Traditional Roast does exactly what its name promises: proper roast dinners, served from a small shop on Beach Rd in Torbay on Auckland's North Shore. The spot holds a 4.4 rating on its online ordering page and has built a following around generous, old-school roast meals for pickup or delivery.
The heart of the menu is the roast meal lineup — pork, lamb, beef, chicken or a vegetarian option — with every meal served the traditional way: potatoes, kumara, pumpkin, peas, carrots, gravy and a sauce of your choice. Alongside the plated meals there's whole, half and quarter roast chicken, chicken pieces by the piece, and value chicken combos, plus sandwiches and rolls filled with your choice of meat, salad and gravy. Sides like extra kumara, pumpkin and mashed potato with gravy round things out, and soft drinks, Bundaberg ginger beer and sparkling water are on hand to wash it down.
Ordering is easy via the online menu, with preorder options for pickup and delivery across a wide swath of the North Shore — from Takapuna and Milford up through Browns Bay, Torbay and Long Bay to the Whangaparaoa Peninsula and Silverdale. Hours run 11:30am to 9pm six days a week, with a later 4pm start on Sundays, making it a handy answer to the question of who's cooking dinner tonight.
On Beach Road in the heart of Torbay, Traditional Roast keeps things refreshingly simple: proper roast dinners, cooked, carved and packed for takeaway. It's the sort of food most people only get around the family table — slices of roast meat, golden potatoes, kumara and pumpkin, peas and carrots, all pulled together with gravy and a sauce of your choice. Here, it's available any day of the week, either picked up from the counter or delivered across Auckland's North Shore.
The idea has clearly found its audience — the listing carries a solid 4.4 rating — and the online menu is a study in focus. Rather than sprawl across cuisines, Traditional Roast concentrates on roast meals, whole roast chickens, sandwiches and rolls, with the sides, sauces and drinks to round everything out. Even the top-sellers list tells the story: alongside the pork, lamb and beef roast meals sit humble single potatoes, kumara and pumpkin, a sign of just how many customers load up their trays with extra veg.
The heart of the menu is the classic roast meal. Choose pork, beef or chicken at $22.10, or go for lamb at $25.00 — every one comes served with potatoes, kumara, pumpkin, peas, carrots, gravy and a sauce of your choice. A vegetarian roast meal at $12.40 gives plant-based diners the same full-tray treatment.
Roast chicken gets its own section: a whole bird for $25.50, a half for $12.50 or a quarter for $7.80, with chicken pieces at $4.30 each and two chicken combo deals for a quicker, budget-friendly feed. Because the trimmings are sold by the piece as well — potatoes $1.00, kumara and pumpkin $1.10 — it's easy to scale a meal up for big appetites or a full family table.
For a hand-held version of the same idea, the sandwich and roll range pairs your choice of pork, lamb, beef or chicken with salad and gravy. Sandwiches run $9.70 to $10.20, rolls $10.80 to $11.90. Extras cover the comfort-food bases: mashed potato with gravy ($4.50), extra gravy ($2.80) and peas and carrots ($3.40). Drinks include cans and 1.5L bottles of soft drink, Bundaberg ginger beer and Kiwi Blue sparkling water.
Traditional Roast runs a full online ordering system with secure payments by Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. You can order for pickup — including pre-ordering ahead for a set time — or choose delivery, with fees applying across a wide slice of the North Shore. The delivery map stretches from Takapuna, Milford and Glenfield up through Campbells Bay, Mairangi Bay, Murrays Bay, Browns Bay, Waiake and Torbay itself, out to Long Bay, Albany and Rosedale, and up the coast to Silverdale and the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, taking in Stanmore Bay, Manly, Gulf Harbour and Army Bay.
That makes it a handy answer to the weeknight 'what's for dinner?' question, an easy option for feeding a group without turning on the oven, or a comforting tray for one after a long day.
The shop trades 11:30am to 9pm Wednesday through Monday, with Sunday the exception — a later 4pm start, running through to 9pm. Evening windows are the busiest stretch for a roast, so pre-ordering online for a set pickup time is a smart way to have your meal ready the moment you arrive.
In a dining scene full of trends, there's something quietly appealing about a shop that does one thing and does it properly. Whether you're after a full lamb roast with all the trimmings, a quarter chicken and a roll for lunch, or a whole bird to carry home, Traditional Roast serves up Sunday-lunch comfort any night of the week — with delivery across the Shore when you'd rather not leave the house.