A NZ-born Brooklyn-based food photographer has set out to show the world what the sugar found in popular soft drinks really looks like.

A Royal Oak restaurant is bound to convert you to the flavours of Filipino cuisine.

Dr Michelle Dickinson, also known as Nanogirl, is an Auckland University nanotechnologist who is passionate about getting Kiwis hooked on science. Tweet her your science questions @medickinson

Anaheim has a serious beer scene brewing. By the end of the year, the Orange County city will be home to more than a dozen breweries.

The all-consuming fast food chain is being forced to slim down. Is it the beginning of the end for the golden arches?

More than a third of NZ's craft beer brewers are exporting and another third say they plan to expand into global markets, an ANZ Bank industry survey shows.

First it was Burger King Japan with black and red burgers, now KFC China has upped the ante and released a pink burger as well.

When beer lovers congregated for the start of the Great British Beer Festival in London this week, they did so amid a nationwide enthusiasm for craft brewing and ever more exotic drinks.

It's very narrow inside so if you didn't know the other patrons upon arrival, you will soon be rubbing shoulders with them.

Beer gut: It's right there in the name - but it seems that beer might not be as bad for the waistline as previously thought.

Vegemite is being used to make bootleg booze in indigenous communities where there is a ban on selling alcohol.

Tap Bar, the country's first alcohol-free bar, has shut its doors after only five weeks of business on Auckland's Karangahape Rd.

Frozen vegetables and berries sold in New Zealand can come from as far away as China, Belgium and Peru, a Consumer NZ survey found.

On Wednesday night Spy met My Kitchen Rules' winning duo, Steve Flood, 31, and Will Stewart, 37. And we weren't the only ones.

The potato is being credited with fuelling the extraordinary expansion of the brain in human evolution.

As I eat my way around Auckland I have found five pork buns that I need to tell you about.

It's true we need a bit of salt, but very little - half a teaspoon of salt each day is all we need. Kiwis consume an average of 9g of salt each day, writes Niki Bezzant.

Vibrant Malaysian offering from Top chef Josh Emett invigorates Takapuna.

This is the bar you would head to after uni for cheap, fruity drinks and some weird band you've never heard of.

A new video could be just the inspiration people need when it comes to jazzing up their unadventurous lunchboxes.

The doughnut franchise has just opened a store in Reykjavik, almost six years after McDonald's closed its Iceland restaurants.

It's time to embrace rustic comfort foods wholeheartedly; celebrating the healing qualities and traditional origins of bones.

A pizza company's drivers will be able to be tracked from the moment they leave the store to when they drop the pizza off at your door.

A sensation on social media, the new Hamburglar didn't succeed at his main job: promoting McDonald's sirloin burgers.

A step-by-step guide to the dramatic way a can of Diet Coke affects the body from 10 minutes after the first sip until an hour later.

They could have the best job in the world. Dr Rowald Hepp and Simon Nunns are among 13 experts tasting 120 wines each over three days at one of New Zealand's largest wine shows.

In as little as seven days, you could have 19 litres of award-winning homebrew beer - a successful invention which has allowed homebrew kit company WilliamsWarn to eye up the global market.

Dr Rowald Hepp, from Germany and Simon Nunns from Coopers Creek Vineyard in Kumeu are among 13 experts tasting 120 wines each over three days at one of New Zealand's largest wine shows.

Alcohol enters the bloodstream mainly through the lungs but also the eyeballs. Guests are advised to "breathe responsibly."

Olivia Newton-John is releasing her own brand of wine to boost a cancer campaign.