A revamped North Shore eatery sticks to familiar territory on the menu but with mixed results.

Personality number three tempts — and generously satisfies — a somewhat jaded reviewer.

Michael Van de Elzen's chicken venture is operating on a wing and a prayer

Readers from New Lynn will, I hope, forgive me if I suggest that the suburb, the least westernmost part of what used to be called Waitakere City and will always be called West Auckland, is not really a dining destination.

Oh, to write like Alan Bennett. The consummate modulations of mood and structure. The utterly English urbanity and self-deprecation.

Our love affair with Japanese food is becoming ever more intense. A whole generation of Aucklanders is growing up with the idea that the only acceptable quick lunch is a box full of cold rice surrounding slivers of salmon and cucumber.

Mt Eden cafe’s evening fare more than lives up to its daytime offerings.

It was a night full of surprises. First we were surprised to be taken out to Le Vietnamese Kitchen's back room, and find it warmer and buzzier than in the front.