The four of us were sitting in Soto posing that daft question: "Which nation's food would you have if you could have only one?" and for the first time I realised that my long-standing allegiance to Italian food might be wavering.

Ticking all the boxes is this village cafe, from its jars of juice to its radically aproned staff — and, of course, the fare .

Bite ran a tapas competition and asked the bars and restaurants who serve it to share with us their favourite Estrella tapa match.

American pizza chain Pizza Hut has put a Kiwi twist on its stuffed crust products with the release of the "Chee Zee" Marmite Stuffed Crust Pizza.

The restaurants that entered our competition and the small plates they each created to accompany a glass of Estrella Damm lager.

Bite ran a tapas competition and asked the bars and restaurants who serve it to share with us their favourite Estrella tapa match.

This is a handy guide to flavours that work well with each other with recipes handpicked from Food Hub.

Bite ran a tapas competition and asked the bars and restaurants who serve it to share with us their favourite Estrella tapa match.

The restaurants that entered our competition and the small plates they each created to accompany a glass of Estrella Damm lager.

A downtown Auckland eatery has shut down after being put into receivership only several months after it first opened.

Bite ran a tapas competition and asked the bars and restaurants who serve it to share with us their favourite Estrella tapa match.

The restaurants that entered our competition and the small plates they each created to accompany a glass of Estrella Damm lager.

Bite ran a tapas competition and asked the bars and restaurants who serve it to share with us their favourite Estrella tapa match.

The restaurants that entered our competition and the small plates they each created to accompany a glass of Estrella Damm lager.

About a fifth of young adults avoid eating their greens - but will happily wolf them down if they're smothered in cheese on a pizza, a survey has found.

It was friends who'd moved down country 20 years before and returned to the French Cafe for their wedding anniversary who proclaimed: "It was still brilliant, even better than before."

If you’re on a jaunt north of Auckland, a revamped cafe has just the thing to calm the hunger pangs — and a standout hot chocolate too.

New Zealand feijoas have arrived in supermarkets up to a fortnight earlier than usual, thanks to a warm, wet summer.

Little plastic tubes of sweet, coloured water frozen in the freezer have always been popular with kids.

Josh Emett has revealed a new menu at his downtown Auckland eatery, City Terrace, on the Tyler Street side of Ostro. Learn more about it here from the handsome chef himself.

New Zealand Chef Josh Emett is dishing up a new addition to the hip Britomart precinct, adding a food menu to the City Terrace at Ostro.

A century after the Welsh poet's birth, Kevin Pilley wonders what Dylan Thomas would make of his old boozer.