The Larder
In the daytime, The Larder’s plain decor and food cabinets suit its description as a diner or coffee shop, but after dark it has loftier ambitions. After all, few coffee […]
Tom’s May Café
Relative newcomers Maranui and Spruce Goose might get the views and the queues, but Elements is still quietly serving brunch and lunch to Lyall Bay locals. The menu is hearty […]
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Tom’s Café pick for April
Many features of Poneke betray its Mojo heritage, but with some notable differences. For a start, the Martin Bosley influence means that there’s more emphasis on meals, not just coffee […]
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Food: Cheap Eats 2015
And by casual, I really mean casual. Some critics consider a restaurant with $40 mains ‘casual’ if the sommelier isn’t French, but for the majority of us it means we’re […]
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Whitebait
We’re told that Whitebait is not just a relocated White House; it’s part of the trend away from stilted ‘fine dining’ to a more casual experience, though still with high-end […]
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The Bresolin
I was overjoyed when I first heard that the Bresolin boys were taking over the old Bodega: if anyone had the skills and reputation to make a slightly fringe location […]
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Tom’s March café
I’ve generally been dismayed by the inexorable southward creep of chain cafés along Cuba Street, but I’ll make an exception for Kaffee Eis. They took over a space that had […]
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Cicio Cacio Osteria
There are many pleasures to be had down dark alleyways in Newtown, but few of them are legal. One exception has always been the narrow arcade off Riddiford Street, which […]
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Mexico
I was initially puzzled by the buzz among my friends about Mexico’s imminent opening: they’re not normally the type to get excited by chain restaurants with branches in Takapuna and […]
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Waimea
This review required some mental time travel on my behalf, because while this issue will come out in early summer, we dined in the depths of winter. We tried to […]
