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Words: David BurtonProducer: Louise Starkey
Meet the chefs  changing NZ’s dining scene
Blessed with bountiful ingredients, plentiful seafood and creative chefs, New Zealand's restaurant scene has become as impressive as the country's natural enticements.
We’ve whittled down the list of names you need to know and the restaurants to book before crossing the ditch.
Ahi, the Auckland restaurant Ben Bayly opened in late 2020, is a sleek, contemporary reimagining of bicultural Aotearoa New Zealand. Bayly’s menu displays the provenance of his ingredients, including from the restaurant’s own Patumahoe garden.
Ben Bayley
In a previous life, the chef clocked in at Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris and London, including L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon and The Ledbury, which accounts for his refined and inventive cooking style.
Sid Sahrawat marries the greatest New Zealand produce with the zestiest subcontinental flavours. The menu at Cassia, his modern Indian eatery in Auckland's CBD, is teeming with striking options.
Sid Sahrawat
Having grown up as the son of an itinerant army general, Sahrawat’s culinary influences come from all over India, overlaid with an early career at prominent Auckland fine-dining restaurants.
At chef Helen Turnbull's 50-50 restaurant, local produce is cannily combined with worldly flavours and techniques, especially Japanese, inspired by her stint in Tokyo working at restaurants owned by Gordon Ramsay and Michel Troisgros.
Helen Turnbull
Picture: Facebook | Helen Turnbull
Michael Meredith was New Zealand's undisputed enfant terrible of molecular gastronomy, wowing customers at former restaurant Meredith's with the likes of duck-liver parfait-filled beet meringues as light as air. Now he's back with Mr Morris in Auckland.
Michael Meredith
Monique Fiso's Wellington restaurant, Hiakai, is typically booked out weeks in advance. It offers sublime tasting menus around indigenous myths and concepts.
Monique Fiso
Fiso relies on cultivated vegetables such as kamokamo, an heirloom squash, and heritage potatoes for her memorable menus.
Swipe up for more information on the chefs making their mark in New Zealand.

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