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Tickling tourists' tastebuds
Auckland Airport is backing a push to attract food tourists to New Zealand from emerging markets.

Golden Oldies: Restaurants then and now
Danielle Wright discovers authenticity is the key to a long life in the fickle Auckland restaurant scene.

Review: Gusto at the Grand, Auckland CBD
One of the difficulties with the shared plates style dominating the Auckland eating

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

My favourite tapas: Delaney Mes
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.

Review: Soto, Ponsonby
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.

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

Review: The French Cafe, Auckland CBD
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."

Brunch: Oliver's, Orewa
If you’re on a jaunt north of Auckland, a revamped cafe has just the thing to calm the hunger pangs — and a standout hot chocolate too.

Restaurant's odour dispute rolls on
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.

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

Auckland eatery wins odour battle
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.

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

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

Mob-themed eateries anger Italy
Italy has turned its nose up at the latest craze in Spanish dining - a rapidly expanding restaurant group called La Mafia, or The Mafia.

Restaurant serves up living wage
Eleven employers have been accredited as the country's first living wage employers - among them, former Cabinet minister turned restaurateur, Laila Harre.

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