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Cooking has always been the focus of my life, I’ve been a cook since my early teens. However when I left Israel to study in the UK, it really dawned on me just how important good food is – how great food can lift your spirit and make you happy, and bad food can bring you down.
When I arrived in New Zealand during the late ’90s, I couldn’t find the food I loved, so I opened a bistro called “The Lunch Box” with the desire to make food that would lift people’s daily life. The name embodied “food made with love” like a mother sending her little boy off into the world with a parcel of goodness, nourishment and of course a few little treats.
In keeping with my philosophy, when I later opened for dinner, and “The Lunch Box” was no longer an appropriate name, we rebranded as “Ima Cuisine” – where Ima means “Mother” in Hebrew.
Encouraged by the success and rave reviews that our food received, and always looking for opportunities to offer a better dining experience, we have begun a new venture in Fort Street, central Auckland catering for breakfast, lunch & dinner.
At Ima we invite you to enjoy our food – made with love and the finest ingredients – we know it will make you happy!
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Restaurant Review: Ima, Fort St
23 May 2018continue readingFood trends come and go but there is some increasingly hard evidence showing the benefits of a plant-based diet on all areas of your physical and mental health. If you’re interested in this stuff, check out the website of Deakin University’s Food and Mood centre, where they’re taking a science-led approach to nutrition
They recently published the world’s first diet-depression randomised control trial and found that eating the right things (vegetables, fish, a bit of red meat) had a significant effect on treating depression. This isn’t some wellness blogger pseudo-science but hard research that mirrors efforts around the world to discover the effect microbiome health has on everything else.
You have to feed the gut workers in charge of manufacturing the good stuff — processed food starves them and sugar destroys them.
Brunch: Ima Cuisine, Auckland CBD
21 May 2016continue readingA brunch or weekend lunch? Try the shakshuka - this popular breakfast dish - originally from North Africa - works just as well for lunch.
Two eggs poached in a stew of spicy, slow roasted tomatoes with Ima's home-made Moroccan-style merguez sausages served with two slices of Turkish pide ($22) - served in the pan. The best way to eat it is to break the soft egg yolk with the bread and then smother with the sauce and sausages. The falafel ($17.50) is good too. The pitas are made in-house - often in the window to the right of the entrance - and yes, it costs a few dollars more than the regular franchise-approved falafel, but you'll understand the sense of that price differential when you take a bite. Or try the malawach. After all, where else in Auckland are you going to get a Yemenite breakfast? The malawach is a fried puff pastry served with free-range egg, grated tomato, creme fraiche and home-made green chilli sauce ($17.50). The regular coffee is okay, but the Turkish coffee is very good, served in a traditional cezve.
Trip Advisor Reviews: IMA Cuisine
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2017 Metro Top 50 received @ 4 April 2017 The Top 50 Auckland restaurants named by Metro Peugeot Restaurant of The Year 2017
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