More Asian kitschy-cool, more squint inducing fluorescent lighting, more melamine and acrylic tableware – at Love Exposure. The family of restaurants by the Maignot/Thornley hospitality team, now includes their newest member Love Exposure. Bathed in green and purple light, it sticks out like a sore thumb on the corner of...
Hot Hot is the hot new modern Asian fusion eatery in town. Seems that everyone is talking about it and going there. So my Cheapeats colleague Kate, her partner and I ventured out one mid-week evening to check it out. I arrived early at 5:30pm and snagged a table upstairs...
Summertime and the living is easy…here are some of our favourite Cheapeats restaurants to enjoy over the Auckland summer: Dragonfired, Waiheke Island (nominated by Lynn) Nothing beats eating one of Bevan’s wood fired pizzas or calzones at the beach on Waiheke, except maybe eating his wood fired polenta bake meal....
The rise of the gourmet burger joint has been a happy one. Aucklanders now have more options available to them than they can shake a peanut butter thick shake at. Some burgeries focus on simplicity done well whilst others offer all the bells and whistles and then some. So where does...
Every once in a while we visit a restaurant that is totally worth stretching the Cheapeats budget by a couple of dollars. So it is with the outstanding artisan Italian pasta restaurant, Pasta e Cuore. Owner Stefania Ugolini originates from the Bologna region of Italy, known for its delicious food offerings....
There’s a new restaurant that’s just opened on the Rocklands Avenue block and they’ve got their pink light turned on. Kiss Kiss, the latest venture by the team behind L’Oeuf and Chinoiserie shares her sisters’ winning formula that takes their spin on Asian food (this time from the land of...
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