La Padella is your favourite, family-friendly restaurant located in the heart of Highland Park. Established for many years and famous among locals, this restaurant is great for anyone after some Italian food at a reasonable price.

The team at La Padella serve a large range of dishes including delicious pizza, large servings of pasta and steak meals for those carnivores out there.

A great spot for catch up with friends or for families after a night out which doesn't cost a fortune. With takeaways offered as well, these no excuse not to try La Padella.

Overview

Price Range Reasonable
Ambience Family friendly
Accepts credit cards Yes
Takes reservations Yes
Noise level Upbeat
Off street parking Yes
Private functions Yes
Takeaways Yes

Products and specialities

Italian restaurant
Lunch, dinner and dessert
Takeaways
Takes reservations or walk-ins welcome
Lunch hours - 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Dinner hours - 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hours

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  • HolidaysClosed
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To be honest we were really disappointed with the food. For entre we ordered avocado prawns and a seafood cocktail. The avocado prawns was half an avocado still in the skin with SHRIMP not PRAWN and drowned in thousand island dressing and the seafood cocktail was on a bed of old crappy lettuce with shrimp and TINNED TUNA (unacceptable for the price we paid!!) also drowned in thousand island dressing. As for the mains we both got the fettuccini, the pasta and the sauce were nice but we had to search through to find any shreds of chicken. Definitely not worth the $72 we paid. Safe to say we won’t be visiting La Padella Highland Park again.

My child loved going to La Padella Italian Restaurant at Highland Park with her friends and eating the pizza with prawn, pepperoni, mushroom and cheese last night!

The best little italian place in Auckland in my opinion! Can never shy away from a Pollo Capri meal yummo #foodfave

The best Cannelloni in the world, and that is not to mention the best Calamari as well :-)

Also the best pizza in Auckland. The pepperoni pizza is AMAZING – the pepperoni is thick and yet still crispy. It’s just insanely good. I’ve tried a few other pizzas and pasta dishes (all delicious!) but I just keep coming back for the glorious pepperoni pizza.

Great authentic Italian restaurant, with a great laid back atmosphere! There pizzas are to die for! (but make sure you have one before you die)

Had dinner here on Thursday night. It was packed at usual with people enjoying themselves. This is a great restaurant - the staff are friendly and even accomodated our request for more chocolate sauce and cream with our dessert. The food is aways good and I love the scallop padella. Still highly recommend this place.

For a local restaurant this place is great. A group of us has been dining here for over 10 years and we have never been disappointed. Great food, excellent service and very reasonable prices. There takeaway pizzas, although a bit pricey are delicious. Highly recommend this place but it definitely pays to book.

Have always gone here for years and I'm not sure if the ownership has changed but went there again for the first time in awhile a few weeks back and was just as good as ever :) I ordered a Black Russian and they hadn't had to mix one before but the guy was excited to try it and made up a nice one haha. Will definitely continue to go back, great little place and very popular!

Always friendly and welcoming. They always try to accommodate. My favorite dish is the Manzo Involtini - fantastic!