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Top Tastes is designed to help you find the best food and beverage venues and products; whether you want delicious fish chips, beautiful café food in a winery setting, finely crafted formal dining, food ideas, wine reviews or cocktail recipes this is your guide to the best New Zealand has to offer.
Top Tastes was created by Neil Hodgson and managed by him, he has invited other writers to contribute to the site, this means more regional information will be added as time goes by. You will find a range of opinions, reviews and recipes from people who know their stuff when it comes to food and beverage.
Only reviews written by this select group will be published on the site (you are welcome to leave comments of course) so you will be able to trust the review – no fake reviews, no ranting, just good information to help you choose great things to eat and drink as well as the best places to eat out.
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Visiting Christchurch
/in Cafe's, Canterbury, Christchurch, Eats, Neil Hodgson, New Zealand, Regions, Restaurants /by Neil HodgsonPublished in the Nelson Mail 21.11.18 In recent weeks we have been to Christchurch a couple of times and while we have been there many times since the earthquakes the inner city is starting to come back to life. Since the stunning new library opened and the redevelopment of the old strip on Oxford Terrace […]
Arden – Nelson Mail 14.11.18
/in Cafe's, Eats, Neil Hodgson, Nelson, New Zealand /by Neil HodgsonArden is a relative newcomer to the wonderful restaurant and café choices we have in Hardy street, established by Lisa Penketh and her partner Logan Ursell in a small space next to Casa del Vino, it opened in August and has very quickly developed a loyal clientele. It is pretty obvious why customers like this […]