Pestell’s Rai Bacon Company – Nelson Mail 28.03.18
Like many other offices the conversation in our tea room often revolves around food be it what someone had to eat the night before, a new recipe, maybe a new…
Madame Lu’s – Nelson Mail 14.03.18
For two Nelson sisters cooking at home with their mother as they grew up sowed the seeds for a love of food and then when they spent time in south…
Bidfood – Nelson Mail 07.03.18
If you stop and think about the machine behind every item of food you buy, whether it be something from the supermarket shelf of a plate of exceptional food at…
Shayne Cox – Kaimira Estate – Nelson Mail 28.02.18
Shayne Cox, the winemaker at Kaimira Estate in Brightwater, is one of those laconic guys who appears to cruise through life but behind that laid back exterior is a hard-working,…
Andreas Welte – Nelson Mail 21.02.18
“Ask yourself what is correct ethically and aesthetically, and then what is useful economically; something is right if it helps to preserve the integrity, the stability and the beauty…
Townshend Brewery and Martin Townshend – Nelson Mail 08.11.17
I first crossed paths with Martin Townshend long before he started brewing beer, we shared column space in the Nelson Mail some 16 years ago, he wrote a beer column…
Comida Restaurant – Nelson Mail 25.10.17
The new manager of Nelson's Comida restaurant brings an authentic blend of Mediterranean heritage and culinary experience to the role. Aurelie Zentaoui hails from the south of France and more recently the French…
Jellyfish Restaurant and Bar – Nelson Mail 20.09.17
Sitting on the new deck at Jellyfish Restaurant with views across the wharf and down the estuary to the open sea, is arguably the best waterside aspect in the region.…
FORD’s Restaurant & Bar – Nelson Mail 13.09.17
The building FORD'S Restaurant is located in at the top of Trafalgar Street has had many iterations as a café or restaurant since the late 1980’s. I can’t remember what…