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.

Mex and the City

You could list 100 things any given Auckland restaurant could do to improve the dining experience, but approximately 87 of those problems could be solved by simply hiring staff that care about the food they're serving. This was highlighted to me last night at Mexicali in Newmarket, where my purchase of a $13.50 takeaway burrito came with a free lesson in vocational passion from the young man behind the counter.