Rude or romantic: you choose
Ooh la la, we’re turning up the heat this Valentine’s Day for you and your valentine next month. You’ll be thanking us later, after a night of indulging in aphrodisiacs – it won’t just be getting steamy in the kitchen. You can sink your teeth into something special, with two enticing set menus […]
Delightful degustation: Original Sin
On 12 September two of the South Island’s finest chefs, one international bon vivant, five rare vintage pinot noirs, ten tantalising dishes and one great cause will come together for the first dinner of the Old School Chef’s Dinner Series: ‘Perfect Pinots’. Original Sin’s upbeat ambience and immaculate interior will set the scene […]
Temptation is a powerful thing: Original Sin
Original Sin has a great new menu and two fantastic chefs to bring that to you. Stephan and Kristina’s goal is to bring quality food from around the world to the patrons of Original Sin, presenting fresh, local cuisine that titillates the taste buds with variety and flare. Stephan Kriegelstein has been appointed […]
Riverside reinvention: Oxford Terrace comes alive again
Few developments signify the greater rebuild in the way the bars opening up along the Avon River in the central city do. Although the post-quake incarnation of ‘The Strip’ was conceptualised by Antony Gough, it was the building alongside on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Hereford Street purchased and developed by Richard Peebles and […]
Creating places with punch: meet the imaginationologists at Dream It who are designing clever new spaces in our city
As our new city starts to develop and people slowly make their way back into the central city, it will be interesting to see where the winners and the losers of the social scene will be. A bar that just pours beer will simply not make it any more. There need to be other reasons […]