Saturday, November 19, 2011
[Pictures: David Straight] There isn’t much to look at here. There are plastic-covered tables, cheap crockery and some very badly photoshopped images of dumplings. The lighting is too bright and the place is family run; service is well-meaning but very patchy and once there was a voluble argument in the kitchen. We can’t work out why [...]
[Pictures: David Straight] The dahi puri! The dahi puri! This is why people come to Satya. Well, partly. They’re an addictive appetiser, a bland ball of mashed potato and chickpea atop a crisp chickpea cracker, doused in yoghurt, tamarind chutney and fresh coriander. They’re really good, and sometimes you can eat an entire plate ($8.95 for [...]
[Pictures: David Straight] El Sizzling Chorizo is a gourmet foodcart, the kind of thing you find on the streets of New York and Portland, not Waiheke Island. Owner Corra Anselmi sells three types of barbecued sausage (all $9) from the side of his converted trailer. There’s choripan – Argentinian chorizo, which has a thicker grind [...]
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
[Pictures: David Straight] At Mexican Specialities, you might have to share your table with a wooden skeleton, or you may have to sit below a wall of crucifixes. The restaurant is very small and it is in a forlorn shopping centre in suburban Ellerslie. It’s only open three days a week, for lunch, and it [...]
Friday, December 10, 2010
[Pictures: David Straight] God, Epolito’s is good. If you can be bothered driving out to One Tree Hill. Do bother. The pizzas are huge, ginormous even. Almost impossible to finish between three. The best one, in our opinion, is the artichoke, lemon (real lemon, in slices) and parmesan one. They call it the Eastside. We [...]