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Sweet Somethings

Remembered sweetness is the best sweetness.

Campari Icons 2024 — CALLUM, Parasol & Swing

Metro X Campari

Open for Business

An impressive debut novel from a writer standing out from the IIML pack.

Hard to Recommend

In 2021, a website called Narrative Muse created a stir in the arts community after receiving $500,000 from the government. SAM BROOKS talks to the platform’s co-CEO about what, if anything, it has achieved since then.

Metro Top 50 Restaurants of the Year 2024

Here are the best 50 restaurants in Auckland, and the finalists for Metro's Restaurant of the Year. Presented by Stella Artois.

Pot Luck — Friday 26 July

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Pot Luck — Friday 19 July

With thanks to Atomic Coffee Roasters

Pot Luck — Friday 28 June

The Metro Dining Newsletter

The House that Serato Built

Mariah Carey sings about it and Eminem raps about it, yet few New Zealanders had heard of Serato, the Auckland-based DJ software empire, until the Commerce Commission began investigating its sale. How did the notoriously private company end up making global headlines? Chris Schultz knocked on Serato’s door to find out.

Uneasy Money: Under the Hammer

In the third of a series on the ways arts are funded in Aotearoa, we look at the secondary market — fine art auctions, the new resale royalty and the commercialisation of taonga.

Metro Eats! — Friday 21 July

Festival dining szn + WIN a Dolce and Gabbana Moka Pot!

Metro Eats! — Friday 28 July

Jean's dream restaurant and more!

Pot Luck — Friday 9 February

née Metro Eats.

UPROAR — Awokening

A new, darkly comic take on the Springbok tour protests with an obligatory happy ending.

Ada — Native Hearth

Ada’s new menu is blessed by the shades of nuns and visiting kēhua.

Metro Eats! — Friday 17 March

Presented with Support from Tuatara!

DATE NIGHT

TESS NICHOL has been on and off dating apps for 10 years. In that time she has been on countless first dates, a vanishingly small number of second dates, and fallen in love twice with men she met somewhere else entirely. This is her guide to the best place for a first date in Auckland.

Eating, Alone

The magic of solo dining.

Little Bird Kitchen

Cnr Summer St & Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby

Bar Magda

25B Cross St, Newton

Taisumyun

30 Pearn Pl, Northcote, Northcote

Sue Hsiao Liu Handmade Dim Sum

4 Lorne St, Central City, Central city

Sum Made

11 Davies Drive, Albany

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Metro N°444 is Out Now.

Welcome to the new issue of Metro! The Top 50 restaurants in Auckland! What are New Zealand’s mad scientists up to? Ed Hillary and the (or perhaps a) Yeti! We catch up with the affable Jack Tame! As well as the 3-bodied Jess Hong. A studio visit with sculptor Yona Lee! Sam Brooks derides the dearth of arts criticism! What are the Take Out Kids up to when they’re not on TV? And more, much more.

Cover by Sarah Larnach

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