Molten

Wine bar and restaurant both good options, particularly for sharing lighter plates. Good food, service excellent and plenty of wine choices. Also helpful advice on more obscure wine selections if required.

Still a really good place to dine. Haven’t been here for about 8 years but nothing has changed.
Still excellent service and spectacular food. Very well presented dishes and excellent service by the wait staff.
Small inside so would suit an intimate dining experience in my view.

This place is the bees knees. Consistently good staff offering outstanding service. An incredible wine list that the staff will help you through and intelligently advise you on. Did I mention cocktails? Check them out! So worth a visit for the start, all or end of the night.

This place is great on a Monday! They have a $ 7 pizza deal but you have to buy a drink so really it’s a $ 15 pizza and a drink, which is fine the pizzas delicious and the service is friendly. And on those cold winter night outside they’ll provide you with a warm blanket to wrap yourself in while you eat.

A good little local. The food is good (nothing amazing, but pleasing). The pulled mozzarella shared plate is delicious! Order from the restaurant menu, not the bar menu and ask the knowledgeable staff for wine recommendations.

Meh. This place’s reputation is a farce. The restaurant is crowded, the courtyard out the back in tiny and it gets bloody hot there when there’s too many people. The staff are rude and treat you like you shouldn’t be there, the food is boring and there’s just nothing special about the place at all. It’s a nice place for the middle of Mt Eden Road, but there’s far better options than Molten. The only good thing I do have to say, however, is when I went there for a friend’s wedding drinks (it was just drinks and nibbles really), and they had these delicious cheesy risotto balls that are actually the yummiest things I have ever had in my entire life. But unless you are going there for that exact thing, I wouldn’t go, at all.

We were here often late last year on a Saturday evening sharing a platter of antipasto goodies along with some Arancini balls. I’ve just discovered the menu has recently changed and while the Arancini are blessedly still here, they may ever so slightly modified. Mushroom and Raclette sounds like a winning combo. I think they used to have a different cheese. All good — I never met a cheese I didn’t like.
I do appreciate a business that doesn’t sit on its laurels. There are some brand new goodies to try like Honey Roasted Beets and Cauliflower Beignets and sigh, a lovely long list of cheeses with well considered accompaniments. This is my kind of eating and obviously I’m not the only who digs it as the shared plates thing is ubiquitous at the moment.
Being a wine bar I love coming here and asking for a new and exciting drop, and I’ve always found the majority of the staff to be friendly and helpful. I can’t wait to get in and try the new dishes and I hope that in addition to menu changes there has maybe been some changes with the staff. Like I said, we are pretty regular here but honestly the surliness behind the bar sometimes of one particular female was almost too much to bear. I always figure that if you don’t like people you shouldn’t work in hospitality. Am I right or am I right? Smiling is part of the job and if you can’t do it then you should probably find a different profession.

For a good few months Molten bar was my late Sunday afternoon watering hole of choice. That was until they stopped opening on Sundays. Now my visits are reserved for weekday evenings when the place is still quiet and you can grab a blanket and a seat in their covered courtyard out back, or in one of the booths inside. It’s a relaxing environment, somewhere you feel like you can hang out all day, grazing with friends. The drinks are above average, the staff are attentive without being overbearing, the food is very good. The menu changes seasonally, but the crinkle cut chips with truffle aioli always remain (and with good reason).