Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Where do you get yours? (Food Edition) https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259146#post259146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259146#post259146 Pizza de resistance...
I had pretty much given up on pizzas (caught a snippet on Hell Pizzas on TV last night which reinforced all the reasons I'd never even tried going there – meathead lovers pizzas!) – but I digress...
The finest (thin base) pizzas in Chchch are to be…

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 20:50:39 +1200 Sj https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259120#post259120 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259120#post259120 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:28:52 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259049#post259049 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259049#post259049 They were underdone

I think that's our feeling as well. But the next day if you reheat them in a frying pan with a lid they come out pretty much spot on, but at that price that isn't what you want. I like some of their combos but on balance…

]]> Tue, 22 May 2012 09:49:56 +1200 jb https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259031#post259031 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=259031#post259031 Tue, 22 May 2012 01:09:24 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258988#post258988 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258988#post258988 Not such a great food experience. We stayed in a Mt Albert motel on Saturday night and there was a heady smell of rancid fat hanging over the suburb–maybe even drifting towards Port Chev. Is this usual?

The Chinese establishments in the Mt Albert shops don't tend to be a…

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:45:34 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258987#post258987 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258987#post258987 I’m still an al Volo fan but I actually think the pizzas benefit from reheating in a covered frying pan which suggests I prefer the bases a bit more done.

I was disappointed the last time we got pizzas at Al Volo. They were underdone, very expensive and not that…

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 16:42:12 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258986#post258986 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258986#post258986 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:48:06 +1200 Hilary Stace https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258985#post258985 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258985#post258985 Fantail Grove makes it, and she comes to Wellington once a month to sell it. ]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 15:46:37 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258983#post258983 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258983#post258983 Mon, 21 May 2012 15:24:43 +1200 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258978#post258978 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258978#post258978 Mon, 21 May 2012 14:15:29 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258976#post258976 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258976#post258976 In Oamaru, we also have “One Smart Takeaway”

Sadly not walking distance.

If we are going to diverge into takeaways, I'll vote for Gorgeous pizzas on Dom Rd, expensive though. I'm still an al Volo fan but I actually think the pizzas benefit from reheating in a covered frying pan…

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 13:46:40 +1200 Richard A https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258974#post258974 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258974#post258974 Mon, 21 May 2012 12:51:35 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258973#post258973 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258973#post258973 Great
In Oamaru, we also have "One Smart Takeaway" – while specialising in blue cod & sole and other locally-caught species when available, they also make mean pizzas...we just go for the blue cod & chips . All fish is dipped in their special batter and fried while you wait.
They have…

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 12:50:14 +1200 Gareth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258971#post258971 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258971#post258971 For that Steampunk link, please go here:

http://campl.us/jAFv

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:57:43 +1200 Gareth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258970#post258970 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258970#post258970 ChCh butchers: Traiteur of Merivale. Great sausages.
Rachel Scott bread (best in NZ), available in Merivale Fresh Choice.
Canterbury Cheesemongers runs Rachel close, and has the best pork pies in the southern hemisphere. And cheese.

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:41:01 +1200 Gareth https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258969#post258969 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258969#post258969 Oamaru as food destination +1

The only farmer's market with steampunk on the side (http://campl.us/jAFv) and Fleur's cafe built-in. Plus: 12k out of town, the very excellent Riverstone Kitchen where we dined most royally (and affordably!) on Saturday night. And did I mention the Waitaki Valley wines?

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 11:38:57 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258959#post258959 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258959#post258959 Mt Eden Fisheries on Dominion Rd opposite the Glengarry's, just around the corner is a stealth good fish store.

And this is the problem I have had with fish shops. We've been there twice for fish and chips and both times been sold old fish in batter. Just because you…

]]> Mon, 21 May 2012 09:22:40 +1200 Chris Bowden https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258958#post258958 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258958#post258958 Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:05 +1200 Ross McA. https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258954#post258954 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258954#post258954 Mon, 21 May 2012 06:59:10 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258943#post258943 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258943#post258943 Sun, 20 May 2012 20:12:39 +1200 Simon Pound https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258942#post258942 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258942#post258942 Sun, 20 May 2012 20:06:13 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258941#post258941 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258941#post258941 I've snorkeled for some big paua either side of the marine reserve in Island Bay but I gather that that is outside the remit of this post

they have some pretty good yellowfoot paua over that way too. tasty those little blighters.

while i'm here i should make the periennial…

]]> Sun, 20 May 2012 19:11:36 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258919#post258919 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258919#post258919 .... that kingdom was neither as peaceful or as heavenly as the name proclaimed.
Understatement. With around 20 million mainly civilians dead, probably the deadliest conflict ever within a single country.

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 22:30:57 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258914#post258914 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258914#post258914 Thanks for the tips, Sofie. If I don't actually remember the details when it comes time to make our move, I'll certainly remember where to look and who to ask.

Tai Ping

Interesting name. I assume in Chinese characters it's 太平, which is one of several words meaning 'peace'. Or…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 21:33:40 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258910#post258910 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258910#post258910 Loggerheads?
It didn't work. I'm still a big-headed baby...
Possibly you may need to log out of PA and log back in again to update – just a thought, I'd imagine there'd be some kinda cache thing going on to save on data traffic – worth a crack.

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 20:59:35 +1200 Sj https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258907#post258907 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258907#post258907 Sat, 19 May 2012 20:03:53 +1200 Sj https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258906#post258906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258906#post258906 Thank you Joe, I will try that forthwith.

