The Dish: Food finds around town

Bright custom wrap designed by Miss Crabb.

FASHIONABLE FOLK

Check out the uniforms next time you visit one of Mexico's five locations - Miss Crabb has designed the bright custom wraps based on their classic Turncoat style.

WHAT'S ON

- Now this sounds lush, relaxing with a glass of wine at Stoneleigh's Wonder of Nature. The multi-sensory experience includes a suspended garden by award-winning New Zealand landscape designer Jules Moore and acoustics captured from Stoneleigh's Marlborough vineyards by acclaimed musician Paul McLaney. The R18 event is at Queens Wharf from Feb 28-March 8, 10am-10pm.

- Get in Mardi Gras mode and head to Miss Clawdy for a taste of New Orleans next Tuesday night. From 6pm-9pm Nick D will be providing tunes, there'll be a carnival dance show, and a special menu featuring delicacies such as whole roasted suckling pig with caramel popcorn, oyster shooters and an aged beef, bone marrow and harmony pork burger. Ph (09) 969 6986.

New bagel cafe, Goodness Gracious.

GET YOUR BAGELS HERE

Goodness Gracious (above) opened its doors this week, selling delicious-sounding concoctions such as bagel burgers and bene bagels, made from boiled NY-style bagels. Owner Greg Cornes, who has previously worked at Cafe People on Ponsonby Rd, was inspired by a Melbourne cafe he worked at eight years ago that made a version of the bagel burger. The hole-in-the-wall bagel-stop also offers items such as breakfast salads and coffees, and has plans to be licensed soon. "It's a New Zealand-influenced cafe menu that's been bagel-erised," Cornes explains.
- 2A New North Road, Eden Tce. Ph (09) 368 5800.

MENU PICKS
Our favourite bites right now

• Must-try - the slab bacon from Provenance, more akin to pork belly than bacon, you'll never want the regular kind again.

• The Engine Room's Hahei honey mousse with peaches, topped with crumbled hokey pokey. Late summer on a plate.

• The corn, tomato and salmon salad at Cafe O in Grey Lynn. Bound with the most beautifully light and creamy dressing.

Real Tomato Sauce from Farro Fresh; Ripe Tomato Relish from The Good Store; Pizza 58 Base Perfect Pizza Sauce from Nosh.

GREAT TOPPINGS

Hot dogs I Love Sauce "Real Tomato Sauce" $6.99 from Farro Fresh. Ph (09) 360 0499.

Bagels Ripe "Spicy" Tomato Relish. $12 from The Good Store. Ph (09) 940 3100.

Pizza 58 Base "Perfect Pizza Sauce" $7.99 from Nosh. Ph (09) 531 5366.

- VIVA