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Personality, please

First there was Rosie, Coco and Odette, and now there’s Augustus, Hugo, Madame George and Teddy. Auckland’s dining scene increasingly sounds like a royal wedding guest list, or the worst group of people to bump into on an OE.

The latest proper noun on the block, new Ponsonby Rd bistro Teddy’s, opened in early April. It’s taken over the colonial villa that

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