About
“All it really takes to be a restaurant critic is a good appetite.” – Ruth Reichl, Garlic & Sapphires.
Welcome to Two Hungry Mums – your annonymous restaurant critics who just want to eat in peace. When the cost of a meal out includes childcare, it’s important to hit gold. That’s why we’re here.
We’re two ordinary mums from Auckland who love a good night out – and for us that means a break from the kids, good company, great food and service and a decent wine list. Should that be hard to find? We’ll cut through the bullshit to deliver our down-to-earth musings on the places we go, the good and the bad.
We live one street over from each other, and share baking and recipes, put out mayday calls for onions and icing sugar and adhere to the old adage that ‘friends who eat together stay together’.
The idea to become anonymous restaurant critics was born out of our mutual love of food. We also wondered if recognisable reviewers get different treatment. Plus there are so many restaurants we want to visit, we needed an ulterior motive. One that we could get past the hangry dads. And so, over a few glasses of wine, Two Hungry Mums emerged.
Two Hungry Mums will give you an honest account of what it’s like to eat in Auckland – and anywhere we go. As anonymous critics with budget constraints and healthy appetites we’ll find the good places to eat on a budget, to splurge for a special occassion, and those to strike off the list.
We believe all it takes to be a restaurant critic is a healthy appetite and we’re willing to give our stomachs a workout to put that to the test. From time to time, we’ll invite two hangry dads to add their voice to the mix, to spice things up. Oh and our day jobs have been the perfect prep but they’re not in the food industry. We’ll keep you posted on that.
For now, bon appetit!
“Going out to eat used to be like going to the opera; today, it is more like going to the movies. And so everyone has become a critic. I couldn’t be happier. The more people pay attention to what and how they eat, the more attuned they become to their own senses and the world around them.” – Ruth Reichl, Garlic & Sapphires.
