Just tap on a screen and watch as your burger's toppings (and calories) pile on, then wait for an employee to bring it over.

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.

Some of New Zealand's favourite fine-dining restaurants have put the bite on customers taking away doggy bags.

McDonald's has been forced to open its first ever restaurant with a turquoise coloured sign after city planners said the signature yellow sign would be too garish.

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.

From restaurants to rocket-builders — businesses of all sorts share a common problem: Finding enough skilled staff. Anthony Doesburg reports.

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.

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

Internationally acclaimed chef and restaurant owner Michael Meredith dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a supermarket trolley boy before finding his calling.

Sarah Lang salivates over the delights to be found at Wellington on a Plate.

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.

Eat first and exercise later, but make sure it’s somewhere different, says Ben Crawford.

The Botanist does more than brunch, or even lunch or dinner.

Red sails in the Auckland sunset are all very well, and I’ve enjoyed them as an eating backdrop many times, but for me seeing a working port in action beats yachts every time.