Down to earth eats: Purple Weka Cafe
Seasonal food crafted with love into healthy and delicious taste sensations – can you get any closer to classic Kiwi cuisine?
The holy grail of a full licence means bubbles with brunch or a beer with your burger. Find all of this and more at Purple Weka Cafe and Bar, a Fitzgerald Ave favourite for foodies and lovers of great Kiwi kai.
Café owner Stewart McDougall is proud to offer hospitality that sees repeat visitors and new faces quickly become regulars. “We have a real community feel here in the weekends, people travel quite a distance for a yak and a laugh. We love that they come from every walk of life.”
The menu and cabinet offers a range locals love: slices, muffins and scones have real pulling power because they’re made fresh on-site every morning. There is always a winter warmer special on the go; it could be lamb’s fry with bacon, slow roasted tomato and home-made tomato relish, or blue cod with garden salad and fries, sausage and mash, or beef stroganoff and rice. Don’t miss their famous whitebait fritters. “We make for a wonderful start to a weekend, a cosy catch up with friends, or a wind down after a few chilly hours on the supporting sideline.”
