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Brunch: Bread and Butter Bakery and Cafe, Grey Lynn

Auckland restaurant boom

The Auckland restaurant scene is showing no signs of being in hard financial times. In the past year, 137 new establishments have opened, and fewer than 30 have closed their doors.

Review: Sake 601, Morningside

Morningside's neighbourhood Japanese restaurant ticks all the right boxes for food and hospitality.

MasterChef contestant graduates Le Cordon Bleu

The first batch of new chefs has graduated from the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Wellington today, including a former <i>MasterChef</i> contestant who will be working for one of the world's top ranked restaurants.

Roxy reopening: 'exclusive but not elitist'

The international DJs have landed, the bar is stocked with exclusive Armand de Brignac champagne at $1400 a pop, and private booths of plush black velvet await.

Melbourne: Delights await foodies

Peter Calder returns to the city that introduced him to decent food.

Wellington: Capital take on burgers and beer

Wellington's food festival is a treat for the palate. Don Kavanagh reports.

Ramsey sued over workers' low pay

Bad grammar - ain't it awful?

Some people ain’t too bovvered by examples of bad grammar. But others, the self-appointed “grammar police”, are quick to frown upon the use of faulty punctuation.

Review: Huhu Cafe, Waitomo

Review: Bellota at SkyCity, Auckland CBD

My mother drank sherry and her twin drank gin. Although this may sound like a line from an old music-hall song, there is a point to it.

Brunch: Devonport Connection Cafe, Devonport

Review: O'Connell St Bistro, Auckland CBD

When dining is this good, it's like a dream. One from which I simply don't want to wake up.

Poet of the plate

French chef Nic Poelaert will cook for one night at The Farm at Cape Kidnappers.

Shelly Bridgeman: Children's menu? No, thanks

When my daughter was about two there were seventeen foods she would eat – including apples, bananas, blueberries, bread, carrots, cheerio sausages, cheese, eggs, fresh squeezed orange juice, fish fingers, hummus, milk, spaghetti and Weetbix.

Award-winning Auckland eatery closing its doors

New Zealand chef Peter Gordon's dine restaurant in Auckland shuts this week so the area can be gutted and the SkyCity Grand Hotel's new hotel lobby bar can be relocated there.