Pohutukawa, getting the boat out, chilly-bins full of VBs - some things are classic Kiwi summer, but fish and chips are a tradition that can’t be beat.
We know you’re eating them - once a week, at least. Maybe parked up next to the ocean, or maybe splayed out on the deck. While you’re enjoying the rest of summer, why not have the best of its fish and chips?

Best Cafe, Dunedin
Best Cafe boasts fresh blue cod, affordable Bluff oysters, and

After a long day heating up under our patchy piece of ozone, there’s nothing better than cooling off from the inside out. We run down the top five places to buy ice cream in New Zealand.

A break from the road trip, a reward for a hard day’s work, a quick, icy hit between catching waves - there’s always an excuse for an ice cream. To get the most out of your cone, we recommend going to one of the land’s best ice creameries.

Some gardeners like it cool, and their vege pots and plots are full of crispy iceberg lettuce, cucumber vines and tomatoes. Others like it properly, scorchingly, madly hot. But the hottest chillies can be tricky little devils to grow. We asked Clint Meyer, chilli obsessive and founder of multi award-winning Fire Dragon Chillies, to share his hard-earned hardcore capsaicin advice. 

Are you the guy who turns up to barbecues with a couple of supermarket garlic breads? Don’t be. Here are three easy recipes – a salad, a meat, and a pud – guaranteed* to triumph in that ultimate potluck test: which offering gets polished off first?


1. Southeast-Asian-style slaw

Mr Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall politely nicked this zingy coleslaw recipe from legend Sybil

Cast iron cookware is almost indestructible, and indisputably cool. Hefty, black, forged in flame: a good pan will sear steak or flash-fry fish like nobody’s business, while making you feel like you’re roughing it on a campfire.

But cast iron has a reputation for being… difficult. Here’s how to nail it.

These warming cocktails will have you welcoming the coming winter with open arms.

Autumn means shorter days and cooler weather, but the evenings are often still balmy enough to sit outside. This is the perfect time to wrap up in a cosy coat and wrap your hands around a warming Irish Coffee.

Bartender Logan Demmy says autumn cocktails generally have less citrus and more body than their summer counterparts — think variations of Manhattans,