: Auckland's best restaurant 2014

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I made a Venn diagram http://goo.gl/wJfGzP ) of the best Auckland restaurant 2014 using data from TripAdvisor top 50 Auckland Region , Cuisine Magazine's Good Food Guide Awards (announced last night) , and Metro magazine's Top 50 restaurants Both the Cuisine & Metro awards are jury awards with a panel of judges whereas TripAdvisor is based on customer reviews. YMMV.I wanted some form of crowdsourced list & chose Tripadvisor partly because it is international, but also because it actually ranks restaurants ( Menumania Dineout do crowdsourced reviews but don’t rank them).I didn’t try to curate the TripAdvisor list; just took the top 50 from their Auckland Region list which is why it is a bit eclectic: it tends to have a larger number of cheap & cheerful, but popular places, not to mention the more touristy places (e.g. Waiheke winery restaurants) too. Interestingly, since Masu was voted Metro’s best restaurant this year, it has rocketed up the Tripadvisor rankings from 62 to 45 in Auckland Region. It would have changed the picture had I excluded the non-restaurants from the TripAdvisor list, but it's not completely straightforward to do so objectively. So I didn't even try.ETA:I got the Cuisine list wrong. Here is the corrected version. If you've shared the original, please pass on this correction:ETA2: The version 1 diagram is still valid if you think of it as including the "Cuisine-recommended" restaurants instead of the more exclusive "Cuisine Good Food Guide 2014" restaurants.