Chokdee Thai Cuisine
July 3, 2019
No matter where you look in this delightful region there appears to be a Thai restaurant within a short distance, while the food in the vast majority is delicious one of our favourite places for a hit of spice is…
Kismet Cocktail and Whiskey Lounge
June 26, 2019
Regular readers of this column will know about my love of wine and good food, but what about other drinks? Just as not everyone likes wine, I don’t like gin, I don’t know why but I just don’t like it.…
Root to Tip cooking competition
June 19, 2019
There is a very cool cooking competition happening right around New Zealand right now, it challenges kids from years five and six to create dishes using every part of their chosen fruit or vegetable and they can in to win…
Coffee 101 Bridge Street Nelson
June 12, 2019
Wellington is famous for having more hospitality businesses per head of population than New York City and many of those businesses have coffee as their main reason for being. When we look at how many hospitality businesses are failing in…
Cloudy Bay & Oceano at The Rutherford
June 5, 2019
Winter is finally starting to show up and that means hospitality businesses have time to roll out a few treats for diners rather than just being crazy busy cooking delicious food over the busy summer months. The quieter time of…
New Zealand Raw Honey Company
May 29, 2019
In recent years much has been said and learned about the health benefits of honey, manuka honey in particular, so I thought I would catch up with Terry Bone from the New Zealand Raw Honey Company to find out about…
Doris and her German sausages
May 22, 2019
If you have ever wandered around the Nelson Saturday Market and tried to walk through the main food area chances are you have had to weave your way through the line of people queuing up for a super-delicious and authentic…
Todd Stevens Neudorf Vineyards
May 15, 2019
Each year Air New Zealand supports and showcases a selection of New Zealand’s finest wines, the Fine Wines of New Zealand list is selected by seven Masters of Wine and a Master Sommelier. This year’s list includes four from Neudorf…
Little Beauties
May 8, 2019
I wanted to find out more about the dried fruit I despise with a passion and some of the other more delicious dried treats Ian Wastney and his family produce under the Little Beauties brand. Feijoa is one of those…