Springfield Takeaway is a neighbourhood fish-and-chip shop and burger bar on Springfield Road in Rotorua, feeding the local suburb and much of the city from its fryers every evening of the week. It is the kind of classic Kiwi takeaway where the top sellers are exactly what you would hope for: hot chips, battered hoki and a good old hotdog.
The menu runs well beyond the basics. Alongside hoki and tarakihi you will find whole flounder, kumara and beer-battered chips, potato fritters, mussels, scallops, oysters and prawn twisters, plus seafood baskets for one or two served with chips and salad. The burger board is the other headline act — from the traditional hamburger stacked with beetroot to Angus patties, 100% chicken breast fillet burgers, a veggie burger built on a corn fritter, and house giants like the Springfield Burger and Big Boy Burger. Combo packs, kids packs with juice pouches and deep-fried sweet treats round it all out.
Ordering is easy: the full menu is online for pre-order, with pickup or delivery to more than two dozen Rotorua suburbs (delivery fees apply) and secure online payments including Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The listing carries a 4.2 rating on its ordering site. Hours run 4pm to 7:30pm Sunday to Wednesday, with a midday opening from Thursday to Saturday.
On Springfield Road in Rotorua's Springfield suburb, Springfield Takeaway does what the best neighbourhood chippies have always done: chips in the fryer, fish in the batter, burgers on the grill — and plenty of each. It is a straightforward Kiwi takeaway with a surprisingly deep menu, open into the evening every day of the week and backed by full online ordering for pickup or delivery across Rotorua.
The proof is in the top sellers list, and it reads like a page from the classics: chips, battered hoki and a hotdog, with the hamburger and potato fritters just behind. If you are after the platonic New Zealand fish-and-chip order, this is the place to make it.
The Fish & Chips section is the backbone of the menu. Hoki and tarakihi lead the fish, with whole flounder for a treat, and the chip selection runs from regular and kumara to beer-battered, garlic and wedges — plus the cheekily named house numbers, Blood n Guts and Roadkill. Potato fritters, hashbrowns and rissoles hold down the comfort-food end.
The seafood goes well beyond the usual: mussels, scallops, oysters, calamari rings, prawn twisters, fish cakes and mussel fritters, with single-item and six-piece options for mixing and matching. If decision fatigue sets in, the Seafood Basket for one or two does the work — mussels, scallops, an oyster, calamari, fish bites and a prawn cutlet with chips and salad. There are proper grill meals too: scotch fillet steak or grilled chicken fillet with chips, egg, pineapple and salad fixings.
Combo packs cover the family table, pairing fish with sausages, crabstick, hot dogs, chicken nuggets and potato fritters over a bed of chips, in sizes from a two-fish dinner up to an eight-fish feed.
Then there are the burgers. It starts conventionally — the hamburger with its Angel Bay pattie, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, mayo and relish — and escalates quickly: Angus patties with bacon and caramelised red onion, a steak burger built on beef steak, double-patty and double-cheese stacks, and the Beef it Up Burger with egg, hash brown and beer-battered onion rings.
The house specials go further. The Springfield Burger piles pattie, beef steak, bacon, cheese, mushroom, chicken nuggets, egg and pineapple into one; the Carpet Bag Burger adds an oyster to steak and egg; the Deep Blue Burger goes full seafood with battered mussels, fish bites, calamari and tartare sauce. The Wicked Chicken Burgers line is built on 100% chicken breast fillet — from the simple Chicken Fillet Burger to the Tower with hashbrown and the Spicy Spring with homemade spicy sauce — and a veggie burger on a corn fritter covers the non-meat eaters. Hot dogs get their own moment too, from the mini version to the American Hot Dog with onion and cheese.
Families are well looked after: kids packs pair chicken nuggets, fish bites or mini hot dogs with chips and a juice pouch, and a separate kids burger menu scales down the favourites. Dessert is a deep-fried Moro bar, a donut, or pineapple and banana fritters.
Springfield Takeaway takes online pre-orders for a set pickup time, which is handy around the evening rush. The shop opens at 4pm on Sunday through Wednesday and from midday Thursday to Saturday, closing at 7:30pm nightly — so Thursday to Saturday are your days for a lunchtime chippy run.
Delivery reaches more than 25 Rotorua suburbs, from Fairy Springs and Glenholme across to Ngongotaha, Lynmore and Whakarewarewa, with fees shown at checkout, and secure online payments accept Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The listing carries a 4.2 rating on its ordering site.
Whether it is a paper-wrapped fish and chips on the way home, a seafood basket for a treat, or a burger that requires two hands and a plan, Springfield Takeaway keeps the neighbourhood fed — one order at a time.