Royal Horse Restuarant - Pukekohe

I have dined here upstairs at the buffet a couple of times over the last few years, and am still greatly impressed at the quality and decent selection of food. Everything here from fresh salmon, oyster and sushi, through a range of very nicely cooked pork, fish, beef, chicken duck and vegetable dishes. The desserts are very simple and few, the highlight here, being the hot sugared deep fried banana balls.The surrounds are very modern, clean and comfortable. The staff are friendly and helpful. If you love buffet, come here if you don't enjoy buffet, come here you will change your mind!

UPDATE 02/2018 Since the review was first posted, the price for dinner has gone up $5 and I have not tried it out yet, so I don't know if it is as good as it used to be. Likely it is the pressure of having to cater to a growing customer base and to discourage waste (a frequent problem for buffet businesses). ORIGINAL REVIEW This is for the dinner buffet: For the money, the variety of food is really good. Yes, most is standard takeaway fare, but that isn't a bad thing especially for this price. Still, there is fresh salmon and oysters, in addition to sushi, prawn cocktail, roast duck, honey BBQ pork, fried rice, fried noodles, chicken corn soup, honey BBQ pork ribs (this is a rare item anywhere and it is very tasty), roast pork belly, deep fried squid and scallops, stir fried mixed seafood, honey pork chops, braised beef steak, fried fish, panfried fish, steamed (I believe) mussels, sweet sour pork, lemon chicken, chicken kebabs, and a lot more, plus decent desserts such as cheesecake, pavlova, fruit salad, jelly, mud cake, ice cream and hot beverages. Not the best in quality (although some items are premium or rare) but not the worst, AND you get amazing variety. Food is usually fresh cooked and replenished quickly, so no complaints some places take forever to refill but Royal Horse is good in this respect. Service is OK they take away empty dishes and refill your tea pots, what more do you want? Overall, it is recommended for a good feed at a good price (about $25 per person although steadily increasing slightly each year), just don't expect five star dining and service, only good to great food and variety.

I always enjoy our meals at the restaurant and have booked it a couple of times for big groups. The service is friendly and the food is very good. It is hard to find places that offer value for money these days and this place is one of them. AWESOME!

Reasonably priced and good smorgasbord food, yet to try something off the menu. Will definitely keep coming back. Building looks very clean inside.

We bought takeaways from the brand spanking new site of the royal horse a pukekohe instituition for more then 20years! Our selection of chinese goodies were plentiful and well cooked. The vegetables were many and varied and cooked to perfection. We thought it great value for money and they were ready for us quickly also. The only improvement could be with the sweet and sour pork as the pork was alittle dry and chewy, otherwise it was really enjoyed by all AND there were leftovers for lunch the next day!