Soul Bar & Bistro - Viaduct Harbour

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.

The Turkish Cafe - Newmarket

Having spent a wee bit of time in that part of the world, I usually find myself somewhat disappointed with most Middle Eastern fare that we have on offer here in Auckland. Most restaurants and takeaways lack authenticity, some are over priced, and a few are just plain awful. So the first time I walked into The Turkish Cafe on Broadway, Newmarket, I was expecting more of the same.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

And so it begins...

Greetings and Salutations to you O great surfer of the web, and thank you for visiting my blog. As you can see, it is somewhat sparsely populated at the moment. And by "sparsely populated" I mean... empty. Hopefully, however it will not be that way for long. I hope, over time, to fill this blog with reviews of restaurants that I visit here in Auckland, New Zealand, and perhaps some beyond, should I venture forth into the wild blue yonder (or grey yonder as it appears to be at the minute).

I would take this oppurtunity to stress that I am no food expert, food industry professional or anything of the sort. I simply like food. As a result I hope this site will eventually be a restaurant review site by the average man for the average man. Will I achieve that? Only one way to find out...

And so, I hope you will return once I have managed to properly start my endeavours. Until then, take care, be safe and happy eating.