Soul Thai takeaway in Grey Lynn

We don't want for much in the lucky suburbs of Herne Bay, Ponsonby, Grey Lynn and Westmere, but we sure could use some decent takeaway options. Many is the evening I've driven forlornly through the neighbourhood, half an hour in the car to save myself fifteen minutes in the kitchen, hoping I'll come across a cheerful Mexican, a plucky Laotian or a busy fingered Israelite to serve me inexpensive, tasty grub from their homeland.

New Mexican in Grey Lynn

Grey Lynn has a new upmarket Mexican restaurant called Ahsi-Itzcalli, a name with some cultural significance but with a combination of letters somewhat further down on the memorability scale than if the owner had banged arbitrarily on his computer keyboard for ten seconds with a hard shell taco.

Good Pie Alert

On Friday night Dougie was up from Hamilton and I put on my best wingman outfit for a night on the tiles. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I was unable to find Dougie a suitable woman, and most of the ones I did introduce him to failed to be seduced by his charms – these charms mostly consisting of clasping the young woman around her waist and squeezing at her rib cage like an angry crab.

Good People Doing Good Things: The Little Grocer

There are plenty of people who love and respect food, and plenty of people who start their own food businesses. Sadly, the intersection of these two groups is so small it creates a Venn Diagram that looks like Cheeky Hobson's cleavage.