New Zealand winemakers could stand to benefit from a global shortage of wine, a new report says.

A massive number-crunching exercise has revealed that dishes with bacon really do taste better - and very few taste worse.

Grant Allen discovers there is much to learn from the highly organised Julie Biuso as she cooks in his kitchen.

If you're lucky enough to have caught or have been given a fresh rainbow trout this is a must-try recipe, although it is equally delicious with salmon.

Grilling beef is an art form Argentinians have perfected, as evidenced at Buenos Aires.

Brick by Brick is a funny sort of place. It protrudes from the surrounding buildings like an extension that hasn't been thought through enough.

A sugar-cured, old-fashion leg ham on the bone from a Canterbury Butchery has taken out the title of the best ham in the land.

A bartender from one of Auckland's hippest watering holes has been name the best mixologist in New Zealand.

Auckland bartender Adam Neal has been named the best at the Beam Bar Legend competition. The Racket/Orleans tender beat out nearly 500 other Kiwi mixologists, earning the title at the final cocktail making contest in Auckland last night. Check out the pics from the event.

A Hawkes Bay restaurant has been voted among the top 20 best winery restaurants in the world.

Masu’s robatayaki cooking technique wows Grant Allen.

Join the Indian community as it celebrates the renewal of life with an explosion of colour, dance and food, writes Catherine Smith.

When Sky City's much-trumpeted Sugar Club opened in August, the reviews were not as overwhelmingly favourable as the restaurant's impresario Peter Gordon might have liked.

The menu was a mix of tweaked brunch classics (benedicts, pancakes and omelettes) and an alluring array of less common dishes that we were keen to try, such as eggs cocotte and bubble and squeak.

It's hard work finding the perfect sausage - it takes two days, with almost 50 judges tasting more than 460 entries.

As the weather warms up a whole new range of fruit and vegetables start to come in to season.

It's a food hall on steroids. Dozens of national cuisines are represented by stalls that sell various nations' street-food staples.