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PREGO

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

[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 [...]

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THYMES TABLES

Monday, February 21, 2011

Thymes Tables has closed, but the same owners have opened the Island Thyme Eating House downstairs. We’ll get around to reviewing it shortly. [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 [...]

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THE ENGINE ROOM

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

[Pictures: Todd Eyre] We were greeted with a cocktail menu, a good one. There was a Rhubarb Sour and a Mellow Yellow, a delicious fuzzy confection with tequila and limoncello and gin. The Engine Room is light and bright and airy. There are no table cloths, the service is relaxed but responsive. In fact, the [...]

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CAFE HANOI

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: [...]

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PONSONBY ROAD BISTRO

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

It’s a bit of a pity that the Ponsonby Road Bistro’s footpath tables are often hogged by hard-faced blondes clutching glasses of chardonnay, for it is a very fine restaurant – the kind we here at Eat Here Now would like to see more of. It’s slick but not pretentious, the food is exemplary and [...]

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