Having driven past this cafe en route to visiting family many times, we decided to make Catroux our destination at last.

To welcome the Spanish beer Estrella Damm to New Zealand, Life & Style asked three of our favourite famous foodies to pick their top tapas bars from around Auckland. We’ll reveal their picks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week.

To welcome the Spanish beer Estrella Damm to New Zealand, Life & Style asked three of our favourite famous foodies to pick their top tapas bars from around Auckland. We’ll reveal their picks on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week.

The four of us were sitting in Soto posing that daft question: "Which nation's food would you have if you could have only one?" and for the first time I realised that my long-standing allegiance to Italian food might be wavering.

Ticking all the boxes is this village cafe, from its jars of juice to its radically aproned staff — and, of course, the fare .

It was friends who'd moved down country 20 years before and returned to the French Cafe for their wedding anniversary who proclaimed: "It was still brilliant, even better than before."

Breakfast and lunch diners are raving and so, soon, will be evening patrons when Provenance lights the candles for dinner.

An award-winning Auckland restaurant won't have to shut down to fix alleged problems with cooking odours but is still locked in a court dispute with its landlord.

Foodies have infiltrated the racecourse this Auckland Cup week with some of the country's top chefs serving up epicurean delights, trackside.

A landlord's attempt to get an award-winning Auckland restaurant to shut down and fix alleged problems with spreading odours has been dismissed by a High Court judge.

A branch of one of Auckland's largest Indian restaurant chains has been seeking part-time wait staff - but said only "girls" could apply.

The classic, clever cuisine is the real star of this tiny Pt Chevalier eatery.

A trendy pop-up restaurant has outraged customers with 1970s Playboy nudes plastered on the back of toilet doors.

his neighbourhood restaurant’s simple ethos serves it well and ensures you’ll never leave hungry

St Heliers Cafe Bar & Bistro - owned by high-profile restaurateurs Scott Brown and Jackie Grant - has been lauded by food critics but has got offside with its neighbours.

Regulars of the Bridgeway cinema and others who frequent this once-sleepy Auckland suburb, just over the bridge, have known about the Stafford Road Wine Bar for a while.