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Metro Summer 2026: Out Now

A People’s Guide to the City, Holiday Gift Guide, Cricket & Eden Park, Edges of Auckland, Summer Dining and Wine

Pot Luck — 26 September

Fizzy fun and a fairy godmother

Threads of Belonging

Areez Katki’s art of diaspora, craft and queer fabulation.

Live Through This

Golriz Ghahraman on the trauma and online attacks that broke her down, the mistakes she made, and the work she’s done — professional and therapeutic — to build herself back up.

Pot Luck — Friday 18 April

Goings, goings, gones + Litigious treaties + A pop-up to pop out for

Change Nothing

A morning at the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy King Milutin in Pt Chevalier.

Ūkaipō

A new multi-discipline creative space in uptown Tāmaki Makaurau run by mother and daughter CAT RUKA and LUCIA DAVISON.

A Day In The Life of Auckland

What do people do all day? Metro set out to chart the community fabric of Tāmaki Makaurau and the rhythms of isthmus life over one ordinary day — Wednesday, 30 October 2024 — from dawn till dusk.

Sweet Somethings

Remembered sweetness is the best sweetness.

Metro Top 50 Restaurants of the Year 2024

Here are the best 50 restaurants in Auckland, and the finalists for Metro's Restaurant of the Year. Presented by Stella Artois.

Bianca — Smart business, casual dining

A new pasta restaurant and shop in Ellerslie.

Pot Luck — Friday 10 May

The Metro Dining Newsletter

Uneasy Money: Under the Hammer

In the third of a series on the ways arts are funded in Aotearoa, we look at the secondary market — fine art auctions, the new resale royalty and the commercialisation of taonga.

IN THE BEGINNING

Smuggling booze, full-moon parties and sex in the pohutukawa grove: BOB HARVEY reports on a transformational decade for Auckland’s nightlife. With thanks to Campari

No, you can’t pay in values

How the politics of kindness came up empty.

Osteria Uno on opening up and Bon Appetit

Metro x Stella Artois

Metro Eats! Friday 1 December

With thanks to Stella Artois!

Pot Luck — Friday 1 March

The Metro Dining Newsletter

Cazador

854 Dominion Rd, Balmoral

Nanam

178 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna

The Engine Room

115 Queen St, Northcote Point

Casita Miro

3 Brown Rd, Waiheke

Waku Waku

415 Remuera Rd, Remuera

Tokki

87 Kitchener Road, Milford, North Shore

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Metro Summer 2026: Out Now

A People’s Guide to the City, presenting local recommendations and slices of Auckland life, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, from more than 75 contributing voices. PLUS: What’s happening with cricket at Eden Park, exploring Auckland’s hinterlands to see what makes a successful suburban neighbourhood, where to eat if you’re staying in town this summer, sparkling wine options for all your festive occasions, not to mention art, books, comedy, music, film, and a bumper Metro crossword.

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