Elisabeth Easther goes on a Mission to learn about Hawkes Bay wines.

Food campaigners are unhappy with plans by Food Standards Australia New Zealand to allow food producers to use more of a controversial sweetener.

This is a place providing quality food with a character of its own at a very competitive price, well presented with competent service in a pleasing venue.

Asian markets are developing a sweet tooth, creating export opportunities for Wellington chocolate maker Whittaker's.

The perfect spot for a feed and a few drinks before kicking along to other K Rd haunts.

She saw the words "no sugar" and logically thought she was buying something that was not sweetened. Now she knows that that is not necessarily the case.

WeightWatchers and Kaweka chicken meals have also been recalled due to the risk of possible chicken bone fragments.

Coffee can be more than just your daily morning fix.

For much of the past 35 years, the world for Sjoerd and Marjan Rustenhoven has been a quarter-circle of kitchen floor in the Wellesley St West eatery that has become a city legend.

It was meant to be nearing the end of the big chill, but the frosty months seem to have a second wind. Here are our favourite winter watering holes.

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.

It has been said that Cadbury's Flake chocolate can withstand the hottest of temperatures. In the interests of exposing the truth, Mike Hosking puts it to the test.

The chart below lays out thirteen awesome combinations that are so versatile they can almost all work as a sauce, dip, or salad dressing.

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.

Portraits of Audrey Hepburn and Charlie Chaplin, views of Venetian canals or a growling lion, these artworks all have something in common outside hefty price tags - they're edible.