One of the nicest things about visiting Mount Maunganui in the Bay of Plenty is the combination of two of the greatest holiday pleasures: relaxing at the beach and indulging in great food and coffee. There’s no shortage of cafés in Mount Maunganui, from a selection in the main street to beachfront cafés along Marine [...]
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It’s official! One of Wellington City’s most enduringly popular restaurants has now been awarded the title of Supreme Winner in the Cuisine NZ Restaurant of the Year Awards 2009.
Even non-Wellingtonians will be familiar with restaurateurs Steve Logan and Al Brown. Since 2006 they have fronted three series of a television cooking show with a typically [...]
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Here in the Hawke’s Bay caffeine-lovers are spoilt for choice. Aside from the wineries, boutique breweries (anyone for fresh cider?), distilleries and fruit growers the region is famous for, it’s easy to find a first-class coffee.
Usually when I’m visiting Napier I head to Ujazi in the centre of town, but friends have told me I [...]
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Late afternoon and Raglan, in western Waikato, swelters quietly under a blue furnace of sky. Strains of Irish folk music hang in the air and a couple of young Irish guys wander past with surfboards under their arms, discussing the surf in their poetic accents.
It is Saint Patrick’s Day and it is quite fitting that [...]
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