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Top Tastes is designed to help you find the best food and beverage venues and products; whether you want delicious fish chips, beautiful café food in a winery setting, finely crafted formal dining, food ideas, wine reviews or cocktail recipes this is your guide to the best New Zealand has to offer.
Top Tastes was created by Neil Hodgson and managed by him, he has invited other writers to contribute to the site, this means more regional information will be added as time goes by. You will find a range of opinions, reviews and recipes from people who know their stuff when it comes to food and beverage.
Only reviews written by this select group will be published on the site (you are welcome to leave comments of course) so you will be able to trust the review – no fake reviews, no ranting, just good information to help you choose great things to eat and drink as well as the best places to eat out.
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A Taste of Thailand at Thai Orchid
/in Bev Wood, Restaurants, Reviews /by Bev WoodAn old favourite dining spot in Hamilton East is Thai Orchid. It is nearly always busy and consistently dishes up tasty and well presented food. As in most Asian cafes the menu is quite extensive, so unless you’re like a friend of mine who never goes past Lamb Pad Thai, it can be time consuming […]
When is a wine ‘off’?
/in New Zealand, Phil Parker, Wine Articles /by Phil ParkerThere are a lot of misconceptions around the concept of wine that has gone off. Okay – the classic example is a wine that has been tainted by a bad cork or by unhygienic winemaking. I.e. a ‘corked’ wine. This is why people often sniff the cork as part of the wine tasting ritual. The […]