php - CakePHP - problem with HABTM paginate query

Question

Tables

restaurants
cuisines
cuisines_restaurants

Both restaurant and cuisine model are set up to HABTM each other.

I'm trying to get a paginated list of restaurants where Cuisine.name = 'italian' (example), but keep getting this error:

1054: Unknown column 'Cuisine.name' in 'where clause'

Actual query it's building:

SELECT `Restaurant`.`id`, `Restaurant`.`type` ..... 
`Restaurant`.`modified`, `Restaurant`.`user_id`, `User`.`display_name`,
`User`.`username`, `User`.`id`, `City`.`id`,`City`.`lat`  ..... 
FROM `restaurants` AS `Restaurant` LEFT JOIN `users` AS `User` ON 
(`Restaurant`.`user_id` = `User`.`id`) LEFT JOIN `cities` AS `City` ON 
(`Restaurant`.`city_id` = `City`.`id`) WHERE `Cuisine`.`name` = 'italian' 
LIMIT 10

The "....." parts are just additional fields I removed to shorten the query to show you.

I'm no CakePHP pro, so hopefully there's some glaring error. I'm calling the paginate like this:

$this->paginate = array(
    'conditions' => $opts,
    'limit' => 10,
);
$data = $this->paginate('Restaurant');
$this->set('data', $data);

$opts is an array of options, one of which is 'Cuisine.name' => 'italian'

I also tried setting $this->Restaurant->recursive = 2; but that didn't seem to do anything (and I assume I shouldn't have to do that?)

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated.

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EDIT

models/cuisine.php
    var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array('Restaurant');

models/restaurant.php
    var $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
    'Cuisine' => array(
        'order' => 'Cuisine.name ASC'
    ),
    'Feature' => array(
        'order' => 'Feature.name ASC'
    ),
    'Event' => array(
        'order' => 'Event.start_date ASC'
    )
);

Answer 1

As explained in this blogpost by me you have to put the condition of the related model in the contain option of your pagination array.

So something like this should work

# in your restaurant_controller.php
var $paginate = array(
    'contain' => array(
        'Cuisine' => array(
            'conditions' => array('Cuisine.name' => 'italian')
        )
    ),
    'limit' => 10
);

# then, in your method (ie. index.php)
$this->set('restaurants', $this->paginate('Restaurant'));