Auckland’s newest restaurant, The Food Store, is creating a stir in the Viaduct. Here is our tasty food blogger, Victoria Davy’s, take: I first learnt about The Food Store as I was fast-forwarding through the ads on the Food Channel. Up pops a tattooed bloke, gesturing wildly (I was fast-forwarding) with the viaduct in the [...]
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Check out The Food Store
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7 courses at Meredith’s – mmmm
Michael Meredith’s highly sought after restaurant is the first in our new series by Victoria Davy as she chomps her way through Auckland’s degustation menus… Most New Year’s resolutions are about losing weight, getting that dream promotion or giving up some unbeneficial habits. But my husband and I (gosh I sound like the Queen) and [...]
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5 great breakfast places in Perth
As recommended by Rob Broadfield, author of the West Australian Good Food Guide – so he should know. I’ve just been away on a travel writing trip to Africa with Rob so picked his brains about the best his home town has to offer the breakfast/bruncher. As it happens the 2011 Good Food Guide has [...]
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Auckland’s best restaurants for 2010
We all have our favourite restaurants don’t we? Usually they’re ones we go back to time and again lest we stumble upon an untried dish and be disappointed. My dad is a classic example of this: when he and mum are on holiday, woe betide my mother if dad finds the perfect steak on the [...]
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Fancy a little Mexican?
Auckland Scene: I’ll be the first to admit that my knowledge of all things Mexican is limited to a very shaky rendition of Ricky Martin’s Living La Vida Loca at karaoke bars. I did have an authentic Mexican dining experience once, just outside of Orange County, California; a great little place wedged firmly between a [...]
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Looking for good curry in Taupo?
When you’re making the pilgrimage from Auckland to Hawkes Bay, as one is want to do when a whanau weekend beckons, where to stop and eat in Taupo is very important. If I’m roaring through around brunch-o’clock I’ll stop at Replete on HeuHeu street, which also has a very nice kitchenware shop attached. You can [...]
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Sentosa Resort comes to the rescue
Oh how we love social media! Look what a tweet did: So there I am in Singapore on my way to London staying in a very basic hotel near pretty much not much at all. The reservation girl was going to give me a single bed but in the end found a room with 2 [...]
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Auckland’s best Indian restaurant
I love a good curry and reckon I’ve found the best restaurant this side of… London. Oh Calcutta should be a pilgrimage every curry-lover must make. Have a read, pop along and tell me it’s not so.
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Merediths: voted Auckland’s best restaurant
Michael Meredith has still got lips talking and mouths watering as his highly acclaimed restaurant – Merediths – took out top spot in the prestigious Metro Magazine Restaurant of the Year award for Auckland. It also won Best Formal Restaurant in Auckland. Metro judges spent 3 months visiting and revisiting restaurants in the city to [...]
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The 4 most expensive burgers in America
Oh how the other half live! Here I am writing tweets, blogs and newspaper articles about how to holiday/eat/drink and basically have a wild old time on a recession budget, when this Top 4 list of the most expensive hamburgers in the world lands in my inbox. So just in case you have pots of [...]
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