Thursday, September 1, 2011
[Pictures : David Straight] Al Brown hosted us at Depot one night. The next week, we went back on our own dime. Twice. Depot is everything we like in a restaurant. Utterly devoid of pretension (you can’t book), comfortable, easy, immaculate service and of course, casual but impeccable food. We drank wine on tap in stocky [...]
[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 [...]
[Pictures: David Straight] Prego is dependable. An old faithful. Where shall we go for dinner, you ask. Where do you take someone for a business lunch, or your parents, or an acquaintance you’ve yet to gauge? Prego. While its decor is reminiscent of something slightly more suburban, the food is well, dependable. Dependably good. The pizzas [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
[Pictures: David Straight] We’ll go out on a limb and say Thymes Tables is simply the best place for dinner on Waiheke. It’s not immediately obvious as this: it isn’t on a vineyard, and it doesn’t have a view. It’s on the second floor of a building in Surfdale – it’s part of Island Thyme, [...]
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 [...]