Classic Kiwi-style spot: Purple Weka Café and Bar
Located at 48 Fitzgerald Ave, Purple Weka Café and Bar is one of Christchurch’s best relaxed weekend dining spots, where good fun and great service goes hand in hand with great Kiwi-style breakfasts and lunches. With plenty of comfortable indoor and outdoor seating and onsite parking, the café offers a […]
A culinary competition: FoodStarter
New Zealand’s most innovative and promising food or beverage product may be quietly lurking in a local farmers’ market now and, thanks to a new competition, this time next year it could be on New World supermarket shelves South Island wide. The competition is the brainchild of Ministry of Awesome […]
Oven Envy: Classic Cookers
When it comes to creating culinary excellence, Classic Cookers is turning the heat up, with a range of hand-built electric ovens that combine traditional looks with modern technology. Manufactured in Gloucestershire, England, Everhot heat storage range cookers are cast iron cookers which steadily transfer the heat from their core into their […]
Iconic social space: No. 4
With Cup Week and Christmas on the social calendar horizon, what better place to celebrate than at one of Christchurch’s most iconic restaurants and bars? No. 4 will have celebrations all Cup Week and it is taking bookings for its ‘bus and breakfast’ package now. With Piper Heidsieck Champagne lunches […]
Coffee Craft
An Ethiopian goat herder noticed his flock became rather rambunctious and frisky after nibbling from a tree of coffee cherries – and so goes the origin of coffee. Another belief is a healer roasted raw beans to remove bitterness and voila! Next came the Ottoman empire and Indian Spice Traders, then once […]
A new chapter: Via Sollertia
If someone special has bequeathed you jewellery that means so much, but just doesn’t suit, Via Sollertia has a brilliant solution – remodelling – to get the piece out of the drawer and onto you. Jewellery designer Clare establishes the style of jewellery you like, be it classic, modern, art […]
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