Category: Lifestyle
CADS Auckland’s Diana Rands’ advices on taking it easy this party season. Don’t you just LOVE summer – many of us are on holiday, the sun is shining, and our moods are lifted. It is a very social time, whether it be BBQ’s, picnics on the beach, in the park and of course parties! Like […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. If you like old school American-style brownies, try the raspberry and white chocolate numbers from our Market Stall of the Month. Real Good Brownies can be found at Silo Park, Mount Maunganui, Clevedon, Coatesville, Matakana and have a flavour […]
Lydia Zanetti gives us a list of her GLBT influenced favs for your quiet new years at the beach… Boy Meets Girl: The Myth of Iphis by Ali Smith The sort of book you pick up, read in one sitting and casually start reading again straight away. Short, sharp and simply fantastic. Other highlights: […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. We popped into Scarecrow last month and look forward to seeing it popping up again through 2015. It’s a temporary store in the CBD (will be closed for some of January but looks set to be open for […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. If you’re around Auckland on Anniversary weekend, make sure you pop into the ASB Auckland Seafood Festival (24-26 January) at Halsey Wharf. Aside from gorging yourself on bluff oysters, whitebait fritters, garlic prawns, steamed mussels, juicy scallops and […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Stuff the last of those scorched almonds down your face and make sure you get your fill of cocktails this January, so you can participate in Fab Feb which starts next month (we thought we’d give you some […]
Alexia is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Zambrero We love the new Mexican on K-road for so many reasons. Nice, clean space; super friendly staff; great food and every time you buy a burrito or taco from the lovely folks at Zambrero, they donate a […]
Ponsonby Road’s iconic Shanghai Lils, the classy and opulent establishment has recently booked three of Auckland’s top musicians The Williamsburg Trio to play live jazz / latin / soul / blues every Thursday evening from 7.30pm. I made an appearance last week, and ended up staying until closing – the venue was packed, people were […]