The Dish

Cibo's make your own brownie kit comes complete with a wooden spoon. Photo / Babiche Martens

Cookie love

Fans of the award-winning Parnell restaurant Cibo know anything that comes out of chef Kate Fay's kitchen is delicious. This Christmas Cibo is giving you a chance to make for yourself one of their all-time menu favourites - the Cibo cookies. The kit has everything you need, right down to the wooden spoon. How cute is that? $29 from Cibo in the Axis Building, 91 St Georges Bay Rd, Parnell, Ph (09) 303 9660.

Put it on the list

We suggest you head to Sabato in Normandy Rd and try the Italian Talatta Anchovies with truffle, $13.50. They have a scrummy truffle hit to them and are perfect spread through a salad or to top a pizza. While you're there check out the Salsa Pronto Pomodoro, a cute bottle of lightly cooked cherry and mini plum tomatoes with extra virgin olive oil and basil, $7.90. Both would make good Christmas stocking fillers for the foodies in your world. Sabato, 57 Normandy Rd, Mt Eden. Ph (09) 630 8751.

Have and to hold

If you're tired of beer or wine bottles rolling around the fridge, the RakaStaka is for you. It is made up of plastic slides which wrap around the bottles and hold them in place. Simple. Effective. $14.95 or $16.95 for a pack of three. To find your nearest stockist or to buy online.

Menu pick

Oh Olaf! A well-thought out sandwich is a beautiful thing and we're in love with the combo of blue cheese, poached pear and radicchio on crusty raisin bread, baked in-house, of course, at Olaf's Artisan Bakery, 1 Stokes Rd, Mt Eden.

Chai chai

We love this gorgeous chai set, $35, imported from India by Hasta Kala, 65-67 Ponsonby Rd. Also perfect to use for drinks on a picnic.