Pedro’s House of Lamb

Highly recommended as a good all-​round top class meal — those that remember dining in at Pedro’s pre-​quake can reminisce and the rest will still love one of the heartiest meals known to man!

Looking for a GREAT meal at a great price? Looking to savor some delicious New Zealand lamb? Look no farther — this is the place. They say it serves two, but if you have three people you’ll still each have a full meal.
Slow roasted lamb, accompanied with scalloped potatoes. Cooked to perfection the meat falls off the bone.
Accompany this with a glass of Otago Pinot Noir and you’ll have the quintessential NZ dinner.

We love Pedros! One dish comfortably feeds both of us with sandwiches for the next couple of days.
It’s just a good hearty Lamb meal with delicious potatoes as well. We normally add greens as a side.

This place SO rocked and they were open on a Sunday night. Chef told us one tray would feed two but we ordered four trays, three of which was a good feed for 10! Lamb was cooked to perfection and the scalloped potatoes were the perfect addition. Pedro’s is located next to an equally awesome liquor store with a great selection of libations.

Zc. I couldn’t be in New Zealand without having New Zealand lamb I stopped by Pedro’s and pick up the best meal I’ve had since I’ve been to New Zealand

I understand the skepticism for a five star review of a food truck located in a liquor store parking lot, but you have to trust me on this one. You can pre-​order your lamb dinner to pick up on your way home so you can strut through the door like the dinner hero or, if you arrive on the early side, can try your luck the day of. The meal is easily enough for 4 people to enjoy and consists of a perfectly prepared lamb shoulder that is fall off the bone delicious and roast potatoes that are smooth and creamy. For $ 40, you absolutely get your money’s worth and then some. I recommend it for couples on a budget as you can get several meals out of this one amazing dish. Can’t fail to mention how nice the guys in the truck are either!

Pedros does one dish, lamb and potatoes. It used to have a restaurant location, which was destroyed in the earthquake. They’ve reinvented themselves as a food truck with no seating.
A small place with no real physical location is easy to evaluate. The lamb is fantastic and potatoes are mediocre. There is plenty of food (3 of us shared it for a lunch and were full). And at $ 35, it’s one of the cheapest meals around.

Pedro Lamb that falls right off the bone. Delicious! The meals are huge — with the lamb and the potatos so you get a lot for your money. Since the quake Pedro has set up home in a little food truck in front of Liquor King. Pedro and his staff are always lovely to deal with. Highly recommended.

Quoting from the last reviewer, «roast lamb done right». That’s exactly what Pedro’s is. It’s lamb, out of a food truck, with sketchy ever-​changing hours, no seating, and they run out of food some days if you leave it til too late, but they do their roast lamb right. We got a lamb shoulder for $ 35, which fed two girls (*ahem* ladies) for two meals — so I think a family of four could turn this into one tasty, complete meal. The lamb came with potatoes, also done right, in a large takeout aluminum container. Definitely delicious, and definitely worth a try. I thought it was expensive at first until I realized how much food we got. Dinner for four for $ 35 in NZ? That’s practically unheard of!

This place obviously specializes in lamb, and as a food truck/​trailer literally serves only lamb shoulders and legs, along with scalloped potatoes as a side. They also sell some pork products imported from various parts of Europe, but that’s definitely not the emphasis.
The first night we tried coming here we found that the lamb was already sold out– the owner kindly told us that it’d behoove us to call in an order for the next day (which was the last day of our trip in NZ). We did so, and picked up a HUGE leg of lamb and a large tray of potatoes for ~$ 50 NZD. The leg was more than enough to feed my parents, my wife, and me. Flavor wise, the lamb was done very well– it was simply roast lamb done right. There was a crisp but not charred/​burnt surface, with a pool of natural juices enhancing the flavor of each bite of meat we dipped into it.
We ate our meal off of a picnic bench in front of a bunch of kids playing tennis before returning our rental car to the airport. Nothing elegant about it– and I woudn’t’ve had it any other way. This place is a winner folks.