Karena and Kasey Bird salute their mother’s home-cooked treats.

It's time to dump the sav and the pinot noir and enjoy a "wine epiphany".

'Tis the season for hearty comfort food and wines to match. If you’re looking for cuddly, well-made and red wines that are a bit off beat … you’ve come to the right place.

Out in the suburbs it is difficult to suppress a yawn when it is announced a new Indian restaurant is to open.

The faux outrage over Tim Groser hosting a so-called lavish dinner at which Patagonian tooth fish was served is absurd.

The menu was a cool, hand-drawn selection of breakfast options with a Southeast Asian flair.

British nutritionists threw down the gauntlet to dietary guidelines in April by declaring seven daily portions of fresh fruit and vegetables, rather than the recommended five, were the key to health.

Internationally acclaimed chef and restaurant owner Michael Meredith dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a supermarket trolley boy before finding his calling.

Photos of the delicious pies from this year's Bakels New Zealand Supreme Pie Awards.

It's all very well being able to serve a perfectly cooked piece of meat, chicken or fish but it is the sauces, dressings, salads and sides we serve with it that make a meal deliciously different. Our focus is on such things this week.

‘That Guy’ introduces Delaney Mes to his quirky combination Lork roast.

A service station cafe has been judged to have the best coffee in town - outbrewing specialist coffee chains.

It’s a pity there are so few American wines available here as many of them are drop-dead gorgeous. True, many are extraordinarily expensive but those that find their way here are usually of astonishing quality and value for money.

The council's new cobblestones will look cool when they're finished, but at the moment O'Connell St is a bit of a mess.

We’d peered behind the papered-up windows, anxiously wondering what the new owners were changing on this popular corner spot, so the first chance we could we were queuing at the door.

I thought I had already mastered the art of oriental cooking. After all, I have a wok and a bottle of soy sauce in the kitchen cupboard. Armed with these two essentials, I sometimes grandly announce to the family, "I'm cooking Japanese tonight".

There's a celebratory feel to this week's Bite magazine.

Host of NZ’s inaugural MasterChef, Ross Burden, unexpectedly died from an infection following treatment for cancer. He was 45.

Eat first and exercise later, but make sure it’s somewhere different, says Ben Crawford.

Kiwis are spending millions of dollars a year on beer and wine that packs less of an alcoholic punch.

Karena and Kasey Bird give thanks for their eventful year.

The Botanist does more than brunch, or even lunch or dinner.

In his New book, The Kitchen Magpie, James Steen presents a veritable host of household hints. Here are some of our favourite.

Aucklanders will get the inaugural taste of a worldwide gimmick when the city becomes the first of 130 across the globe to offer smartphone users icecream delivered by private driver today.

Is this the best thing since sliced bread? NZ's major supermarket chains are offering Kiwis super cheap loaves.