One Tree Buffet is a buffet restaurant on Green Lane West in Greenlane, Auckland, where diners help themselves to a wide choice of dishes in a relaxed, casual setting. It holds a 4.6 rating on Google, reflecting consistently positive feedback from visitors. Menus and booking details are available on the restaurant's website.
On Greenlane West in Epsom, One Tree Buffet has made a name for itself by treating the all-you-can-eat format as something worth lingering over. Rather than a single line of chafing dishes, the restaurant spreads its feast across distinct stations: a raw seafood bar, sashimi and sushi counters, a teppanyaki grill, a build-your-own noodle station, an extensive lineup of hot dishes, and a dessert table that gives diners a reason to pace themselves. The kitchen describes its offering as thoughtfully prepared dishes with unlimited options, and the menu's breadth and regular refinement back that up.
The team is upfront that the buffet is continually refined and menu items may vary from time to time, so regulars are encouraged to check the current selections before booking. What stays consistent is the shape of the experience: dinner runs Wednesday to Sunday evenings, and on Sundays the restaurant also lays on a separate brunch buffet with its own menu.
Seafood anchors the dinner spread. The raw bar carries fresh Pacific oysters, Argentinian sweet prawns and New Zealand scampi, while the cooked seafood section answers with grilled salmon with red wine jus, baked mussels with garlic yum yum sauce and blue swimming crab stir-fried Chinese-style. Sashimi fans get New Zealand king salmon and tuna alongside a fish-of-the-day cut — trevally, snapper or kingfish depending on the market.
The sushi counter is just as serious, rolling salmon cream cheese rolls, California rolls, crab mayo and spicy tuna rolls, tempura maki and teriyaki chicken rolls, plus nigiri topped with king salmon, tuna or the day's fish, and a yasai tofu with yellow radish for vegetarians. A Japanese kani salad rounds out the cold section.
At the teppanyaki station, premium steaks, prawns, scallops and chicken are cooked to order, and the hot-food lineup stretches from Angus beef with mash potato — wagyu on weekends — to lamb chops, rendang beef, salt and chilli market fish, Peking duck, sweet and sour chicken, barbecue pork, ebi-fry and prawn miso pasta. Comforting options like steamed ginseng chicken soup, assorted dumplings, dim sum, sliders, pizza and fried rice keep every kind of eater happy.
The noodle station lets diners build their own bowl — ramen, rice or egg noodles in an OTB-style beef pho broth, with add-ons like quail eggs, crab stick, prawns and fish balls. Then comes dessert: soft serve in vanilla or mango, tiramisu in classic, mango and strawberry versions, Basque cheesecake, mango sago, Portuguese egg tarts, crème brûlée, soy latte mochi and puddings in matcha, coconut and mango. Birthday cakes can be pre-ordered for celebrations at the table.
Sunday brunch is its own event, running from midday with a menu entirely separate from dinner. Alongside teppanyaki favourites, dim sum, pizza and a noodle station offering pho beef or tonkatsu soup, brunch brings breakfast-leaning plates — bacon, pork manuka and sausages, hash brown triangles — plus calamari, stir-fried squid, seafood corn soup and a salad and bread table. Note that premium items such as oysters, king salmon and scampi appear at dinner only, so it pays to check which menu you are booking for.
With a maximum capacity of 100 guests, One Tree Buffet positions itself as a venue for birthdays, corporate events and family celebrations, offering exclusive hire with customised menus and packages across a range of price points. For everyday visits it is deliberately family-friendly: kids under four eat free, children aged four to twelve dine at half price, and diners aged 65 and over receive a discount, at both brunch and dinner.
Reservations matter here. Each table is allotted a set time, so guests are asked to arrive punctually and finish within their slot, and fees apply for no-shows and late cancellations. Groups of nine or more should email [email protected]; group bookings require a deposit, fully refundable with two weeks' notice. Drinks are not included in the buffet and are ordered separately from the drinks menu, and the restaurant closes on public holidays.
Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday evenings, with Sunday brunch from midday. Whether you come for the oysters, the teppanyaki grill or a custom noodle bowl, the idea is the same: take your time, work through the stations, and find your favourite.