Want to wine & dine Brooke at Prospero?

HazEeN-HacKEr — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:10:30 +0000

Fans of the daily documentary about life in the Auckland suburb of Ferndale have no doubt been frantically trying to get a booking at Prospero, the hottest restaurant in town. Well, its number is unlisted, of course, but if you’re truly desperate, you might want to try having dinner at Partington’s at the Langham Hotel instead. It looks identical to Prospero, and its prices really are very reasonable. Although they don’t have the crispy duck that both Chris and Brooke rave about, they do offer a seasonal menu featuring crayfish for $95 or vegetarian pasta for a measly $46. And if you think that’s ridiculous, perhaps you’re probably not the kind of person who can turn their head far enough around to read the menu PDF, and they won’t want your type there anyway because you might steal their crystal stemware.

I’ll have it on toast, thanks

HazEeN-HacKEr — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:57:33 +0000

So it seems we’re not the only ones who have an assortment of issues with Metro. Spare Room reports that Restaurateur Richard Sigley (proprietor of Wellington’s Shed 5 and Pravda and Auckland’s Jervois Steak House, Pasha Bar and Euro) had a hissy fit over not making it into Metro’s Auckland’s top 50 Restaurants and set up a Serve Metro website (promoted with a full-page newspaper ad) for people to come and bitch in the comments section of a blogspot site about the magazine. Cue the usual bitching back and forth with very few people putting their names on their posts. Yawn.

Hey Richard – if you’d like your restaurants to be viewed in a better light, maybe you should first look into Shed 5′s problems with a serious lack of (fresh) soul first…

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Want to wine & dine Brooke at Prospero?

I’ll have it on toast, thanks