Morocco – Fès
New Zealand – Auckland
Calcutta Wala
Casa da Sogra
Ciao Bella, Clevedon
Coco’s Cantina
Dida’s
Elliot Stables
Faro
Federal & Wolfe
Food Alley
Giapo – #2 #3 #4 #5
Grasshopper
Gusto Italiano
Hulucat Tea House
Ima (mmmmm)
La Cigale
L’Assiette – #2
Little & Friday, Newmarket
Love A Duck
Marvel Grill
Meredith’s Restaurant – #2
Mezze
Oh Calcutta
Portofino, Mission Bay
Queenie’s Lunchroom
Quay Street Cafe
St Tropez
Sun World
Sunday Painters
Takapuna Beach Cafe
Thai Chilli
The French Café
Toto
Vietnam Gourmet Restaurant
New Zealand – Wellington
Boulcott Street Bistro (you MUST eat here if you are in Wellington – take someone you love!)
Brooklyn Bread & Bagels
Caffe L’affare
Duke Carvell’s (everything here is delicious)
Fidels
Le Canard (recommend: soupe basquaise/la planche du canard)
Memphis Belle (fair trade and wonderful in taste. Try a chemex or syphon coffee…)
Restaurant 88 (recommend: drunken crispy salt & pepper baby chicken)
Roxy Cafe
Sweet Mother’s Kitchen (recommend: curly fries/peanut butter milkshake)
The Lido Cafe
New Zealand – South Island – old favourites
A Cow Called Berta
Cafe Rue
Everyday Gourmet
Ironic Cafe & Bar
Mazagran (where I discovered and fell in love with good coffee and muscovado sugar)
Plato Cafe
Riverstone Kitchen – (seriously good scrambled eggs with bacon, toasted ciabatta and truffle oil)
New Zealand – other (not cafes/restaurants)
Auckland Fish Market
City Market, Wellington
Esque Fine Chocolate (try the thyme chocolate…)
Gravity Coffee
Honeymeisters (manuka tonic – kiss goodbye to flu/colds)
J. Friend and Co
La Cigale Market, Parnell, Auckland – #2
The Otago Farmers Market, Dunedin
Trade Aid
Portugal
Cervejaria Luzmar (only if someone else is paying the bill ;-))
Singapore
Fei Fei Wanton Mee
Newton Food Centre
Shiraz (Clarke Quay branch)
Spize The Makan Place (River Valley)
Sushi Tei
The Cheesecake Cafe
The French Stall
Yen’s Peranakan
*Ruqxana’s cooking classes: Cookery Magic
Spain – Barcelona
Amorino
Cerveceria Catalana (oh to drown in the happy land of tapas)
El Quim de la Boqueria – Mercat de la Boqueria (breakfast!)
Les Quinze Nits
Spain – Madrid
Restaurante Botín (a VERY old restaurant – its age alone is impressive – try the squid ink with rice/artichokes with jamon)
