We came here because a friend was over from Australia and we were on a shopping mission in Newmarket.

The Westin Hotel's trendy restaurant provides suitable sustenance for a glamorous crowd.

Wellington's Logan Brown Restaurant & Bar is offering 80 people the cheap lunch to raise awareness about climate change.

The bad times are coming to an end, we're told, and Sails can prove it.

Publicans in suburban Auckland reckon the city council should leave the running of neighbourhood bars to the locals.

Trained security guards will be posted outside top Auckland restaurants under planned city council liquor law changes.

Nici Wickes is disappointed on a long-awaited visit to Antoine's.

We came here because we were en route to Newmarket when we saw Verve’s gorgeous, sun-drenched deck

There's good solid Thai food to be found in the suburbs, finds Peter Calder.

A wave of new restaurants are taking on the recession and some established rivals to put some heat on the dining scene.

US reviewers for the famously secretive guides sacrifice a century of tradition by discussing the dark arts of their trade on the internet.

A long-awaited visit to a famous-in-Auckland restaurant finds it short of the mark

The meat was superb and perfectly cooked; a mouth-watering crust and tender inside, in that way it's so difficult to match at home.

A new addition to the many bar/restaurants on the Ponsonby Rd stretch gets the formula right.

Phoebe Falconer finds Two Fifteen warm in both temperature and welcome.

Peter Calder finds Clooney delivers a suitably impressive dining experience.

Brought up on a Waikato farm, Michelin star-winning chef Josh Emett is soon to take to the screen with the story of his success.

An Auckland French restaurant lacks consistency finds Phoebe Falconer.

Peter Calder finds Japanese food to write home about.

An otherwise evocative Thai meal is let down by some quick fixes.

Peter Calder finds fresh, fragrant and healthy fare at this Vietnamese restaurant.