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Category Archives: Bistro

ORTOLANA

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

[Photographs: David Straight] Breakfast, lunch, dinner – it doesn’t matter which you go to at Ortolana, because it’s all brilliant and so we find ourselves there at odd times in search of early breakfast or late lunch. It opens at 7am and closes at 11pm and so you will never be told that the kitchen [...]

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JIMMY THE FISH

Thursday, January 31, 2013

[Photographs: David Straight] Finally, Auckland has a seafood joint that matches the quality of our fish. But that comes as no surprise: owner Jimmy “The Fish” Gerard is something of an Auckland seafood legend. Until recently he was one of the owners of Harbourside, he buys fish for a bunch of restaurants around Auckland, and [...]

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ILE DE FRANCE

Thursday, October 4, 2012

[Photographs: David Straight] Further evidence of life in Newmarket. For years, we never ate here and then, a few months ago, we started coming over more and more – there’s Basque Kitchen of course, and then friends introduced us to Ile de France. From the outside, it looks like one of those classically clichéd French [...]

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SECOND HELPINGS: SUNDAY PAINTERS

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

[Photographs: Todd Eyre] It started as a popup restaurant run by, yes, a group of friends who painted on Sundays. I liked it from the start – the murals on the walls, the hand-written menus, the hand-cut chips. It was one of a wave of post-recession bistros that popped up all over the city. It [...]

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CAZADOR

Friday, August 5, 2011

[Pictures: David Straight] Vegetarians need not apply. Cazador’s Iranian-born owner Tony Lolaiy is a keen hunter, so the restaurant is festooned with the taxidermied animals he’s caught over the years. There are a couple of deer heads in the front room, a few trout; in the cosy back bar – with brilliant panelling – there’s a [...]

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