Up early and looking for a new spot to dine this weekend? Check out this week's brunch review.

If you think you're doing a restaurant any favours by ordering dessert, you might want to think again.

The reinvention of Fort St makes me feel like cheering. Spruced up and repaved as part of the city's shared spaces programme, it is no longer somewhere worth avoiding.

A seaside location is a huge drawcard for a new Takapuna venue — and the food is pretty good, too.

Heading out for brunch? Check out the latest review in Canvas magazine for inspiration.

The Professor, bless her, doesn't do much cooking. Her idea of dinner is to fry up some courgettes in butter or (as a tribute to her English parentage) make toast and tea.

Colourful, cheap and cheerful, chinoiserie ticks the boxes.

Chefs create culinary magic in the best debut since Orphans Kitchen opened.

The distinctive three-level brick building housing the well-known restaurants Da Vinci's and Number 5, at 5 City Rd on Auckland CBD's Symonds St rise, has been put on the market.

It's hard not to relax and think "a beer, right now, would be nice" as you drive down Bow St in Raglan and catch a glimpse of the majestic Harbour View Hotel.

Food takes second place in Ponsonby bar better known for drinks menu.

Apart from Euro, Apero is the only wine bar we've tried that takes the food side of the experience seriously.

The memory is an unreliable faculty at the best of times. So it may be that I was mistaken in remembering that Only Seafood in Paihia was bloody good.

The Sky Tower’s revolving restaurant Orbit will elevate your special occasion.

The menu is a short, sweet list of just three “morning glories” — bacon and egg doonas, toasted muesli and fresh, warm beignets. Plus the perfectly brewed Havana Coffee Co beans.

She brought affordable, ethical coffee to the city mocked for its love of lattes and the associated Sky Tower-high pricetags.

The professor is a hell of a good sport about getting on the back of the Vespa.

Euro has gone healthy and it’s better than ever.

At long last, Vietnamese food is making a mark in Auckland. In 2009, I lamented in print that there were so few restaurants serving that fragrant and delicate cuisine, even though emigrants and refugees have been coming here for two generations.

Celebrity chefs and restaurateurs have banded together to ask diners to help feed needy Kiwis this Christmas.

A British couple was fined 100 pounds after breaking hotel policy and leaving negative reviews about their experience online.

Harbour views, sunny spaces, public events and safer, greener places for kids to play could all be part of the Auckland waterfront's future.