The culinary offerings of a Ponsonby stalwart won't shake its primary reputation as a drinking destination.

There was a time when a so-called business lunch happily slid into dinner time with the help of someone's company credit card and a lot of fine champagne. Paul Little looks back nostalgically at a bygone era and compares then with now.

Please add the name of Elizabeth Harrower to the embarrassingly long list of authors I should have read years ago.

Are parents getting value for money at a private school, or would their children be just as happy, successful and rounded at the local state option?

About a month after I moved out of home, I began to collect plastic bags inside a larger plastic bag. It heralded the beginning of adulthood.

Japanese eatery takes a simple approach with unbelievable results, and continues to live up to its high standards.

Anthony Bourdain, the bad boy of New York restaurants and intrepid travel, talks to Kirsten Matthew about life on the road, mellowing with age and his new TV series.

"The restaurant where this pilaf is served has been in existence since 1923. It is a Bombay landmark," Madhur Jaffrey writes in Vegetarian India.

She's best known to the world as a writer of Indian food books, however, as Madhur Jaffrey tells Michele Kayal, her first love is the theatre.

"Tell me what you eat," said the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1825, "and I'll tell you what you are."

Here are the highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Crisp resort classics get an update with a nod to all-American sportswear.

Helpful team go all-out to ensure a memorable evening.

Sinclair McKay is enthralled by superb histories that chart mankind's flirtation with global disaster.

The ex-Spice Girl and ex-footballer now earn more than they did during the careers in which they made their names, write Gordon Rayner and Christopher Williams.

Find out what we can expect to see, use, wear, drive, drink and eat this year.

Actor Martin Henderson talks about why he once wanted to give up television work and why he remains resolutely Kiwi despite his Hollywood success.

Here are the highlights from tomorrow's Canvas magazine.

Bringing you our favourite features from 2015. If you missed them the first time around, now's the perfect time to catch up.