Judges ate many hundreds of meals to make up this list. I know because I was one of them. I've put on eight kilos in eight weeks. But it was worth it.
So here is the list. The category winners and supreme awards are announced in the May issue of Metro, and I think you'll find them very interesting and exciting. The most interesting and exciting parts of the top 50 include:
* No place for SPQR, Sails or Grand Harbour
* Botswana Butchery debuts with a bullet
* Nothing on this list from Wynyard Quarter North Wharf but
* HEAPS from Britomart and Federal Street
* No place for Everybody's, or Jervois Steak House, or Fish
* Vinnies is ON! Alphabetically last but not least. Check out the April issue for my review and thoughts on the place
* Cheffy wunderkinds Nick Honeyman and Hayden McMillan make the list for the first time (I think) with their restaurants Cru at Sale St and Tribeca. Good on ya boys!
Questions, comments, outrage? Love to hear it. And find out more goss on the awards at the Metro facebook page.
Right! Here are the fifty best places to eat in Auckland tonight. Although actually, come to think of it, it's a Monday and they'll all be closed. Not quite the powerful finale I was hoping for, this paragraph.
Antoine’s
Basque Kitchen and Bar
Botswana Butchery
Cable Bay Restaurant & Wine Bar
Café Hanoi
Casita Miro
Cibo
Clooney
Cocoro
Coco’s Cantina
Cru at Sale St
Delicious
Depot
Dine by Peter Gordon
District Dining
Ebisu
Eight.Two
Ella
Euro
Harbourside
Ima
Kura
Merediths
Molten
Moochowchow
Morita
Non Solo Pizza
Number Five
O’Connell Street Bistro
O’Sarracino
Poderi Crisci
Ponsonby Road Bistro
Prego
Pure
Roxy
Sake Bar 601
Sidart
Soul Bar & Bistro
Sunday Painters
Te Whau
The Engine Room
The French Café
The Grill by Sean Connolly
The Grove
The Shed at Te Motu
The Tasting Shed
Toto
TriBeCa
Two Fifteen
Vinnies
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