Double D's Takeaway — also trading as Double D's Lunchbar & Takeaway — sits on Broadway in Matamata and covers the full Kiwi takeaway repertoire: fish and chips fresh from the fryer, a towering burger menu, fried chicken boxes, toasted sandwiches, milkshakes and a small dessert bar. Ordering runs through the shop's online system, with pickup, delivery and no-contact delivery all available.
The fryer menu leans properly local — hoki, snapper and tarakihi, plus paua and mussel fritters, potato fritters, fish cakes, spring rolls, sausages and hotdogs. Chips come in four sizes with a choice of chicken salt, lemon pepper or spicy harissa seasoning, and the sides stretch from curly fries and wedges to loaded chips, works wedges and the house Cheesy Weesys topped with homemade tartare sauce.
The burger board is where Double D's gets ambitious: seventeen burgers, many named after motorbikes, built on angus beef patties with the classic Kiwi salad of lettuce, carrot, tomato and beetroot and the shop's special homemade mayo. Families are well catered for too, with numbered meal combos, family combos, party packs and a chicken and chips range scaled from junior boxes to a mega box.
Doors open from 3pm Monday to Wednesday, midday Thursday and Friday, and 4pm on weekends, closing at 9pm every night. Phone the shop on 07 888 8514 or order online for pickup or delivery.
On Broadway in the heart of Matamata, Double D's Takeaway — also known as Double D's Lunchbar & Takeaway — runs the full Kiwi takeaway playbook: fish and chips hot from the fryer, a burger list that goes on for days, fried chicken boxes, toasted sandwiches, proper milkshakes and a little dessert bar for after. The shop takes orders online for pickup or delivery, including no-contact delivery, so dinner can be sorted with a few taps before you even leave the couch.
The fryer is where it all starts. The fish lineup covers hoki, snapper and tarakihi, and alongside them sit the fritters that make a Kiwi chippy worth the detour — the paua fritter, the mussel fritter and the ever-reliable potato fritter. Fish cakes, crab sticks, squid rings, scallops and prawn twisters fill out the seafood side, while the land-based half of the fryer turns out sausages, battered sausages, hotdogs, cheese kranskey and a roll for every mood: spring, curry, chicken curry or vegie. Fish bites and mini spring rolls keep the kids — and the combo builders — happy.
Chips come in four sizes — regular, large, jumbo and massive — and every size carries a choice of three seasonings: chicken salt, lemon pepper or spicy harissa. Beyond the standard scoop there are beer battered fries, curly fries, shoe strings, wedges and kumara chips, plus the loaded end of the menu: loaded chips with bacon, cheese, mayo and BBQ, works wedges with bacon, sour cream and cheese, garlic chips, and the house Cheesy Weesys — chips, cheese and homemade tartare sauce.
Seventeen burgers deep, the burger board reads like a bike rally — Honda, Triumph, Street 500, Bagger, Road King, Softail, Street Glide, Fat Boy and the Broadway Double. The classics start with an angus beef patty dressed the traditional Kiwi way: lettuce, carrot, tomato, beetroot and the shop's special homemade mayo. From there it escalates — egg, cheese, bacon, creamy mushroom, ham and pineapple — right up to the Fat Boy, which stacks two angus patties with bacon, steak, egg, cheese and red onion sauce. Crispy chicken options bring satay, peri peri or camembert into the mix, and there's a fish burger with tartare sauce for the seafood faithful.
The toasted sandwich lineup runs six deep, from straight cheese to ham, cheese and onion, bacon and egg, cheese and pineapple, and chicken and mayo. The shake cabinet is properly old school: strawberry, chocolate, banana, lime, caramel, orange, vanilla and creaming soda, each available as a classic shake, a milk shake or a thick shake. If there's still room after all that, the dessert bar holds trifle, triple chocolate delight, chocolate mousse and sticky date with butterscotch sauce.
Double D's is clearly set up to feed groups. Seven numbered meal combos handle solo orders, four family combos scale up for the whole household, and two party packs are built for gatherings — one leaning on fish bits, sausages and mini hotdogs, the other loading up six-each of fish bits, spring rolls, mini hotdogs, onion rings and sausage bits alongside chips. The chicken and chips board runs from junior boxes all the way to the mega box, and the drinks fridge covers cans, 600ml bottles and 1.5L bottles of Coke, Sprite, Fanta and L&P.
You'll find Double D's at 80 Broadway, Matamata, with the phone on 07 888 8514 and a Facebook page for updates. Hours run 3pm to 9pm Monday through Wednesday, midday to 9pm Thursday and Friday, and 4pm to 9pm on Saturday and Sunday. Order online for pickup or no-contact delivery — handy on a rainy evening, handy in the school holidays, handy full stop.