Let’s get cooking
Whether Ecrevisse à la Nage is a week night regular or egg boiling is an issue, an engaging experience is on the menu at Riverside Kitchen. Specialties of the house include hands-on corporate events, 16 different cooking classes where you can study Mexican, Persian, Japanese, Malay, Thai, Hong Kong Street, or […]
Show them you care: Victoria Florists
We all need to be cared for and sometimes don’t know how to say it with words. The team at Victoria Florists helps say what you can’t with personalised gift and goodie baskets and bouquets to show that family, friends, and loved ones do care. The talented florists create customised baskets […]
Looking from the outside in: Pacific Radiology
Radiology in Canterbury is now more accessible as the Canterbury network of branches expands its patient-based customer care to even more communities, with new branches in Rolleston and Ashburton. Radiology is often the unsung hero of the medical diagnostic world and can play a vital role in disease management by giving […]
Tasty, versatile and keto-friendly: Bangers’n’Bacon
“Love and sausage are alike. [You] can never have enough of either.” – author Dean Koontz Pete Nolan at Bangers’n’Bacon agrees. He loves the company’s clean-eating keto-friendly English Breakfast sausages accompanied by a rasher of bacon, a fried egg and slice of tomato for breakfast at the weekend. Chief cook […]
Roll up, roll up
Pastry is a versatile component of many dishes, comprising a major component of creations such as pies (sweet and savoury), Cornish pasties, sausage rolls, and croissants. A combination of flour and fat (butter, lard, or suet), pastry falls into five basic types: shortcrust, filo, choux, flaky and puff. Shortcrust is arguably the […]
Cosy commuting cuisine: Cosy Cafe
For commuters living in or around Christchurch’s satellite villages, it’s a godsend to know there are eating establishments on their route into or out of the city that serve fabulous food, seven days a week. One such eatery is The Cosy Café at Northcote, where patrons are assured of the warmest […]








