Articles by Mika Reyes

This year’s Matariki Festival started on 20 June and will come to an end on 15 July. While some festivities have already come and gone at this point, there are still plenty of events taking […]

New Zealand’s second Taco Bell store will open its doors next week on Tuesday, June 16 at midday.  The Tex-Mex chain’s city-centre location will be at 3 Shortland Street, just off Queen Street. The menu […]

After an eight-month delay, downtown Auckland’s new billion-dollar (yes, with a ‘b’) shopping and hospitality precinct Commercial Bay is due to open this week on Thursday, June 11.  You must know that Commercial Bay includes […]

Police brutality and racism are nothing new. The rise of protests around the world represent the understandable frustration over the ongoing absence of real change and reform. We’ve seen it all before and nothing changes. […]

We’ve got Queen’s Birthday coming up on Monday, June 1, which means if the recent rumours of possibly adding more public holidays in New Zealand remain just that, rumours, this coming Monday is going to […]

Now, this is extremely clever… Good George and Miann now have glasshouse dining structures available to book for private dining at their North Wharf and Fort Street restaurants respectively. I have not been lucky enough […]

Under normal circumstances, my brother and I have Mother’s Day down to a science. We take the family out for Mother’s Day lunch and we give our mum a spa gift voucher so she can […]

With the government’s announcement that we will be moving to alert level 3 next Tuesday, April 28 comes the very exciting prospect that we’ll be able to get takeaways again very, very soon (yes, finally). […]