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Restaurant review: Chikos
In a not-so-trendy part of town is an eatery offering exciting modern European cuisine with flavours from Bangkok to Texas.

Review: Puhoi Valley Cafe
If the weather's right, you can opt to pack a basket with cheese and antipasto and enjoy a picnic on the grassy property.

Is Taco Bell coming to NZ?
Restaurant Brands is once again stoking speculation that it could bring Mexican chain Taco Bell to New Zealand.

Restaurant review: Miss Moonshine's, Ponsonby
It's all about the meat at latest Ponsonby eatery.

Burger King NZ reports $7.5m loss
The Burger King chain in NZ continues to lose money as sales growth is swallowed up by finance costs and other expenses.

Kiwis eating more Maccas
McDonald's NZ has reported a 2 per cent lift in revenue to $221m as the business grapples with falling sales globally.

Restaurant review: Et Tu, Te Atatu Peninsula
In Auckland's insane property market, Te Atatu North, reinvented as Te Atatu Peninsula, is the new front line of upward mobility.

Brunch: Deco Eatery, Titirangi
The look is five-star. Blond wood furniture, blue Mediterranean tiles on the floor, palms in copper pots and smartly dressed — and friendly — waitstaff.

Kiwi in Mexican Happy Meals
Every Happy Meal sold at a McDonald's in Mexico from this weekend will include a New Zealand kiwifruit.

Auckland's top eateries named
Auckland’s hospitality industry has named its best and brightest for 2015 in last night’s Lewisham Awards.

Brunch: Black and Gold Coffee / Eatery, Rosedale
Expert baristas bring passion and flair to a new venture north of the bridge.

Depot blaze - what started the fire
A wooden rake mistakenly left in a duct contributed to a blaze that gutted the kitchen of one of Auckland's most popular eateries.

Hammerheads owed $400k
Auckland waterfront eatery Hammerheads collapsed last in April owing the taxman nearly $400,000, liquidators say.

Restaurant review: Nanam, Royal Oak
Gone too soon, Coco shut its doors in November after barely 18 months of serving its Vietnamese-inflected pan-Med food.

Leftovers a hefty headache
McDonald’s audits leftovers as other stores explain policies on where discarded fresh produce ends up.

Pie-stuffed crust pizza
Pizza Hut has taken fusion cuisine to an all new level, stuffing eight miniature pies into the crust of a pizza.

Brunch: Mary's, Ponsonby
With a beautiful leadlight feature window, Mary’s is spacious and we liked the art choices

KFC tries to revamp image
Comedian Darrell Hammond portrays KFC's bearded founder in a new set of ads running on TV in the US and social media.

Molten restaurant's official review
We've returned to dine at Molten since the online review incident. The official review is in.

Brunch: Nomad, Pt Chevalier
The service was welcoming, with a bit of banter to take the edge off the obvious fact that the 5-month-old cafe was empty.

Why Auckland lost one of its top restaurants
Auckland may be gaining a reputation as a place where the food matches the scenery, but making a seafood restaurant work on the waterfront is a struggle.

Top Auckland restaurant shuts down
Hammerheads restaurant is in liquidation after occupying a prime waterfront position for more than 20 years.