Pic’s Peanut Chocolate Butter with Whittaker’s
A few of the key factors in the success of any business are being able to adapt, innovate and strive for continual improvement, even if you have the market sector…
Farewell to a year that will long live in infamy
The tumultuous 2020 year certainly ended in this region with an exclamation mark in the form of an extreme hail storm in Motueka and surrounding areas on Boxing Day. My…
Llama Products & Maria Barnes
If you are organised you will have your Christmas shopping sorted (not me!) or at least you will have an idea about what you intend to buy for those special…
Harry’s Fish Shop
Howard (Harry) Morris has been a fixture in the Nelson restaurant and food scene for a couple of decades, initially as the chef at The Cut restaurant that he owned…
Beachside Conference & Events Centre
Just over two years ago I told you about Carol Shirley and her business Gourmet Catering, well a lot has changed since then so I caught up with her a…
The Vegetarian Butcher
A dictionary definition of a butcher is a person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop so how can a butcher produce vegetarian products? I asked…
Rustic Cuisine
Rustic Cuisine on Rutherford St is owned by my two favourite French people, Mylene and Greg Auphan who used to own La Gourmandise. Their latest venture is to develop a…
Food businesses open for takeaways & Hopgood’s Smoked Fish Pate
Many businesses have changed the way they operate so they can start trading in a small way during Covid-19 Level 3 restrictions and food businesses are right at the front…
Lock down recipe – left overs and pantry items
One of the benefits of spending so much time at home, and not being able to just pop down to the shop whenever we want to, is having time to…
Covid-19 Lockdown recipe and wine recommendation
Being locked in for a few weeks means I don’t get to go and discover and write about some of the brilliant local producers so I’m changing things a little;…