Irreverent Tui billboards will survive even if liquor laws are reviewed the way the Law Commission envisages: Yeah, Right.

The Govt says it's likely to reject a recommendation to lift alcohol prices.

Closing times at 4am could put a dampener on RWC festivities but the Government says any changes would likely come in after 2011.

An increase in excise tax is among likely recommendations of a report into alcohol to be released next week, the Bill English says.

A new German beer, which incorporates the potentially derogatory name of an Austrian town, has just been given full European Union approval.

Unofficial estimates say that wine sales in Spain, the third largest producer in the world, have dropped by about 10 per cent.

It may have them crying into their pints of Guinness in Dublin, but an Irish-themed pub in an upmarket Auckland hotel has been named one of the top 10 places in the world to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Here today, gone tomorrow. Joanna Hunkin looks at the international fascination with pop-up bars and their rise in New Zealand.

A restaurant in a Parnell listed building proves one worth putting on the weekly outing list.