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Review: Botswana Butchery, Quay St, Auckland CBD
I don't mourn Cin Cin because its spirit has been dead so long.
I don't mourn Cin Cin because its spirit has been dead so long.
It wasn't just the summer rain slicing through the street lights and pelting on the grey asphalt that made me think, for a moment, that I was in New York.
We came here because one of my regular brunch companions goes past this newish cafe and thought it looked worth investigating.
A beach suburb turns up a surprisingly decent dining out option.
Grand. The proof of that is of course in the food.
I'm beginning to consider the possibility that I don't like my friends.
An established restaurant gets its core ingredient mostly right but seemingly at the expense of others.
A Viaduct restaurant provides a convincing combination of meals from all Southeast Asia.
An Auckland icon in a prime locale doesn't quite make the most of its assets.
It's a bit of a hoot that the word "delicatessen" comes from the Germans.
We came here because we'd heard the Pumphouse theatre's cafe had changed hands and it was a lovely day to enjoy the lake.
Auckland is bursting with eateries keen to attract a younger clientele.
The message about locally sourced, seasonal ingredients has been hammered so repetitively that you almost wish a restaurant offer winter greens from Uzbekistan in February. Almost.
We came here because Divan has an all-day breakfast menu so we could pretend it was morning as we sat down to our first meal.
An old story goes that the guides in the Uffizi, the fabulous Renaissance gallery in Florence, would quietly remind visitors that "it is not the paintings that are on trial here".
Isn't Mission Bay a perfect example of the urban seaside? Rangitoto smiles - or in bad weather, glowers - and the wind scoops white-tops across the harbour surface. So why is it the place that good food forgot?
We came here because we often stop for some of their great takeaway coffee en route to the train station at the south end of the Mall and have been meaning to come back for a sit-down meal for a while.
A few tweaks are needed to make this eatery a fiesta of flavour.
An unusual combination of Italian and Iranian, in a Ponsonby eatery, gets the chilli just right.
Regular readers of my restaurant reviews have probably worked out that the Professor is not a shrinking violet.
Here are a few choices to help you decide on where to brunch with the young ones.
We came here because we’d read about the newest addition to the Surrey Cres cafe scene and are fans of Kokako’s other ventures across Auckland, so thought we’d check it out.
A restaurant with a Mediterranean twist should become a local haunt.
Mikano offers good looks, reliability and a sense of comfort with a touch of excitement.
It never ceases to amaze me how wide the range of opinion - or experience, which may not be the same thing - can be about a given restaurant.
We came here because we were on an expedition to Devonport and decided to try this cafe away from the main thoroughfare.