You’d never know it from peering through its windows on Challis Avenue but tucked away inside Lotus, a Merivale-owned bistro that combines European and Asian flavours, is a small but stunning bar that looks like …

It’s appropriate for a bar in the Cross to have an illicit name but when I walk into Bootleg Bar & Italian Food on a Thursday evening it feels more comforting than illegal to me.
Soul …

I’m sitting at the bar counter, 50s music playing in the background, when I notice something out of the corner of my eye – and there, lying near the coffee machine, is a miniature scene …

My memories of Rio are unlike those of any other city I’ve visited. On one hand I saw the most amazing beaches I’d ever encountered, so beautiful they went beyond the postcard images thanks to …