[Pictures: David Straight] They say if you want to eat the best French food in the world, go to Tokyo. Now we can see why. Morita is a Japanese-French restaurant. Yes. It’s not for everyone, in an unprepossessing basement on Mills Lane that is painted black and has neoclassical white columns. It’s formal – there [...]
Thursday, December 9, 2010
[Pictures: David Straight] Industry Zen has such promise. It used to be Rikka at Victoria Park Market: now, it’s moved to Customs Street West in the Viaduct, where the fitout is all industrial punk Japanese and dark wood. It may be the most glamorous Japanese restaurant in Auckland. But it has a floor show. [...]
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
[Pictures: Todd Eyre] Be prepared to leave full. “Ima” means “mother” in Hebrew, and owner Yael Shochat – ever the good Jewish mama – likes to feed her patrons well. She came to Auckland a decade ago from Israel via Britain, and started the Lunchbox, which became Ima, on Shortland Street. There, her shakshuka – [...]
Thursday, October 7, 2010
[Pictures: Todd Eyre] It used to be that if you wanted really, really good Vietnamese, you had to go to Mekong Vietnamese at the Ponsonby International Food Hall and sit with the teeming hordes and the fluorescent lighting. Or you could drive somewhere way down south of Auckland and feel all smug. No longer: [...]
Thursday, September 16, 2010
It’s all very jolly, like a cartoon of French cuisine. The blackboard on the footpath has loopy handwriting regaling a list of traditional bistro stalwarts – crepes, of course, a boeuf bourgignon, bottles of cider, French onion soup, a green salad. Torchon is the sister to La Cantine du Torchon in Ponsonby and (the much [...]
