Tag: Palate restaurant

  • Souperb Sundays at Palate Raise $7k

    Souperb Sundays at Palate Raise $7k

    Words Vicki Ravlich-Horan For five Sundays in August the Palate Soup Kitchen opened its doors.  Each week two local chefs took their turn in the kitchen to create a souperb dish.  Just $25 a bowl the public lined up to support this initiative supported by the kind sponsorship from Sky City Hamilton. With the generous…

  • Chef du Jour

    Chef du Jour

    words Denise Irvine It’s not often you see chef Mat McLean as a guest in his own restaurant, Palate, all dressed up and taking a seat at a table rather than being on the tools in the kitchen. But there he was, socialising out front last Sunday night while others were running the engine room,…

  • Palate 3.0

    Palate 3.0

    Palate Restaurant has taken the pole position in Hamilton’s CBD, slap-bang on Victoria St, at the entrance to SkyCity Hamilton. The third incarnation of the award-winning eatery which first opened in the city’s south-end in 2005 by owner-chef Mat Mclean, promises to set Hamilton’s culinary scene alight. Synonymous for putting Hamilton on the culinary map…

  • ON MY PLATE

    ON MY PLATE

    Denise Irvine eats at a new place, an old place (but a goodie), and does a shout-out for a local cookbook. Peking duck, the super-star of a tasting menu sampled with friends at the swish new Shanghai Chinese Restaurant, in SkyCity, 346 Victoria St, Hamilton CBD. First we had the duck as traditional make-your-own pancakes: …