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Category Archives: Cheap and Cheerful

SATYA

Monday, April 25, 2011

[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 [...]

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EL SIZZLING CHORIZO

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

[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 [...]

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MEXICAN SPECIALITIES

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 [...]

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EPOLITOS

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 [...]

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NEW FLAVOUR RESTAURANT

Monday, October 18, 2010

[Pictures: Ginny Braun] New Flavour is a fair way down Dominion Road, plonked just down from KFC and in a glut of very good, very cheap restaurants, where, ironically, a meal costs about the same as it would with the Colonel. This is northern Chinese food in big portions: fresh, at pocket change prices with [...]

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