Auckland is one of the world's top 10 cities, according to Lonely Planet. We've been asking prominent residents what they think about the city.
I love Auckland for the food.
Twenty great restaurants have opened in the past 12 months, and each of them is different from the others.
Dumplings and boil-ups, sushi and meatballs, laksa and latkes. You could visit two restaurants a day for a month and not eat one bad meal (yet still we all wait outside for a table at Depot).
You see, I grew up in 1980s Hamilton, where there weren't many decent restaurants to choose between. As a family, we generally opted for Pizza Hut, so it's ironic how many of the shirts I wear these days on Seven Sharp are made from their old tablecloths.
