Big Boy Takeaways is a Kiwi fish and chip shop at 758 New North Road in Mount Albert, Auckland, with a 3.9 Google rating from 108 reviews. Reviewers praise the steak and egg toasted sandwich and the friendly couple behind the counter, and fish and chips, hot dogs, snapper and oysters come up often in the comments.
The measure of a good takeaway is freshness and timing: fish that came in that morning, a thin batter fried crisp to order rather than sitting under a heat lamp, and chips that stay crisp on the walk home. Snapper is the classic Auckland choice, so it pays to ask what arrived on the day. Regulars also time their visits around the Friday-night rush, when queues build and everything leaves the fryer in batches.
On New North Road in Mount Albert, Big Boy is the sort of neighbourhood shop built for a simple, paper-wrapped feed close to home.