New World Victoria Park

Made a quick stop here before heading to the airport to grab treats for our family and friends. There were so many different sweets to choose from that we spent a good amount of time in that one same aisle. We did notice the supermarket had a vast variety of other products. Some food items looked so good that I was even tempted to buy some but realized I couldn’t because I would need a cooler with ice so that these items can last our 9 hour flight back home. Guess we’d have to come back to New Zealand to try them ^_^

Love that supermarket versus countdown… The quality is way higher, good choices of meat, vegetables and what is important for me, a large choice of beers :) On top, employees are always friendly and will do the extra miles to help find the right products. If you go for the promotion is even way cheaper than the competition. My favorite supermarket in the Ponsonby /​Freemas area. High Quality

After visiting this place I can’t decide which is more fun — clothes shopping or food shopping! I can spend an hour here just perusing each aisle. Love how spacious this place is. And love the late hours (open til midnight!)! Kind of reminds me of the Whole Foods supermarket back home in Manhattan. I make the 15 minute trek here from CBD since this place is so much more appealing with lots more variety and options than the local Countdown supermarket that’s only 3 blocks away from me.

One of the nicest supermarkets in town with the widest range of household staples. Not as flash as Nosh and Farro, but they do stock a number of seasonal goodies, dog food, flowers and an excellent range of wine. When do I love it the most? At 11pm when I realize I’m one ingredient short of a cake mix and I know they are still open!

Pretty much my favourite supermarket in Auckland. Also this supermarket is a certified organic retailer. The best part is their selection of organic foods which are located all over the store! Great parking and easy to locate. Nice friendly staff which have been there a long time!

As far as supermarkets go, New World Victoria Park really is a good as it gets! Why, you ask? Well, it’s still has all the basic necessities (toilet paper, cleaning products, milk etc) but on top of that it has the best range of artisan products, heaps of which are NZ made. There’s the buffalo yoghurt from Clevedon, The Lucky Taco’s hot sauce, …heck there’s even microwave dinners made my our very own Josh Emett (granted, they’re around $ 22 a pop).
Also well worth checking out is their beer selection. Easily the best i’ve seen in a supermarket. Ever. There’s heaps of local brews (Halletau, Moa and Zeffer to name a few) as well as some interesting imports like the Western Australian beer, Little Creatures.
If i’m ever in the area, I always try to stop onto at N. W Vicki Park — even if it’s not to buy anything but just to peruse the shelfs and see what new products they’ve got in. Inevitably, I always end up buying something!

I get around Auckland a lot for work so have been in to pretty much all supermarkets and this one is by fare the best. Though it will never be the cheapest it is also not the most expensive so sits in a happy medium.
Staff are always helpful and the layout never leaves you lost and unable to find what you need.
Great selection of wine and craft beers will set you up for any dinner party.
Top of the list though is the bakery. Not only is it top for a supermarket but I find the baked goods even better than most bakeries.

New World Victoria Park has to best overall supermarket in the Auckland area. An excellent selection of fruits and veges, craft beers and wines and imported food specialty items. The great thing is that it has a balanced selection of up-​market fancy food items *and* regular everyday items that are at prices which are comparable to the other supermarkets in the area.
Additionally, the deli counter has good sandwiches, wraps and sushi and is frequented by the local working crowd at lunch time.
Overall, my favourite store to do my shopping.

I have shopped at Victoria Park for a number of years, so have experienced the chaos on Sunday afternoons, and the sheer joy of buying groceries at midnight — bliss! They have long opening hours, from 7am-​midnight I think.
Generally ‘New World’ stock everything you need for a dinner party and sell a great selection of NZ & international wine, and cider/​beer of course! This supermarket is used also for a lot of media events — including a catwalk show for ‘Stolen Girlfriends Club’, NZ Fashion House not so long ago!:) Fabulous location, with ample parking to boot.

This is by far one of the best supermarkets in Auckland. When you’re less concerned about price and more about quality and variety of food that will be available to you then this is the supermarket you need to come too. New World Victoria Park sells stuff you won’t find elsewhere like dried fruit cones you’ll find in the chilled section of the produce department. The interesting spices and other exotic pantry ingredients you’ll find in the delicatessen section that gives Nosh a run for their money. They also stock this fantastic vegan gingerbread here so I make a trip out specially for it. The bakery is better than what you’ll find in other supermarkets, they even sell imported French conserves and the biggest range of bagels you’ll find in a supermarket too. New World Victoria Park also sell Kohu Road ice cream and sorbet, $ 21 a tub but so worth it. A very impressive range of beers too from around the globe.
All in all, a nicely laid out supermarket with a great self service check out and if you are a fan of Starbucks there is one of those too. So if you’re not too posh to push (a trolley that is) this is the best supermarket to be pushing a trolley around.

The best supermarket to come to for microwave meals. Compared to the Countdown’s in the area, which really just have small selection of frozen Indian meals, New World’s microwave ready meals actually pass for edible food — which is saying a alot for microwave ready meals. They sell gourmet food, ready to be microwaved, which is just kept in the refrigerated section, so it’s a little bit of a fresher deal than the frozen food varieties. Nice supermarket generally, good parking, good service etc. I have heard it is one of the more expensive supermarkets around, but I mean, 10c here and 20c there, it is not going to be the difference of you being rich or poor.

If there was such thing as a ‘cool’ branch of a supermarket, New World Victoria Park would be it. Located right in Ponsonby at the bottom of Franklin Road, it’s the grocery home to many ‘celebs’ (obviously I use that term very loosely) and all the cool kids around Auckland. The cool factor is reflected in the not so cool prices (it’s widely regarded as one of the most expensive supermarkets around) but to be honest, I don’t really notice too much difference.
My favourite part of the supermarket is the ‘hot’ section — they’ve got these kind of lattice pastry pies (the chicken one is mean, and by mean I mean fricken yum) and sausage rolls and hot twisted chocolate pastry things. The bread section adjacent is very good, also.
It’s a supermarket so there’s a tonne of parking in the parking lot.

New World Victoria Park is in a pretty handy location to the viaduct/​Ponsonby area. And when it first opened it had a reputation for being the flashest supermarket around. It definitely has the flashest prices — I recently went to buy a quite small pot of salad at their deli counter for lunch and was astounded when it came to around $ 11. I could pay that for lunch in a café and have somewhere comfortable to sit!
I would go back to New World purely for the convenience of the location but I’ll be examining all the price tags very carefully before I make my next purchase.