Ill start the ball rolling by plugging a new cafe recently opened on K Rd.

Cafe 361 provides an alternate and fresh cafe look to the "upmarket" and mostly overpriced established Auckland cafe scene.

Its main selling point is its prices, you cant find anything more expensive than $12 on its menu and a $12 meal gets you a hearty fill of great quality and quantity,

Their Ice Chocolates are TO DIE for and on my last outing there I had their Waffles. So GOOD! $5 for the Waffles and $4 for the Ice Chocolate, and the Waffles were not only very well presented but very filling.

there is a place on vulcan lane that does quite nice eggs benedict cant remember the name of the place...... One place i hate walking by is Modus Operandi on high street..... the clothes shop/fashion botique cum cafe where there is a guy hanging out the window harrasing you to eat there........ it just scares me!

i just look in there and they have maybe 4-5 sandwiches sitting in a display fridge and thats it..... their kitchen looks to be smaller than most cubicles at uni so i dont imagine they could cook up much of a storm in there

( A ) This is a REVIEW

( B ) Advertising in the rules states the accompanyment of a link

( C ) Im not telling people who to vote for, Im telling them where a good place to eat is (which is the lesser of two evils?)

( D ) I admit it is a shameless plug though, its a friends place and theyve put a lot into it, it needs to survive or theyll be in trouble financially.

Um that place on Vulcan St is probably either the Occidental or O'Carroll's. I can't remember if we serve eggs Benedict at the Occi, I don't work breakfast. Our mussels are wicked value though. $16.50 for about a kilo of cooked mussels, with fries. Easily enough for two people.

And I'm not promoting the place I work at, just sharing the knowledge.

Modus Operandi serve good food, I had brunch there yesterday morning. That's not their kitchen by the road. I suspect it's downstairs. Not that cubicle :hilarious:

La Porchetta is a good, well-placed restaurant. About $12 for a main of pasta, up to $13 for a pizza, so good value for dinner. I took my girlfriend there for dinner before we went to see Blade: Trinity. 2 pasta mains + 2 glasses of wine for $33.

Other places...

Classy restaurant out west a bit is Point Five Nine in Point Chev. Bit pricey though. Took my ex there for our 6 month, cost about $105 for threee course meal. No wine (was underage).

Vivace on High Street is nice, not sure about the prices.

GPK do the best pizzas around, go check them out in Ponsonby or Mt Eden.

Burgerfuel and Burger Wisconsin are about the same IMHO. And they're both on Ponsonby Rd.

My $0.02. Hope it helps.

Have discovered another Cheap Eats place, on Lorne St (that little street up behind Wendy's and Dymock's).

Shang Hai Takeaways. $4 for a decent Sweet & Sour Pork on rice.

My boss just took me out to dinner to this place called 'C.A.C's or something. At first I thought she'd said 'c.o.c's at which point I was beginning to make a plethora of dirty jokes but never got the chance to use them.

Anyway.

It was set up in this old, rustic building made out of old cool rustic shit. The food was fucking good and the prices would have been through the roof.

They had this live band playing easter-european music and shit.

Fuck it was rad.

your boss, eh?

did he give you dessert, too? :jizz:

Dessert, you say? Actually, now that you mention it, she did, yes. Three desserts, to be accurate.

hehe awesome

Me and Samf ventured to 'Food Alley', which was pretty good. I don't really remember very well where it was exactly, but we had this Korean claypot food. Problem was, lots of garlic and thus my breath has reeked all day.

Gina's along Symonds Street is an awesome Italian restaurant. Cool environment (chefs scream and sing in Italian, Italian music, nicely cosy packed in tables).

Fuck yeah, Gina's is the shit.

The Selly Sausage on Bristol Road in Selly Oak, Birmingham is THE place to eat if you are a student. Cheap with a retrochic feel, you can listen to cool music and play baord games!

Is the Knife and Fork still open by the bridge up nearr the Sainsburys?

Where on Symonds st is Ginas?

Ginas is pretensious and overcrowded... you call it cosy but i like to be able to sit at a table without the person behind me bumping me every five minutes.

I personally didnt like the place

Up at the khyber pass junction on the right side as u are driving up Symonds St, just before the junction.

Wagamama, on High St. awesome tattooed/pierced people work there, but its not at all sleazy- in fact, its the cleanest restaurant ive ever been in.
comes from me and some others who work there who like everything to be clean and nice looking.

the food is freaking awesome, although i dont really recommend the Cha Han, which is basically just expensive fried rice, but the Yaki Udon, the Teriaki Salmon, the Wok Tossed Seasonal Greens, the Tempura Style Chili-Fried Squid, the Gyoza, the Ebi Katsu, the Seafood Ramen, the Ginger-Chicken Udon- fuck. theyre all awesome.

go there if you want casual, friendly, young service (the waiters sit down on the bench next to you while they take your order), the occasional free dish as a 'thankyou', relaxed atmosphere, simple but unselfconsciously stylish setting, and good looking people.

fusion food, western+asian if you hadnt figured it out. huge in london, there are Wagas in belgium, amsterdam (im told), sydney......etc.

plus, i work there (h)

hmmmm. it is and it isnt, its a bit of a seedy place and no one goes there except truckies, in fact im not actually sure that its actually open.

do you know birmingham then?

Isnt all of Birmingham seedy?

no!

cheeky bugger