A Taste of France

is the place to find fantastic seasonal fruit and vegetables, this produce always arrives bright and early every Saturday & Sunday mornings fresh from local growers. You can see the benefit of locally grown produce by its rich and glossy colours and the taste, which is unbelievable and incomparable with mass-produced produce.

French Style Farmers Market Saturday and Sunday mornings

The La Cigale Fromagerie offers a delicious range of French, Italian, Swiss, Spanish and British Cheeses as well as a collection of French delicacies, including our famous La Cigale Chicken Liver Pate, made fresh every week.


Fresh Fruit and Vegetables, Freshly Baked Bread, Delicious Cakes & Slices, Spices, Olives, Olive Oils, Crushed Garlic & Ginger, Jams and conserves, Panaforte, Paella, Orchids, Smoked Sausages
Freshly made Crepes, Freshly squeezed Juices, Gnocchi & Sauces, Turkish delicacies, Lemons
Organic Chocolate, Floral arrangements, Fresh Meat Cuts, Herbs, Children's Party food, Artichokes, Fresh Smoked Salmon, Pasta and Pasta sauces, Tanna Coffee, Macadamia Nuts,Fantastic Fresh Meat Cuts, Smoked Chicken, Wild Duck Salami, Barbeque Prawns, Home Butchery

549 Great North Road - Grey Lynn - Auckland -
Telephone: 09 376 6682
HOURS (no bookings):
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 4pm - late
Friday Saturday 3pm - late

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Private PAELLA PARTIES in the courtyard available
- Sunday & Monday, or weekday lunches
Full site under construction

Grey Lynn. Why did they choose that name (no, please don't write to the editor; honestly, she's not in the least interested) for one of the most colourful suburbs in Auckland?

Stepping inside the new Mondial Cafe, Jude, daughter Sian, her friend Karina and I have stepped into another world. Another to add to the six or seven or 22 along the shopping strip outside.

Mondial is kind of, but not quite, French or Italian or Spanish for "the world" or "global". It's a bodega, a Spanish wine and tapas bar, even if it doesn't (yet) have hams hanging from the ceiling or barrels stacked around the walls or ropes of garlic and ribbons of peppers. It has the most important ingredients: Wines. Tapas. Hosts. The space and the people for conversation.

Manuel Garcia was the face and the chat behind the wonderful, sadly rundown Bonita, once the best and likely the only genuine tapas bar in Auckland; his business partner, Pascal Murello, graced tables at Euro for a longish time. Both were lately at Prohibition, the gangster-era theme restaurant in Ponsonby.

Murello's Italian-French origins are in Roussillon, not too far from the Pyrenees, and Garcia is from Leon, the northwestern Spanish city where they know a pintxos or two about tapas.

Article continues New Zealand Herald

• In the 5 years of Molten opening it has received many accolades including:
• Winner of Best Neighborhood Restaurant 2009
• Best New Restaurant of the Year Metro Magazine, 2005
• Metro top 50 restaurants 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
• Awarded four and a half out of five, New Zealand Herald 2006, 2007, 2008
• Winners of the Vintners Restaurant of the year 2005
• Finalist in Cuisine Restaurant of the Year 2006, 2007, 2008
• Food and Wine (USA) World’s Go List Restaurant, May 2006
• Awarded four and a half out of five Sunday Star Times 2006, 2007, 2008
• Cuisine finalist 2009
• Not to mention the thousands of returning clientèle.

Molten Restaurant