Royal Indian Cuisine Royal Pizza Mangere brings two much-loved menus together on Gadsby Road in Favona, Auckland: a kitchen devoted to traditional Indian flavours and warm hospitality, and a pizza operation turning out the Indian-style pizzas the Royal kitchens are known for. It is the Mangere branch of a small Auckland restaurant family that also includes Royal Indian Cuisine Pakuranga in Farm Cove.
The menu covers plenty of ground. Pizzas run from the classics — Margherita and Pepperoni — to inventive house creations like the Moroccan Lamb, built on a Moroccan base sauce with seasoned lamb mince, a medley of fresh vegetables and a ranch sauce swirl, alongside the seafood-leaning Salmon Lovers. Around the pizza there are loaded nachos, sides and rolls such as garlic bread, onion rings and jalapeño hot poppers, an Indo-Chinese vegetarian section, desserts, and dipping sauces including aioli and peri-peri.
Eating in is easy, and so is eating at home: the restaurant offers takeaway and delivery, with orders taken by phone or through the website and food prepared and packaged promptly to keep its quality on the journey. Doors are open from 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, every day of the week.
On Gadsby Road in Favona, south Auckland, Royal Indian Cuisine Royal Pizza Mangere runs a friendly double act. One half of the name speaks for a kitchen devoted to traditional Indian flavours and warm hospitality; the other for a pizza oven turning out the Indian-style pizzas the Royal kitchens are known for. Together they make this neighbourhood branch — part of a small Auckland restaurant family that also runs Royal Indian Cuisine Pakuranga in Farm Cove — a practical answer to the eternal question of what to have for dinner. If half the table is in the mood for Indian and the other half wants pizza, it's the sort of place where nobody has to lose the vote.
The kitchen organises itself into four broad sections: pizza, sides and rolls, Indo-Chinese vegetarian dishes, and desserts. Pizza leads the way, billed as delicious Indian-style pizza, and the range deliberately covers both ends of the adventurousness scale. The classics are all here — a Margherita for the purists, a Pepperoni for the traditionalists. Then come the inventive creations the kitchen is better known for.
The Moroccan Lamb is the one to ask for: a Moroccan base sauce under seasoned lamb mince and a medley of fresh vegetables, finished with a swirl of ranch sauce. Alongside it sits the Salmon Lovers, a seafood-leaning option for diners who like their pizza from the ocean rather than the paddock. It's a menu built on the idea that quality ingredients and innovative flavours can sit comfortably next to tradition — that there should be something to satisfy every palate at the table.
Pizza may be the star of the show, but the supporting cast earns its keep. The nachos selection comes properly loaded — Loaded Beef Nachos and Cheesy Bacon Nachos, each layered with flavourful toppings and sauces, generous enough to share or to make a meal on their own.
The sides list reads like a line-up of pizza-night accompaniments: garlic bread, onion rings and jalapeño hot poppers for anyone who likes a little heat with their slice. A range of dipping sauces, including aioli and peri-peri, lets you fine-tune each bite to taste. The Indo-Chinese vegetarian section adds yet another flavour direction for vegetable-focused diners, and the dessert list closes the meal on a sweet note. It's the kind of menu where a mixed group can order widely and everyone finds their favourite.
Royal Indian Cuisine Royal Pizza Mangere keeps its hours simple: 10:00 am to 8:00 pm, Monday through Sunday. That covers early lunches, after-work dinners and weekend family meals alike. Because the kitchen spans both Indian-style cooking and pizza, it suits big mixed orders too — a couple of pizzas for the table, loaded nachos to share, and Indo-Chinese veg for the vegetarians.
For those who prefer to eat at home, takeaway and delivery are both on offer. Orders can be placed by phone or through the website's Order Online page — just select the Royal Indian Cuisine Royal Pizza Mangere branch at 140 Gadsby Road, Favona — and food is prepared and packaged promptly to hold its quality on the way home. It's an easy, practical set-up: order whatever you like, from whichever half of the menu, and it arrives ready to eat.
The Mangere branch doesn't operate alone. Its sister, Royal Indian Cuisine Pakuranga, sits at 4/190 Fisher Parade in Farm Cove, sharing the same commitment to traditional flavours and warm hospitality. For Favona and Mangere locals, though, everything is right on Gadsby Road: a menu that moves easily from Moroccan Lamb pizza to loaded nachos to Indo-Chinese vegetables, a kitchen that treats quality ingredients as a given, and the everyday convenience of a restaurant that answers the phone, fires up the oven and sends you home happy — every day of the week.