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

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

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

The fire is out but it's still smoking hot at Al's place.

Expert baristas bring passion and flair to a new venture north of the bridge.

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

We're loving the new Outrageous Fortune prequel, Westside. To enjoy a taste of the west, try these three great cafes.

Restaurant Brands increased its FQ sales 15pc as revenue jumped at KFC, and it added more Carl's Jr stores.

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

We love being able to admire the action-packed open kitchen.

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

Menu at Wynyard Quarter restaurant is uninspiring.

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

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

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

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.

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.

On offer is a small selection of about half a dozen different, delectable sandwiches. There's also a selection of sweets from Meola Kitchen.

Unclean kitchen flues may have led to the fire that caused extensive damage to celebrity chef Al Brown's high-profile Auckland restaurant.

Instead of counting calories, today's diners are often focused more on eating unprocessed foods.

It would take a hard heart not to feel some degree of sympathy for the restaurant owners who have come out swinging against anonymous reviews and the websites that carry them.

Food wars have been taken to a new level after a bar manager wrote a scathing online review about a rival restaurant.

Corelli's has a great location on the corner of Rattray St and Devonport's main drag.

Critics have always aroused ire, but at least today’s proprietors can answer the diners who anger them.

Websites offering customers the chance to review their dining experience were "parasites" on the food industry, says an angry Auckland restaurant owner.

Popular Mt Eden restaurant Molten has hit back at a group of disgruntled diners, responding to their Zomato post by 'reviewing them as guests' on Facebook.

Getting invited out to dinner by a restaurant reviewer is not as good as it sounds. Frank Bruni, the erstwhile restaurant critic at the New York Times, made all the ordering decisions and his companions had to pass their plates clockwise on instruction.