Matt Lambert has had heavy traffic through his nearly-new restaurant in New York since getting a Michelin star four months after opening.

New Zealanders trying to incorporate five servings of fruit and vegetables into their daily food intake do not have to break the bank.

The Pinot ‘cousins’ Noir and Gris continue to be popular and finally it seems we’re discovering or re-discovering Riesling. Here are three excellent reasons to embrace them all.

This dip was mentioned to me by a friend who had bought it thinking it was vegetarian.

Life & Style Editor Nicky Park dishes up NZ's latest Food News.

Coca-Cola will launch a naturally sweetened drink with a third less sugar and calories than its regular cola as part of an industry wide effort to tackle obesity.

Goodman Fielder will spend $27m to expand its Christchurch UHT milk plant, giving it additional capacity to meet increased demand in Asia.

Two Countdown supermarkets will soon stand just 500m or so apart at Westgate, Auckland.

An investigation is under way after a 2-year-old girl nearly choked on two rusty metal rings while eating a McDonald's cheeseburger.

Alexandra a tiny sub region of Central Otago has a number of the country's smallest producers who are making delightful wines that are well worth seeking out.

A brand new burger joint, new look chicken joint and a boutique wine festival are all on Nicky Park's radar this week.

Dunkin' Brands Group and Starbucks want a bigger chunk of your lunch money.

We spoke to winners in what we consider a couple of the most personable categories, asking them what they think makes them them best in the biz.

Ponsonby’s Golden Dawn bar has been voted the city’s best in the latest hospitality awards.

The French elite may scorn McDonald's for what they see as an economic and gastronomic horror in the same bun, but citizens in a town in northern France have taken to the streets to demand a branch of the US fast food chain.

In a massive blow to our Aussie mates, NZ brews have taken out prized positions on the podium at the Australian International Beer Awards this week.

Scientists reveal complex combination of chemicals that make the best foamy head.

Hard to believe, but it was only 40 years ago that New Zealand's first sauvignon blanc was produced by brothers Ross and Bill Spence of Matua Valley, West Auckland.

I was alerted to sweet and sour meals by an article in the Sunday Times which found that a sweet and sour ready meal had more sugar in it than a chocolate bar and many others were extremely high in sugar.

Our love affair with pinot noir shows no sign of disappearing and nor should it, with such great wines from diverse locations.

There's so much delicious moving and shaking around New Zealand's culinary scene we wanted to dish it all up in to one big bite of tasty food news.

A team of experts have declared New Zealand Natural’s English Toffee and Rush Munro’s Maple Walnut ice creams as the supreme tastes in the 18th National Ice Cream Awards.

McDonald's Chief Executive Don Thompson, defending the fast-food chain after worker protests this week, said its restaurants pay a fair wage.

New Zealand foodies have taken out culinary royalty like Jamie Oliver, Neil Perry and Oprah Winfrey's personal chef to win at the world's biggest cookbook awards.

A new McDonald's character named Happy is inspiring a different emotion among Twitter users: fear.

Selling some foods without "best before" labels could save millions of dollars and reduce the huge amount of food thrown away each year.

EU is to scrap "best-before" dates on long life food packaging as a measure to stop millions of tons of edible produce being thrown away every year.