to classic dishes and builds the menu around seasonal harvests and local suppliers. Poi Eruera, operations manager, looks after Odettes and its sibling restaurant Hugo's Bistro on Auckland's Shortland Street.
Credit card and Paywave payments carry a 1.7% surcharge (as at 2026). Please tell your waiter about any allergies before ordering, as trace elements cannot be fully ruled out.
Our pick for a slow brunch in the city centre.