When Broccoli Row opened it was tucked away in a small space with a courtyard in the Buxton carpark and its focus on vegetarian and seafood dishes was my first introduction to how good vegetarian food could be, it was…
I first met both Cam Woods and Charlie Unwin through our sponsorship relationship with the Nelson Arts Festival and they have been an important part of the reason my wife’s business, Savage & Savage Chartered Accountants has continued the sponsorship…
When I first realised Chloe Van Dyke was the daughter of Ben and Miranda her entrepreneurial attitude made perfect sense. Way back in the 1980’s Ben and Miranda owned City Lights Café in Hardy St before establishing the NZ Nature…
The Nelson community is a wonderful melting pot of people from all corners of the globe and writing this column has given me the opportunity to meet people who have chosen to make Nelson their home. One such couple is…
Located in Crisps Lane off Hardy St the Nelson Training Centre (NTC) flies under the radar a little but it is an important part of the Nelson hospitality community, in fact it would be fair to say it is an…
The Rata Room has to be Nelson’s best kept dining secret, located in Nile Street opposite Central School it is the training restaurant for the chef and hospitality course at NMIT. Last week the head of the Hospitality School, Phillip…
Is this the future model for food production in New Zealand? I think it just may be. Wangapeka Family Dairy is a business built on a few key principles; firstly, it is a family owned business producing an artisan product…