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SAAN

Friday, November 20, 2015

I’ve been to Chiang Mai, but it wasn’t as good as this. Saan is a very beautiful restaurant on the corner of Douglas Street and Ponsonby Road where there used to be a Video Ezy that smelled a little like stale coffee. Now there’s a restaurant designed by Cheshire Architects that looks all faded and […]

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MATTERHORN

Friday, June 12, 2015

Photographs: David Straight  You might be familiar with the Matterhorn in Wellington: a restaurant that took a strange little coffee lounge and turned it into a legend. It feels like a bar where anything could happen and that might be kind of dangerous. Auckland’s version opened a couple of months back in a big beautiful bricky […]

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BADUZZI

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Photographs: David Straight Finally. Two years on, there is somewhere to eat at North Wharf. It has pedigree: owner Michael Dearth made a name at The Grove for careful, considered dining in a private, bricky space. With Baduzzi, he’s done something else entirely – baduzzi means “meatballs” in the Sicilian dialect. Yes: this is a posh […]

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KAZUYA

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

  [Photographs: David Straight] The food is nothing short of extraordinary, wave upon wave of it, coming out in tiny servings and brought to you by deferential waiters wearing white gloves. The place is tiny and dark, though the outside is completely white, and there are large booths so you can’t hear anyone else’s conversation. […]

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THE COMMONS

Thursday, November 15, 2012

[Photographs: David Straight]  You’ll find The Commons in a stripped-out 1950s department store, all brick and concrete and metal and wood. It’s owned by Pack & Company, self-described “Social Architects” and a company that owns a lot of restaurants around Auckland. Usually, they’re beautiful and they often have a good chef, but they’re not perfect, […]

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