Ewan McDonald nominates Mondial Cafe as one of Auckland's best eateries.

Who can be bothered cooking on your holidays? Geraldine Johns picks the best places for cheap, but very good ethnic food.

In the latest of a series on Restaurants of the Year, Viva reviewer Ewan McDonald nominates The Grove as one of Auckland's best restaurants of 2009.

In the latest of a series on Restaurants of the Year, Viva reviewer Nici Wickes nominates The Grove as one of Auckland's best restaurants of 2009.

This place is named after one of the great wines of Italy," I told the Professor's mother as we sat down.

It may have a short name but a tapas-style Indian restaurant in Grey Lynn is not short on flavour.

The olive grove setting is perfect but quality of meals and service needs to be more consistent.

Restaurant Brands has lifted third quarter sales 4.7 per cent, led by strong growth from KFCn.

A Whangarei restaurant delivers on its promises.

Cafes and restaurants prove irresistible to smaller investors.

Divine food, attentive waitstaff: what more could you want for a celebration meal?

Yael Shochat's business has gone through several incarnations but the food and welcome remain impeccably good.

I do not pretend to have closely studied all - well, any actually - of the material presented to the Waitakere City Council and the Environment Court in the long battle to establish a cafe at this iconic West Coast beach.

A restaurant in a Parnell listed building proves one worth putting on the weekly outing list.

Quality and quantity - two things Parnell's Cibo does in spades.

An amazing drive to realise his dream has taken Waikato boy Josh Emett off the farm and into a role at the head of Gordon Ramsay's US and Australian operations.

We don't know who is luckiest - Dutch-born Michel Louws, who has just been appointed the new executive chef at Taupo's Huka Lodge, or Huka Lodge for finding him.

Exotic sweets round off a memorable meal.

Forget what you think you know about pizza, Dante's is here to re-educate us.

Peter Calder finds some failures but also some crackingly good stuff at Adelie.

The Deli, Remuera