To get to Conch Kitchen and Bar, you go through Conch Records, where there are bins of vinyl LPs. I'm not the target market for the record shop. I know this because I looked between Liquid Crystal and Little Kids and couldn't find Little Feat.

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.

The biggest disincentives to healthy eating are the people who advocate healthy eating.

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.

Out in the suburbs it is difficult to suppress a yawn when it is announced a new Indian restaurant is to open.

The menu was a cool, hand-drawn selection of breakfast options with a Southeast Asian flair.

The council's new cobblestones will look cool when they're finished, but at the moment O'Connell St is a bit of a mess.

We’d peered behind the papered-up windows, anxiously wondering what the new owners were changing on this popular corner spot, so the first chance we could we were queuing at the door.