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Reviewed: Grey Lynn's Lilian is hot - just ask the cool kids
"For a few seconds, even the sweat pooling behind my bra strap felt sexy."
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Stories and analysis from The Northern Express Herald.
Kim Knight reviews: Scandal, Ponsonby
Take your senses back to the scandalous 80s at this Ponsonby newcomer.
Restaurant review: Go the whole hog at Grey Lynn's Smokin Cole BBQ
Slow-cooked BBQ comfort for the day after the night before.
Reviewed: Poutine perfection at Little Creatures, Hobsonville
Take the ferry to suburbia, get the chips with gravy and cheese and you'll be very happy.
All plant, no choice - is this the future of Auckland dining?
The "Fanta" is made from fermented carrot juice and that's just the drinks menu.
Feel free to lick your screen: 2019's best Auckland restaurants revealed
If they could wrap it in a nasturtium leaf they did and other truths from a year of eating
The plot chickens: Boy & Bird reviewed
It's a poultry offering but our reviewer is not crying fowl.
Restaurant review: Go big, go Christmas feasting at Cibo
Nothing says Christmas like a strawberry shortcake pavlova the size of baby Jesus' head.
Wynyard Pavilion - Doggone good looking
A waterfront restaurant gets a tasty (and pup-friendly) revamp.
Ponsonby's sexiest vege? Elmos reviewed
"It was a dirty weekend for snow peas and I wanted to jump right in there with them."
Reviewed: iPress, Mt Eden
If your palate came of age around the same time as a vinyl couch, order the chicken.
Review: All sausage, no sizzle at The Bavarian, Newmarket's new roof top restaurant
Vegetarians avert your eyes. The Munich Platter is a towering Jenga with meat.
Reviewed: Dominion Rd's elegant newcomer
Take a seat and adjust your assumptions. Not all noodle shops are created equal.
Takeaway review: Fatima's Ponsonby
Greg Fleming visits a Ponsonby foodie institution - Fatima's
Reviewed: When a gastropub met Gareth Stewart
We took a Brit to The Brit and she loved it - especially the Yorkshire pud.
$25 for five carrots? Only in Epsom
"I counted five carrots and one restaurateur laughing all the way to the bank."
Reviewed: Sake cocktails and the best mushrooms in Auckland
Japanese street food comes to Kingsland and it's yum yum, writes Kim Knight.
Auckland's grandest dining room delivers a dud
Good food can elevate a bad space - and vice versa.
A classy new Thai is spicing up the suburbs
Go beyond tom yum and try the Thai "taco" at a suburban eatery with flair and flavour.
Is French food the ultimate antidote to winter?
Buttery soup and bacony chicken at Le Garde-Manger is a winter treat.
A date-night buffet where shabu-shabu takes care of the small-talk
Swish, don't soak, to get the best out of this all-you-can-eat date night restaurant.
The takeaway: Nashville hot chicken from Hot Lips
Greg Fleming finds some Nashville style hot chicken on Ponsonby Road.
1963 called and said this is the best carpetbag steak in Auckland
A steak (and seafood) dinner for the ages at Auckland's oldest restaurant.
Toto still delivers the best mushroom pizza in Auckland.
"When I die, bury me with a slice of boscaiola."
Winner, winner, fried chicken dinner
A tale of two menus has a happy ending in Karangahape Rd.
Icecream baguette? Newmarket dishes a new dessert star
Four words for the disbelievers: cream bun but better.
All sizzle, especially the sausage: Nanam reviewed
The Cinderella of the small plates section is a skinless sausage - don't miss it.
The best crayfish deal in Auckland?
Inside the restaurant filling a downtown dining gap with lobster, whitebait and more.
