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The Wine Chambers, Auckland CBD

Wednesday August 9, 2006
Reviewed by Ewan McDonald for viva

Herald rating: * * * * 1/2

Tempura battered huhu grub, smoked kina and sea-lettuce dumplings. The meals have been somewhat eclectic of late, for your correspondent has been a judge in the Monteith's Beer and Wild Food Challenge.

Tempura fugit when you're having fun. Challenge over, it was high time for more familiar fare.

Three of us convened at The Wine Chambers. Good reasons: more than 150 wines on the list by John Ingle, sommelier at Number 5. Can I say, without being impolite, that after two weeks of hops-matched meals I craved a simple - or even complex - red wine? Food with the highest recommendation. No, not mine. Dick and Stuart. They'd been, eaten and enjoyed and I hadn't.

This was an unforgivable oversight. This is the latest venture of Martina Lutz. Finalist in the Lewisham Awards outstanding restaurateur, she's journeyed from the kitchens of Merlot to Number 5 and the Wine Loft. Not so much a journey as a round trip: her new establishment is right across the narrow lane of O'Connell St from Merlot.
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