LifestyleReview: Cassia, Auckland CBDOut in the suburbs it is difficult to suppress a yawn when it is announced a new Indian restaurant is to open.02 Aug 01:00 AM
LifestyleBrunch: Bolaven, Mt EdenThe menu was a cool, hand-drawn selection of breakfast options with a Southeast Asian flair.01 Aug 08:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Temporary GentlemanSebastian Barry’s latest novel is a narrative of disintegration and self-destruction, written in the most lyrical of language.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: The Art of Neil GaimanThis is a very strange book. It's about Neil Gaiman, so it can probably afford to be.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleGerard Woodward: Dumplings of factGerard Woodward’s family gave him plenty of material to write about, but it took years to work out how, he tells Linda Herrick.01 Aug 06:00 PM
LifestyleReview: Touquet, Auckland CBDThe council's new cobblestones will look cool when they're finished, but at the moment O'Connell St is a bit of a mess.26 Jul 01:00 AM
LifestyleBrunch: Ravenhill, Birkenhead PointWe’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.25 Jul 08:00 PM
LifestyleBrunch: The Botanist, Auckland CBDThe Botanist does more than brunch, or even lunch or dinner.18 Jul 08:00 PM
LifestyleReview: Mikano Restaurant & Bar, Mechanics BayRed sails in the Auckland sunset are all very well, and I’ve enjoyed them as an eating backdrop many times, but for me seeing a working port in action beats yachts every time.12 Jul 01:00 AM
LifestyleBrunch: Dear Jervois, Herne BayA popular dining strip has a newcomer, which scores top marks for its attention to details — and its coffee.11 Jul 08:00 PM
LifestyleTina Shaw: Ripples in a pondTina Shaw talks to Rebecca Barry Hill about her connection to provincial New Zealand and why she is drawn to dark crime.11 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: All The Light We Cannot SeeIt’s full of dazzling prose, it’s ingeniously put together, it’s so long it’s a drag to lug around.11 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Tree PalaceIn his second novel, Craig Sherborne presents a family of transients, “last of their kind”, who drift along, squatting in abandoned properties dotted across Victoria’s wheat belt.05 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleReview: Loop, KingslandLoop, with its white walls, tables and chairs plus a rather magnificent curved bar, is a refreshing change in Kingsland.05 Jul 01:00 AM
LifestyleBook review: Empty Bones and Other StoriesBreton Dukes has an interesting bio. He has shifted from north to south — from Whangarei to Dunedin.04 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleBook review: Tenderness storiesPublishers are wary of short stories. They don’t sell as easily or pleasingly as novels.04 Jul 06:00 PM
LifestyleReview: Cafe Viet, Grey LynnNever having been to Hanoi, I might be mistaken. But I suspect the similarities between eating at a street food stall in Vietnam and dining in a Grey Lynn cafe on a cold Auckland winter’s Sunday night are not striking.28 Jun 01:00 AM
LifestyleBook review: The Girl Who Saved The King of SwedenIt starts in the 1970s. An illiterate girl from a Soweto slum is crammed into a truck with a load of potatoes.27 Jun 06:00 PM
LifestyleReview: Gusto Italiano, PonsonbyGusto Italiano is one of those restaurants that makes you feel great the moment you walk through the door. It's light, warm, reasonably 21 Jun 01:00 AM
LifestyleBook review: The SilkWormIt was three months after the publication of Robert Galbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling, that J.K. Rowling was exposed as the true author of "his" crime debut, lauded by readers and critics alike.20 Jun 06:00 PM
