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VIP VIVA Restaurant month
More than 125 central-city restaurants and cafes will be creating special menus for the third annual Restaurant Month.
The big cheese (+recipes)
Grant Allen travels the country to get the lowdown on artisan cheese makers and their wares.
New labels due to sugar blip
Cereal maker Hubbards has ordered a relabelling overhaul after internal testing found four mueslis had much higher sugar content than stated.
Pub spy: Black Salt, New Lynn
I hate driving to New Lynn. There's something depressing about the endless roadworks and the strange feeling that, once you've arrived there, you've died and gone to strip-mall hell.
Don Kavanagh: Cider scene steals show
Palates are ready for fruity flavours, says Don Kavanagh.
Recipe: Cheese fondue
You might have a retro fondue set lurking in the back of the cupboard, so bring it out and fire it up for a winter warmer.
Here's how to enjoy wine like a VIP
For the ultimate wine-drinking experience go straight to the source
When did vinegar become fancy?
When does a vinegar become a luxurious, sought-after ingredient? When a world-famous chef injects it into chocolates and when the Nobel Peace Prize Awards dinner menu features it by name, that's when.
Gareth Morgan & Geoff Simmons: Takeaways tax will force sensible eating
Given most of this food is high in sugar, fat and salt, it is another milestone on the march to our collective doom, writes Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons.
Review: Clooney, Freemans Bay
Love is ... a menu that dazzles, yet is so entirely approachable.
Festival food goes gourmet at Glastonbury
Now you can chow down on elegant violet doughnuts, smoked ribs or 'Hot Dawgs' from St John. Will Dean loosens his belt.
Denmark: Tastes of northern wilderness
No booking? No problem, writes Peter Calder, who discovers many an alternative in Copenhagen.
Review: Le Garde-Manger, Kingsland
A French restaurant so authentic, even the food has an accent.
Food adventures: Five of the best
Auckland is full of fun foodie adventures to inspire and entertain. Nicky Pellegrino makes some delicious discoveries.
NZ ice safe from E.coli fears
Soft drink ice can contain more bacteria than toilet water, according to reports from the UK and US. But Kiwis are more likely to pick up bacteria from unwashed fruit than from ice in drinks.
Wine: It's got to be good for us
Southern Wines is a winemaking company with a difference. It's New Zealand's sole producer of resveratrol-enhanced wine (REW).