Whenever I walk into this pub I'm reminded that all the great bars I've ever drunk in didn't rest their reputations on looking flashy.

We're not worthy I'd better get Galbraith's out of the way early.

New Zealand's latest Hairdresser of the Year, Sara Allsop, says competitions are great training for young talent.

Cazador is a game restaurant in the old-fashioned sense: if you bring in the spoils of your hunting trip, they will make it into dinner.

There is something simultaneously endearing and depressing about the Speights Southern Man schtick.

Merediths proves to be the place to go for that wow factor in Auckland.

For the first time, a man will soon be tried in another country for a murder allegedly committed in New Zealand.

Buying ebooks may be convenient but it can't compete with the personality and charm of our best bookshops, writes Danielle Wright.

Finding an easy park near stadium gets more difficult.

The lost art of embroidery, once the sign of domesticity and an accomplished gentlewoman, is examined and celebrated by artist Deborah Crowe with a display at Objectspace.

She's probably best known for playing a floozy, boozy nurse on Shortland Street. But since quitting the soap two years ago, Toni Potter has returned to being one of Auckland's best theatre actresses.

Tim Webber plays with form in his designs. He tells Viva what else he's into.

Kiwi singer Don McGlashan has three broken ribs, a broken collarbone and a punctured lung after crashing into a car door that opened in front of him as he was cycling to his Auckland home.

The décor might not score high on style but the attention to detail on the menu does.

A controversial new private prison opened in Auckland today.

Serafin Bueno believed the Auckland Super City's boast of being a "business-friendly, can-do council" when deciding to open a cafe in Mt Eden's dining and bar precinct - three blocks from Rugby World Cup 2011 venue Eden Park.

Gill South tries a meditation retreat but finds it hard to keep to the code of silence.