Now that cooler weather is on its way, Simon Gault shares some recipes for warming long-weekend food to enjoy at home with friends and family.

Getting invited out to dinner by a restaurant reviewer is not as good as it sounds. Frank Bruni, the erstwhile restaurant critic at the New York Times, made all the ordering decisions and his companions had to pass their plates clockwise on instruction.

The aunties rule the roost in the Anzac Day kitchen.

Grabbing that chocolate bar at the supermarket checkout or raiding the work vending machine at 3pm is the brain's fault - not the belly's.

Today we remember our boys who faced an uphill battle of the worst kind 100 years ago. On our home shores back in 1915, young Josip Babich had just harvested his first crop of grapes …

Some highlights in an otherwise disappointing performance gives a flicker of hope for the future.

The menu is a collection of freshly made raw meals, snacks, sweets and smoothies all on show behind a glass cabinet.

The recent news that Alison Holst has had to hang up her apron hit Steve Braunias hard. He takes a look at her influence on New Zealand kitchens over the past 60 years.

Two supermarket chains say their supplier has removed a preservative from its cakes which is restricted in Europe due to health concerns.

Al Brown was today announced as the first of three judges on the reality show.

Bella Katz looks at Anathoth Farm brand of jams and chutneys and how the Kiwi expat community is helping the brand in Australia.

Fire may have damaged the interior of Al Brown's Depot, but its reputation remains fully intact. The popular eatery is Auckland's restaurant of the year.

Find all your favourite bits from today's Bite magazine online. Follow the hyperlinks in Jo Elwin's editor's letter and lose yourself in bite.co.nz.

Sliders and freshly shucked oysters will be back on the menu sooner than expected at celebrity chef Al Brown's fire damaged Auckland restaurants.

Ideas abound for autumn’s most versatile fruit so get poaching, slicing and crumbling.

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Sometimes all it takes is a sip of something sensational to put you back on track.

Approaching a decade on the dining scene, Clooney impresses like a debutante.

While the Rendez-Vous has a more takeaway/bakery focus, Le Chef is where you come for a meal.

The home-cooked success of recipe and ingredient delivery service My Food Bag has made Masterchef winner Nadia Lim New Zealand's first reality TV star millionaire.

Pippa Middleton criticised for 'promoting the cruel and unnecessary whaling industry' after writing about eating smoked whale carpaccio.

Like the bar, Mo’s menu is compact but classic.

Jamie Oliver has called for a Singapore-style ban on chewing gum in public after accusing people who spit out the sticky residue of making Britain look like a "bomb site".

Top Naples pizza chef describes suggestion as "blasphemous" as McDonald's maintains that "even the pizza chefs of Naples have probably bought their children to us at least once".

Find all your favourite bits from today's Bite magazine online. Follow the hyperlinks in Jo Elwin's editor's letter and lose yourself in bite.co.nz.

Chef Dame Alison Holst is no longer cooking, even at home - one of the saddest parts of her decline into dementia, her family says.

Two of Auckland's most popular eateries are closed until further notice after a fire caused extensive damage to their joint kitchen.