The Eatery is the dining heart of Eastridge Shopping Centre at 215 Kepa Road, Mission Bay — a community shopping centre in Auckland's eastern bays that bills itself as 'your community out east.' Here, in the Eatery's own words, 'cultures unite and flavours collide': a row of independent kitchens, each cooking a different cuisine, gathered under one roof.
The line-up spans slices of authentic Italy at Dante's Pizzeria, mouth-watering Greek wraps, salads and plates at Zeta Greek Kitchen, the famously 'world famous in New Zealand' noodles at Eden Noodles Cafe, traditional Malaysian dishes at Uncle Mans, freshly made Korean style fried chicken at My Fried Chicken, and unique sushi with a Brazilian and Korean twist at Temakeria. The Bays Bar & Grill, pitched as 'the place to meet and eat at Eastridge', is coming soon.
Menus from the restaurants are available every day from 11am till late, making the Eatery a simple answer to mixed cravings — lunch with colleagues, dinner with loved ones, or a solo noodle run. Eastridge itself rounds out a visit with shops for home essentials, health and wellbeing services, and ample free 2-hour parking for over 300 cars.
The centre opens Mon–Sat 9am–6.30pm and Sun 9am–4.30pm, with reduced hours on public holidays; the Eatery's kitchens serve from 11am and individual vendors keep their own hours.
On Kepa Road in the heart of Mission Bay, Eastridge Shopping Centre calls itself 'your community out east' — the place where locals shop for home essentials, grab flowers for a neighbour, work out with friends and, when the day calls for it, dine out with the people they love. At the centre of that daily rhythm sits The Eatery, the shopping centre's dining destination, where in its own words 'cultures unite and flavours collide.'
The Eatery is not a single restaurant. It is a collection of independent kitchens, each specialising in one cuisine, arranged side by side so that a group with four different cravings can still eat at one table. The menus the restaurants have crafted are available every day from 11am till late, which makes the Eatery as practical for a midday work lunch as it is for an unhurried dinner.
The line-up reads like a short tour of the world. Dante's Pizzeria serves slices of authentic Italy. Zeta Greek Kitchen turns out mouth-watering Greek wraps, salads and plates. Eden Noodles Cafe does the noodles it famously describes as 'world famous in New Zealand.' Uncle Mans is the stop for a fix of traditional Malaysian, while My Fried Chicken makes freshly made Korean style fried chicken. Temakeria completes the set with unique sushi that carries a Brazilian and Korean twist.
There is also more on the way: The Bays Bar & Grill, billed as 'the place to meet and eat at Eastridge', is currently marked as coming soon, promising to round out the Eatery's offer with a proper bar-and-grill option once it opens.
That variety is the Eatery's real signature. Rather than choosing between cuisines, families and friend groups split up at the counters and reconvene at the table — pizza and Greek plates for some, noodles and Malaysian dishes for others, Korean fried chicken and sushi to pass around. It turns ordering into part of the outing.
The Eatery works because of what surrounds it. Eastridge positions itself as a genuine community hub: shopping for home essentials, health and wellbeing services — the centre jokes it is where your kids get their braces and where you go for your favourite neck massage — and now a dining scene worth planning a visit around. Ample free 2-hour parking for over 300 cars means an Eatery trip rarely requires more planning than finding a spot.
The centre describes itself as your 'happy place' for shopping, eating and wellbeing, and the Eatery is the eating third of that promise. This is food designed for regulars: the colleagues who lunch here weekly, the families who make an evening of it, and the noodle devotees who come specifically for Eden Noodles.
Eastridge Shopping Centre is open Monday to Saturday from 9am to 6.30pm and Sundays from 9am to 4.30pm. Within those hours, the Eatery's menus are served every day from 11am till late, though each restaurant keeps its own hours, so it pays to check ahead for a specific kitchen.
Public holidays run on a reduced rhythm: the centre is closed on Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day; Anzac Day trading runs 1pm to 4.30pm; and Boxing Day, New Year's Day and other public holidays run 9am to 4.30pm. General questions go to the centre manager on 021 570 081, while each Eatery restaurant lists its own contact number for orders and enquiries.
For East Auckland, the formula is simple and appealing: one roof, seven kitchens, free parking and dining that stretches till late. Whether the craving is for a slice of Italy, a Greek wrap, a bowl of famously good noodles, Malaysian classics, Korean fried chicken or sushi with a twist, the Eatery at Eastridge has a counter for it — with the neighbourly feel of a centre that knows its community.