Auckland Scene

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    Speed Daters – a great night out in Auckland!

    With only a couple of days to go, Speed-Daters gets the thumbs up from our new Auckland Arts Scene blogger Astral Sligo. Get along quick for a fun night out!

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    Swooning at Clooney

    Just the name Clooney causes females of a certain age to swoon, but Auckland’s Clooney even makes men go weak at the knees. Our tasty food blogger Victoria Davy coralled her friends and set off to savour Clooney’s famous degustation menu…

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    Get the scoop on Auckland’s hottest secret dinners

    The Next Crew – Art dinners pop up randomly around Auckland with the country’s top chefs creating a fabulous course each. This time they called in 3 Aussie counterparts and guests had a mystery tour of Sky City to find them. Read on to make sure you get to the next one!

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    Quiz night at The Drake

    Auckland Scene: Every so often, a girl needs more than just a cocktail from an attentive bartender. Sometimes she needs a little intellectual stimulation and challenge. If your regular drinking buddies don’t suffice… it’s time to drag them along to Quiz Night. The first Quiz Night I ever stumbled upon was actually in O’Byron’s Irish [...]

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    The Grove wins best Auckland restaurant

    Metro Magazine has voted The Grove as number one restaurant for the second year running. Read our review and drool…

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    The amazing Miss Saigon – Auckland review

    Be in to win 2 FREE TICKETS!! Miss Saigon is one of the world’s longest running musicals as well as one of the most beautifully told, musically illustrated and emotionally moving musicals I’ve seen for a long time… Season runs til June 11, 2011

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    What’s the Racket…?!

    There’s very little about Racket not to love, let’s just be honest. But let’s begin at the beginning… in case you’re wondering where to find this little alley alcove, park yourself at Britomart Station…

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    The new kids in town: Tyler St Garage

    Auckland Scene – We rolled into town on Friday night, three blonde beauties (moi and the gal-pals) with one brave lad! We’d heard about the upstairs bar at Tyler St and figured we ought to check it out at least once before the chill of winter really sets in. Just one question – would the [...]

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    Snorting embarrassingly at Auckland’s Comedy Festival

    Contrary to popular belief Victoria Davy doesn’t spend all her time eating while out on the Auckland Scene…

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    Auckland Bar Scene: the grand ol Grand Central

    When do you know this bar thing is getting out of hand? When you order a drink at on a Monday night (on the night in question, a semi-traditional Whiskey-Mac with equal parts Irish Whiskey and ginger wine over ice with lemon, no mixer) and the bartender looks at you, smiles, winks, then says “Ah, [...]