Auckland Pie Garage, Apgujeong Rodeo: Seriously Good Fish & Chips, British Food with a Kiwi Accent

The sign stops at AUCKLAND PIE GA. The rest of the letters disappear past the end of the shutter box.

Underneath, one letter per card: Kia ora, the Māori greeting from New Zealand.

The name says pie shop. But what landed on our table that day wasn't pie: it was four brunch plates.

This is British comfort food with a New Zealand accent, and one of my go-to spots in Apgujeong. Above all, the fish and chips are seriously good.

A sign on the shutter, Kia ora one letter at a time

Bold black letters on a silver shutter box read AUCKLAND PIE GA. Under the ceiling hang letter cards in a row: K·i·a·-·o·r·a. The walls and ceiling inside are bare OSB board, lit by yellow glass pendant lamps.

A yellow sticker on the glass display case by the door says NEW ZEALAND kiwi kiwi. The APG that keeps turning up on the menu (APG house salad, A.P.G signature) looks like the shop's initials.

The menu: five pies and a "Garage Brunch"

We sat down around noon and opened the menu clipped to a board. Here's what it lists, with prices.

New Zealand pies ("Baked fresh, served hot")

Pie	Price
Mince & cheese pie	12.0
Butter chicken pie	13.0
Chicken & leek pie	12.0
Steak & cheese pie	14.0
Sausage roll	13.0

Pies can be made into combos: Mash combo (mashed potato, gravy, green peas) +3.9, Salad combo (APG house salad) +6.9, Chips combo +5.9.

Garage Brunch ("From the kitchen")

Dish	Price
Seafood chowder	12.0
3 eggs omelet	16.0
Root salad	18.0
Garage eggs Benedict (bacon +1.0, salmon +2.0)	21.0
Kiwi Brekkie	21.0
Spicy meatball (as pasta +4.0)	19.0
Super Neba cold noodle	23.0
3 layers lasagna	22.0
Fisherman's pasta	21.0
Mushroom crumble pasta	19.0
Minute steak	29.0
Fish & chips (salad instead of chips +2.0)	23.0

Desserts: choco fudge cake 7.0, almond pie 6.5, carrot cake 6.0, mini lemon tart 5.0, C.C.C. cookie (chocolate chunk chewy cookie) 3.0.

Coffee first

The coffee beat the food: a white cup on a black saucer with leaf-shaped latte art, a paper napkin tucked underneath.

Kiwi Brekkie: a whole breakfast on one plate

About ten minutes later, two plates arrived together. The first was the Kiwi Brekkie ("brekkie" is Kiwi and Aussie slang for breakfast). The menu lists scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, spinach, asparagus, mushroom, tomato, hash brown and baked beans.

A thick sausage, scored on the diagonal, carries a round hash brown on its back. Bacon and asparagus sit behind it, a heap of yellow scrambled eggs beside it, and two slices of white bread brushed with olive oil lean in at the front.

From above you can see it all: two hash browns, a cherry tomato, fried onion and mushrooms, and baked beans filling the edge of the plate.

Seriously good fish and chips, with malt vinegar on the side

The second was fish and chips: a steel basket with handles, lined with newsprint-style paper and piled with fried fish and crinkle-cut chips, topped with arugula and shredded carrot, with a handful of green peas and a sauce in a steel cup at the front. The menu describes it as fish, chips, tartar and green peas.

The bottle beside it is SARSON'S MALT VINEGAR, labelled "Craft brewed, since 1794": malt vinegar with fish and chips, the British way.

Split a piece of fish and the white flesh comes apart in flakes. A pair of tongs sits between the two plates for sharing.

This is the basket I'd point you to first. The fish and chips are seriously good.

Minute steak: sliced beef and green beans

The third plate was the minute steak. The menu lists beef, fried egg, mashed potato and baked beans.

Sliced seared beef is stacked up and sprinkled with parsley, with a fried egg showing its yolk behind it, baked beans and a roasted carrot. Grill-marked green beans are piled in front, with a dark brown sauce in a steel cup and a spoonful of wholegrain mustard at the edge.

Fisherman's pasta: three green mussels

Last came the fisherman's pasta. The menu says NZ green mussels, squid and an oil-based pasta.

On top of the spaghetti: three big mussels with green-edged shells (New Zealand green-lipped mussels), several shrimp, one squid ring, a cherry tomato and a lemon wedge, all under parsley and grated cheese.

Practical info

📍 Auckland Pie Garage · around Dosan-daero 49-gil, Apgujeong Rodeo, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul

• 🗓️ Visited: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, lunch
• 🚇 Getting there: about 500 m from Apgujeongrodeo Station (Suin–Bundang Line).
• 💰 Prices (from the menu): pies 12.0–14.0, brunch and mains 12.0–29.0, in thousands of won (12.0 = 12,000 won).
• 📋 How the menu works: add a combo to a pie (+3.9 to +6.9); fish and chips can come with salad instead of chips (+2.0).
• 🗺️ Map: View on Google Maps

Jayden's verdict

An Apgujeong favourite: British food with a New Zealand accent, and the fish and chips are seriously good.

• Order this: the fish and chips.
• Also on the table: Kiwi Brekkie, minute steak, fisherman's pasta and a latte-art coffee.
• Tip: menu numbers are in thousands of won, so 21.0 is 21,000 won.
• See also: for another lunch in Sinsa-dong, over on the Garosu-gil side, see Not Bad Coffee & Sandwich.