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Pot Luck — Friday 11 April

Food and solitude + Chowing down on chaos + Feijoa overflow resolution

Pot Luck — December 6

With thanks to Atomic Coffee Roasters!

Pot Luck — 31 October

With thanks to Atomic Coffee Roasters!

Pot Luck — Thursday 27 September

With thanks to Atomic Coffee Roasters!

Pot Luck — Friday 9 August

With thanks to Atomic Coffee Roasters

Pot Luck — Friday 5 April

The Metro Dining Newsletter

Review: “100% not authentic” tacos at Ragtag in Westmere

Sign O' the times.

The Great Olive Oil Taste Test

Pepper, banana, apple, rounded, smooth, “cough, cough” — how many different ways can we describe 31 different extra-virgin olive oils?

POWER CUT

How far would you go to save on your electricity bill?

My Life in Clothes — Mitchell Tan

Doctor, designer and vintage clothes reseller MITCHELL TAN would rather eat well than dress well. With thanks to Showroom 22.

Metro Top 50 Wines 2022

The best, most interesting, most delicious wines of the year — from supermarket dependables to top-shelf extravagances and everything in between.

All the winners in our Restaurant of the Year Awards 2021

Who won what. With thanks to our principal partner, Estrella Damm.

Metro Top 50 Cafes 2021

The best places in Auckland to start your morning (or afternoon)

Best of Wellington: SO FRESH, SO CLEAN

New openings in the capital city.

Book Review: SHIFTING GROUNDS — Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau

by Lucy Mackintosh, Bridget Williams Books, 300pp, $59.99

Flagrant Beauty & Cataclysmic Violence.

A geological, historical and literary ode to The North Shore

Whangaparaoa welcomes Arazo, a chilled out Mediterranean-style eatery

It's taken over the spot where The Palms used to be

The delightful madness of an architectural folly

Structures with no purpose, like the Waiheke Gateway Pavilion, can be an eccentric delight.

Esther

4 Viaduct Harbour Ave, Waterfront

Parro

359 Dominion Road, Mt Eden

Advieh

1 Queen Street, Central city

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Metro N°446 is Out Now

In the Autumn 2025 issue of Metro: Cheap Eats is back with the top 50 places to eat in Auckland for under $25. Delight your eyes with a bumper Contemporary Art Special including Emma McIntyre, Ann Shelton, Greer Twiss, Areez Katki, Bob Harvey's memories of The McCahon House parties and a scooter-load of reviews from Sam Te Kani. PLUS: The fall of David Grr, the recovery of Golriz Ghahraman, Anna Rankin spends an afternoon at St Lukes Foodcourt, Metro meets Awful Food Reviews and more!

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