The Nelson Training Centre is a great education facility that focusses on helping young people enter the hospitality workforce, it gives them focus and sets these young people on a pathway that can lead to a lot more than making great food and coffee.
Recently I spent a couple of weeks exploring a loop in the lower North Island, starting in Greytown and Martinborough, then on to Hawke’s Bay, Taupo and finally back to Wellington then getting on the ferry to Picton to spending…
When Nelson’s favourite French couple, Greg and Mylene Auphan, sold Rustic Cuisine on Rutherford St Ian and Pam White picked up the baton. They renamed the café Rust Kitchen & Eatery and have added their flair to the offerings we…
Bob’s Rock Vineyard is a tiny producer tucked away on a hillside location at Ngatimoti. Producing less than 200 cases of wine a year, all made from a single Italian grape variety. For me, it’s producers like this that add…
It all started with a home-built bread oven in the backyard… Bread is one of those staples of life, and has been so for centuries, but over the years convenience and mass production means most of us buy our bread…
It’s time to say goodbye to 2023 and for some, including me, the end can’t come soon enough as we look forward to much better and happier 2024. 2023 was a challenging year for many reasons, but the key driver…
I have huge respect for people who are prepared to put everything on the line to follow their dreams, and I come across a number of these people when I’m writing this column. One such person is Kimberley Eagle who…
Wow, I don’t know where 2023 has disappeared to but there’s just 12 days until Christmas and 19 days we welcome 2024 – that’s just scary! But that also means it’s summer holiday time and it’s time to share delicious…
Victus Coffee and Eatery is a very cool wee spot in Bridge St next to Kirby Lane, it was called The Kitchen until Nick and Beth Schryvers bought the business in June 2022 and rebranded it. The name isn’t the…