A suburban eatery itches a scratch and not much more.

We came here because it's a favourite haunt from past visits to Christchurch.

A meal at an Auckland Italian restaurant shows why 90 per cent of its clientele are regulars.

Two nights a week, Parnell's La Cigale transforms itself into an informal French dinner party catering for 140 foodie folk.

A Henderson restaurant successfully spices up a Thursday evening

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.

Hundreds of Auckland bars and restaurants will be forced to close at 11pm under planned city council liquor law changes.

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

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.

Peter Calder finds an Italian restaurant in Henderson packed despite the recession.

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.