{"id":66608,"date":"2024-09-07T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/06\/aucklanders-revel-in-status-as-earliest-diners-in-world"},"modified":"2024-09-07T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T19:00:02","slug":"deserted-by-8pm-aucklanders-revel-in-status-as-worlds-earliest-diners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66608","title":{"rendered":"Deserted by 8pm: Aucklanders revel in status as world\u2019s earliest diners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New Zealand\u2019s largest city, no-shame early eating has become entwined in a dining culture where booking a table past 8.30pm is a rarity<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 5pm on Auckland\u2019s Karangahape Road, and the tables spilling on to the street outside Coco\u2019s Cantina are full \u2013 but these aren\u2019t your usual sticky toddlers, or after-work suits. As the sun glints off the dusky-pink frames of her glasses, Gabriella Stead, 32, says she doesn\u2019t care if it\u2019s uncool to tuck into Italian food this early; she and Max Coombes, 34, are hungry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s meant to be kind of cringey and embarrassing to eat early because it means you care about digestion, but it\u2019s all about having enough time before bed,\u201d says Stead, who lives nearby and says she regularly dines at this hour. \u201cWhen you\u2019re out later, you just see people drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/06\/aucklanders-revel-in-status-as-earliest-diners-in-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New Zealand\u2019s largest city, no-shame early eating has become entwined in a dining culture where booking a table past 8.30pm is a rarityIt\u2019s 5pm on Auckland\u2019s Karangahape Road, and the tables spilling on to the street outside Coco\u2019s Cantina are full &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,858,56,382,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-auckland","category-new-zealand","category-restaurants","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66616,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66608\/revisions\/66616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}