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MOOCHOWCHOW

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

[Pictures: David Straight] We’ve been waiting for this for a very long time. We gave up on Thai in Auckland, sick of canned bamboo shoots, crinkle-cut carrots and watery curries with too much sugar. Then we went to Moochowchow, which opened in April in a big villa up the top of Ponsonby Road that used [...]

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THE FRENCH CAFE

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The French Cafe is a special occasion sort of place, for most of us at least. There are crisp white tablecloths, a hushed (but not stuffy) room, the gentle clink of silver on porcelain, crystal glints and well-mannered wait staff. It is, in short, seamless. Our six-course tasting menu ($100 per person, matching wines $60) [...]

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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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JERVOIS STEAK HOUSE

Saturday, July 31, 2010

When Simon Gault and the Nourish Group started the Jervois Steak House, there were mutterings that no one would pay that much for steak. How wrong they were: four years later, on a Wednesday night, the top floor was full, mostly of men, hoeing into steak. It’s a bricky, simple sort of space: there are [...]

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