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Lisa Shultz from the Salut Salut bar in the Welder complex, is an irrepressible character who has been around the Christchurch hospitality scene for years. Salut Salut’s tapas-style bar snacks are cut right in front of you. We often head across to the Japanese Bar Yoku after Salut. It’s the perfect date night, sitting right at the grill as a wagyu heart is seared in front of you and put straight on the plate. The next place is Gin Gin bar on New Regent St. Sitting quietly at the bar is lovely. The time seems to disappear when you’re there, and the cocktails are awesome.

Cazador Delicatessen is on Auckland’s Dominion Rd. Now the temperatures have dropped and those heady days of barbecues on the beach are a distant memory, it's time to look to one of the biggest joys of the cooler months: comfort food. Light, leafy meals are all very well in January and February, but now it’s time to bring on the pies, ramen and steaming bowls of pasta to console us as the days get shorter and chillier. Here are some of our favourites. Cazador’s brisket, cheddar and jalapeno pie There are few people with such an extensive knowledge of meat as the exceptionally talented...

Print Larry Kramer’s pioneering, semiautobiographical “The Normal Heart” was the first major play to give voice to the AIDS crisis of the early 1980s and remains a touchstone of arts activism. Now the L.A.-based ONE Archives Foundation, the oldest active LGBTQ organization in the U.S., has organized a virtual reading of the work featuring a mostly BIPOC and LGBTQ cast including Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox, Jeremy Pope, Jake Borelli. Tickets go on sale Thursday for the May 8 presentation, which organizers hope will have added resonance with a backdrop of COVID-19 and the racial inequi...

Press Release – Christchurch Garden Festival Get a taste of tautahi at Grow in March, as top chefs from around the region share their culinary skills with visitors to Christchurchs very own, FREE, garden festival. Celebrity chef Jax Hamilton will lead a team of top chefs as they take on the plant-based … Get a taste of Ōtautahi at Grow in March, as top chefs from around the region share their culinary skills with visitors to Christchurch’s very own, FREE, garden festival. Celebrity chef Jax Hamilton will lead a team of top chefs as they take on the plant-based Meadow Mushrooms Mystery...

The name Hali is a girl’s name of Greek origin, meaning “the sea”. “I personally don’t believe there is something like this in Canterbury at the moment,” Levy said. The bottom floor of the restaurant has the feel of a beach with a bar and light blue furniture, timber finishings, a large central palm tree and three levels of seating – lounge chairs, booths and bar leaners. CHRIS SKELTON/Stuff Hali Bar and Bistro’s bottom floor is suited to more casual dining if you are sharing a plate or grabbing a drink. The choice of an aquarium-style lift or colour-changing stairs tak...