By nature, many of our cheap eats fall into the Asian category, so we are always on the look out for a few western places to balance it all out (although we would happily eat Asian every day!) To this end, Mother’s Day provided the perfect excuse for us to continue our search for a delicious roast [...]

The plan was to go to the very popular duck restaurant in Panmure but it turned out they didn’t do duck for lunch so we headed elsewhere. Luckily Queen’s Road has a weath of cheap and cheerful establishments. If I say Nostalgia restaurant is ‘interesting’ it sounds like a euphemism, but that is exactly how I would describe [...]

We were on a mission to try a new tapas restaurant, but they were closed for lunch, so off we went to the “open all hours” Selera Malaysian Café. This is one of Auckland’s very popular Malaysian food court style restaurants that serves good authentic Malaysian food. It is located near the corner of Khyber [...]

With the school holidays on there’s been a few lazy cooking days for myself and Lynn. For something different we thought we’d review a couple of our local thai takeouts. With winter approaching it’s always good to know where to go when you need warming food which is not going to require you getting out [...]

On a rare night without kids we headed into Ponsonby for a drink and a quick bite to eat. The menu at East looked good and we were starving so we went with that. We were really pleased with our choice overall, despite one minor disappointment. We ordered the Thai Fish cake ($4.90) and the [...]

After an afternoon visit to Beerfest and realising we were not twenty-something anymore, we decided to go and have a civilised meal somewhere close to the Cloud. There were a number of places on Commerce street which had excellent Cheap Eats potential but we settled on Sanchun Bamboo. They had a favourable snippet from Metro [...]