Tickling Taste-Buds: Gordon’s Picklery
With two decades of experience and expertise supplying gherkins and pickled onions to many of New Zealand’s largest and most recognisable food service customers, Gordon’s Pickles has now launched an impressive range of ‘ready to serve’ quality products available to you, direct from the factory door. Owner and Manager Janice Burnett knows her onions when […]
A winters’s ale feast: Wigram Brewery Co
Flavour sings over winter at Wigram – whether it’s cooking with a stout or porter or pairing them with your favourite cheese board, the winter fare is accentuated by the stunning range of hearty beers at Wigram Brewery. With sumptuous darks and their rich, malty, earthy flavours that add such depth to stews, […]
A hearty Kiwi favourite: Gorgeous Food
Nothing beats a piping hot homemade pie with a succulent filling to warm up a winter’s day. And Gorgeous Food in Wigram takes this hearty Kiwi favourite to the next level. Owners JoAnne and Pete will enter this year’s New Zealand Bakels Pie Awards – last year they came seventh in the ‘Boutique’ category for […]
A creative collection: The Christchurch Art Show has something for every kind of art lover (and those who didn’t know they liked art yet)
Art is a creative journey that is experienced differently for each of us. From the creative edge of street art, to upmarket abstract painting, no matter which way your creative taste swings, Christchurch’s largest art show is designed to have something up your artistic alley. With quality original artworks from established and emergent New Zealand […]
Winter tipples: we ask Andy Deuchars what’s brewing this winter at Wigram Brewery?
We recently caught up with Andy Deuchars from Wigram Brewery to discuss some of the company’s fine beers. With winter upon us, our attention is drawn to those darker brews such as the Czar Imperial Russian Stout, 8.5 percent. A big, black bitter beast. The red wine of beers that takes your palate on a […]
An impressive line-up: Customlight Engineering delivers the goods
The line-up of designs and products Customlight Engineering puts out is nothing short of impressive. Design Engineer Glen Wykes bought the company three years ago, but he has been in the industry for most of his adult life. With his wife Toni-Jane, he has grown the business from its Treffers Road premises, where it manufactures […]
Class-leading construction: building a quality home is easy with Wigram’s MrHomes
MrHomes lives and breathes the home building and construction industry. Based in Wigram, the company has earned a sterling reputation for providing customers with quality service and industry knowledge, providing the customer with modern, class leading designer homes at an affordable price. A dependable contracting service is available, along with house and land packages, design […]
Café construction collaboration: how DNG Construction worked with LeBakermen Cafe & Bakery to make their dreams a reality
DNG Construction Ltd is going from strength to strength. With countless completed building projects around the city, the team behind this dedicated company can provide you with the experience, knowledge and commitment to ensure your building project, commercial or residential, becomes a reality. LeBakermen Café and Bakery at 187 Wigram Road offers a strong example […]
Unique model of retirement living: Lady Wigram Retirement Village
When it comes to sourcing retirement facilities for your loves ones, not surprisingly quality is front of your mind. As soon as you arrive at the Lady Wigram Retirement Village, it’s clear this is a unique model of retirement living and one that is all about lifestyle. Owned by the Golden Healthcare Group, the concept […]
A gorgeous variety: checking out Wigram’s delightful bakery Gorgeous Food
It’s something of an institution on Springs Road in Wigram. For more than ten years the Gorgeous Food specialist bakery has been delighting locals and those from further afield, with its ‘gorgeous’ range of tasty classic and not-so-traditional freshly-made treats, both savoury and sweet. “We are proud to have served the community for so long,” […]
