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Award-winning restaurant offers $3.50 meals

Wellington's Logan Brown Restaurant & Bar is offering 80 people the cheap lunch to raise awareness about climate change.

The Big Cow pub a popular watering hole

<i>Sails</i>, Westhaven Marina

The bad times are coming to an end, we're told, and Sails can prove it.

Plans for bouncers at top eateries

Trained security guards will be posted outside top Auckland restaurants under planned city council liquor law changes.

Early closing plan falls flat in suburbs

Publicans in suburban Auckland reckon the city council should leave the running of neighbourhood bars to the locals.

Suburban bars may have to close early

Hundreds of Auckland bars and restaurants will be forced to close at 11pm under planned city council liquor law changes.

Restaurant grading in new laws

<i>Verve</i>, Parnell

We came here because we were en route to Newmarket when we saw Verve’s gorgeous, sun-drenched deck

<i>Antoine's</i>, Parnell

Nici Wickes is disappointed on a long-awaited visit to Antoine's.

<I>Adriatico Restaurant,</I> Henderson

Peter Calder finds an Italian restaurant in Henderson packed despite the recession.

<i>Antoine's</i>, Parnell

A long-awaited visit to a famous-in-Auckland restaurant finds it short of the mark

<i>Bowmans</i>, Mt Eden

The meat was superb and perfectly cooked; a mouth-watering crust and tender inside, in that way it's so difficult to match at home.

<i>Longroom</i>, Ponsonby

A new addition to the many bar/restaurants on the Ponsonby Rd stretch gets the formula right.

<i>Two Fifteen Bar and Bistro</i>, Mt Eden

Phoebe Falconer finds Two Fifteen warm in both temperature and welcome.

<i>Clooney</i>, Freeman's Bay

Peter Calder finds Clooney delivers a suitably impressive dining experience.

Kiwi chef is on the rise

Brought up on a Waikato farm, Michelin star-winning chef Josh Emett is soon to take to the screen with the story of his success.

Sale provides golden opportunity

<I>French Connection,</I> Eden Tce

An Auckland French restaurant lacks consistency finds Phoebe Falconer.