Coming Soon: SkyCity's Famous Steak Restaurant The Grill Is Making a Triumphant Return

Calling all steak fans: The Grill is opening its doors once again, after Covid-19 forced the restaurant to close temporarily in 2021.

The restaurant first opened at SkyCity in 2011 and quickly became one of the best places in Auckland to get a good steak — an expectation the team at The Grill are keen to maintain with the help of newly appointed Executive Chef Touvai Poloniati. The Tongan chef is no stranger to the SkyCity hospitality family, after cooking up a storm in the SkyCity kitchens as an apprentice chef when he was just a teenager.

Since then, Poloniati has been gathering culinary expertise in kitchens both in Aotearoa and overseas, working in Hong Kong, Australia and Canada, bringing international techniques and knowledge to his position at The Grill.

Poloniati will be celebrating Aotearoa's best produce in The Grill's kitchen, serving up high quality grass-fed steaks and sustainably caught fresh fish.

"The menu has been carefully curated to honour the exceptional producers, purveyors, farmers, and fisheries who are proud to be championing ethical practices from both our land and sea," Chef Poloniati says.

The menu will also include dishes that will be whipped up right in front of you, table side, including a venison tartare and an up-market iteration of the classic caesar salad.

The Grill will live in SkyCity's newest hotel, the Horizon by SkyCity. The five-star hotel will boast 303 rooms including 10 exclusive suites, sitting right next to the almost completed New Zealand International Convention Centre on Hobson Street.

The Grill is set to open in late March and can be found at Horizon by SkyCity, 85 Hobson Street, Auckland. Bookings can now be made through the restaurant's website.