Heralded as one of Auckland's trendiest restaurants, the uber cool Soul Bar & Bistro is supposedly the place to go for a spot of celebrity watching in Auckland. At least, that's what Metro magazine had to say in 2008, when it voted the terrace at Soul on a Friday afternoon, the "Best Time & Place for Celebrity Spotting". Soul can boast a host of other awards as well, including Winner of the Hospitality Association of New Zealand Awards for Best Restaurant and Excellence in Customer Service in 2009, and Best Casual Dining (Metropolitan) Cuisine Magazine NZ Restaurant of the Year Awards 2009. The list is extensive and can be seen on their website's awards page. All this made for impressive reading, so I decided it would be the ideal place to treat Mother for a Mother's Day lunch.
