Restaurants

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   25
   Jun

   Pork belly get in ma belly! Dinner at The Grove

   Last night I treated me and The Bloke to dinner at Auckland’s number 1 restaurant (as voted by Metro Magazine) The Grove. It was a chilly Auckland night but Thursday parking was good thanks to a sneaky spot outside The Den Adult Concepts on Wyndham Street, which leant all sorts of connotations to The Bloke’s [...]

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   13
   May

   Auckland’s best restaurants for 2010

   We all have our favourite restaurants don’t we? Usually they’re ones we go back to time and again lest we stumble upon an untried dish and be disappointed. My dad is a classic example of this: when he and mum are on holiday, woe betide my mother if dad finds the perfect steak on the [...]

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   3
   Apr

   Fancy a little Mexican?

   Auckland Scene: I’ll be the first to admit that my knowledge of all things Mexican is limited to a very shaky rendition of Ricky Martin’s Living La Vida Loca at karaoke bars. I did have an authentic Mexican dining experience once, just outside of Orange County, California; a great little place wedged firmly between a [...]

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   2
   Mar

   Looking for good curry in Taupo?

   When you’re making the pilgrimage from Auckland to Hawkes Bay, as one is want to do when a whanau weekend beckons, where to stop and eat in Taupo is very important. If I’m roaring through around brunch-o’clock I’ll stop at Replete on HeuHeu street, which also has a very nice kitchenware shop attached. You can [...]

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   1
   Oct

   Sentosa Resort comes to the rescue

   Oh how we love social media! Look what a tweet did: So there I am in Singapore on my way to London staying in a very basic hotel near pretty much not much at all. The reservation girl was going to give me a single bed but in the end found a room with 2 [...]

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   8
   Aug

   Auckland’s best Indian restaurant

   Google Auckland’s best Indian restaurant and it’s no surprise that Oh Calcutta comes up #1. It’s been my favourite for over 10 years and last night I went back after a long time (I moved out of the ‘hood and Parnell seems so far away now…). Meena, the gorgeous owner and creator of the fabulous [...]

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   1
   Jul

   Merediths: voted Auckland’s best restaurant

   Michael Meredith has still got lips talking and mouths watering as his highly acclaimed restaurant – Merediths – took out top spot in the prestigious Metro Magazine Restaurant of the Year award for Auckland. It also won Best Formal Restaurant in Auckland. Metro judges spent 3 months visiting and revisiting restaurants in the city to [...]

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   4
   Jun

   The 4 most expensive burgers in America

   Oh how the other half live! Here I am writing tweets, blogs and newspaper articles about how to holiday/eat/drink and basically have a wild old time on a recession budget, when this Top 4 list of the most expensive hamburgers in the world lands in my inbox. So just in case you have pots of [...]

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