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Woman in surgery after downtown Auckland fight

Review: Hammerheads, Okahu Bay

An Auckland icon in a prime locale doesn't quite make the most of its assets.

Dita De Boni: Protest for tossers

Tim Parke: Private healthcare threatens public

Expanding New Zealand's pay-for-treatment sector may wreck the free one.

Pub spy: 1885, Auckland CBD

A big bar with a big reputation, the big question on my mind was whether 1885 would live up to it.

Review: Altar Cafe, Mt Eden

A Mt Eden cafe-turned-restaurant has some lessons to learn.

Jock Hobbs deserves memorial: Colin Meads

Review: Pyrenees Cafe & Delicatessen, Remuera

It's a bit of a hoot that the word "delicatessen" comes from the Germans.

Review: Eight Point Two, Birkenhead

The message about locally sourced, seasonal ingredients has been hammered so repetitively that you almost wish a restaurant offer winter greens from Uzbekistan in February. Almost.

Adult pillow blamed for baby's death

David Farrar: The Mayor for all of Auckland

Waiheke Island: Weekend in another world

Wine, food and walks are on offer among the wilds of Waiheke Island, finds Libby Nicholson-Moon.

Brunch: Divan House Cafe, Auckland CBD

We came here because Divan has an all-day breakfast menu so we could pretend it was morning as we sat down to our first meal.

Pub spy: Charley Farley's

It's always a funny experience going into a bar that doubles as a cafe.

Peter Lyons: Lessons from my Father

$200 penalty for yacht sinking that injured woman