Review: Gemmayze Street is for everyone

Review: Gemmayze Street is for everyone
The banadoura was a highlight. (Image: Dileepa Fonseka, BusinessDesk)
Dileepa Fonseka
Gemmayze Street is for everyone; this much is clear when you walk through the door.  Well, there isn’t really a door, more like an open archway on Auckland’s Karangahape Rd that you saunter through.  The restaurant is at the back of St Kevin’s Arcade. To get to it, you walk past Lord of the Fries, the White Lady, Tomfoolery and Lowbrow till you hit the palm trees and large windows looking out on to the Sky Tower and Myers Park.  The place to beSit down, look around and see the place truly is for everyone: Boomer...

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