Food

Cloudy Bay Pinot & Duck Trail is a colab where you enjoy a signature dish using duck matched with wine, throughout July. Thread was lucky enough to sample the duck and pinot at The Foodstore and Botswana Butchery…

Martha’s Pantry and Arthurs are keeping things moving in Upper Cuba Street in Wellington. Go to Arthurs for a Sunday lunch of roast and then head across to Martha’s Pantry for tea and a sweet treat…

It’s no coincidence that wedding vows have the line: something old, something new. Sure, brand new venues are all very shiny and nice, but they lack that je ne sais quois something special; that charm of the old…

All the books this month are by New Zealand authors – and all of them are scrumptious. I am exceptionally pleased that we are not rating these books in the same way we rate movies – as they would all be 5 out of 5…

Auckland turned on the rain but we were greeted with flowers, champagne and smiles as Thread attended the Tahitian-themed launch of Moët & Chandon and Tourism Tahiti at Soul Bar at the Viaduct…

Sometimes, you don’t want to cook a compilcated meal. You just a nice, easy – and not too expensive – dinner. Help! There’s a Stove in My Kitchen, Family Food for a Steal, and Slow Cooker Simple give you just the ideas you need…

The Beer Festival on Saturday 31st March at the Cloud is New Zealand’s answer to Oktoberfest, just on a much smaller scale. Thread headed down for a mug of brown gold..

Host Jeremy Corbett pits Kiwi comedians Dai Henwood and Paul Ego against each other at SKYCITY Gastrocomique, the annual charity lunch for Make-A-Wish NZ this Wednesday 9th May…

This is my latest food love; a hot chocolate that tastes like molten chocolate and with a wee bottle of vanilla that you can drop into the hot chocolate if you so desire. I’ll pop the jug on…

In a similar vein to saying there is no such thing as ‘Italian food’ as each region produces such varying local cuisine, one could say the same of Spanish food. Although many of us think of seafood paella and tapas, there is so, so much more…