As to the present, baby photo..., I now think there may be something oddly intimate and inappropriate about a baby photo. Nothing to do with you of course, just a personal peculiarity. Plus it took me a long time to grow into…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 19:58:31 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258904#post258904 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258904#post258904 Subh

am a convert. real taste and great prices

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 19:38:35 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258900#post258900 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258900#post258900 Now one fear has been soothed, and in a Muttonbirdy kind of way, just remember Dominion Road.

Chris, also on Dom Rd is Tai Ping. Asian supermarket. Worth a look. I like that it has product translation for the likes of me. Also the Market in Mt albert Shopping precinct…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 19:15:57 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258897#post258897 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258897#post258897 ... if anyone can tell me how to change my profile photo...
If you go here and sign in (like most things you only do every few years, hope you can remember your password) you should be presented with the Manage Gravatars options. Changing your pic should then be pretty…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:32:59 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258896#post258896 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258896#post258896 Another vote for Khyber Spice – great range, great smells and friendly.

Another good place I try andy ride to where possible. Lovely folks, excellent range. Should really have mentioned them in the original post.

Also: Subh, a couple of doors down, has made-that-day vegetable (mostly) curries that are half…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:31:47 +1200 Sj https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258895#post258895 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258895#post258895 I must be off to make our own dinner, tinned soup and noodles.

I am impressed with people cooking market food. Our local markets are only open on Sunday morning, and they are the length of a long beach away.

The only steady thing I can tell you about what…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:24:20 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258894#post258894 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258894#post258894 Thanks Ian!
It's a measure of how I was feeling that I thought 'Ugh, that looks wrong, cant be bothered checking a dictionary.'
Always check the dictionary is right up there with Always blow on the pie...

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:18:38 +1200 Venetia King https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258893#post258893 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258893#post258893 The Hill St Market is ok and representative of its ilk but a bit thin ... worth a look if you're in the area
I live in the area and visit the Hill Street Farmers' Market most Saturdays. It's quite little as markets go and not always that well attended so…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 18:08:58 +1200 Kate https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258876#post258876 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258876#post258876 Sat, 19 May 2012 16:42:52 +1200 Ewan Morris https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258855#post258855 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258855#post258855 Sat, 19 May 2012 13:17:13 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258854#post258854 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258854#post258854 Thanks, Islander.

These teeth and chest don't sound good. I hope you feel better soon.

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 13:16:18 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258846#post258846 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258846#post258846 I would like to find out about smoking cheese – and mussels – some time …

Any excuse to link this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMk-y6330aE

That's part 2 of the episode where he brines and hot smokes salmon using a cardboard box smoker.

This is the scrap iron chef episode where he builds…

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 11:33:23 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258838#post258838 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258838#post258838 Dental pedantry...
even edentious people...
At the risk of appearing tendentious
the path to dentures is edentulous...
:- )

]]> Sat, 19 May 2012 10:00:21 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258836#post258836 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258836#post258836 Sat, 19 May 2012 09:48:31 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258826#post258826 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258826#post258826 Chris, I am pretty sure that what you describe is available in many South Island Chinese shops – have to wait for definities(sore teeth and a chest infection make me poorly tonight)) – will get a family member to check in Dn apopo-
we could all make a very good and…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 23:18:17 +1200 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258824#post258824 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258824#post258824 Yeah Coffee Supreme is good too – I only buy my beans at the shop as my coffee ingestion level is much larger than puny cups will allow.

The Hill St Market is ok and representative of its ilk but a bit thin – put it this way, my folks…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 23:10:44 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258818#post258818 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258818#post258818 O, ANOTHER OAMARUVIAN THING-
Simplifoods for excellent fresh hard-to-find organic & other goodies-

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 22:41:19 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258814#post258814 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258814#post258814 -not illegal here! Freely available as a dried ingedient- cheers!

Please tell me that's an answer to my 花椒/huājiāo/prickly ash/numbing 'pepper' query. Although I basically disagree with its use in food (back in Hunan (where I spent my first year in China) we go straight spicy with no numbing, and…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 22:10:00 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258812#post258812 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258812#post258812 Fri, 18 May 2012 22:05:04 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258811#post258811 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258811#post258811 Ouch. Implants?
NAh.
I've never had lower jaw back molars, and as the rest of perilously-anchored teeth die – ah well, i will invent the most brillant savoury vege/fish smoothies there has ever been!

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 22:00:41 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258810#post258810 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258810#post258810 Fri, 18 May 2012 21:59:50 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258808#post258808 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258808#post258808 Hey! Can do!
My uncle Bill taught me to smoke fish when I was 12 years old (the year after my father died.) I can literally( after weighing, ascetaining sugar content (U. Bill just licked it but he showed me how to *taste* it – including in meat-) and salt…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:57:03 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258807#post258807 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258807#post258807 Fri, 18 May 2012 21:56:26 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258804#post258804 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258804#post258804 I would like to find out about smoking cheese – and mussels

Both quite hard to light.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:51:38 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258803#post258803 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258803#post258803 Now, if I get into farmed/ then harvested/ then smoked or otherwise processed salmon – we’re in for a looong ride – I would like to find out about smoking cheese – and mussels – some time ... ]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:49:21 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258802#post258802 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258802#post258802 Fri, 18 May 2012 21:48:15 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258800#post258800 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258800#post258800 Now, if I get into farmed/ then harvested/ then smoked or otherwise processed salmon – we’re in for a looong ride – about which I know a considerable lot.
Summary: good, basically, against wild harvest-

Hebe – after yet another tooth in my my head has fallen out ,all I…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:46:20 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258799#post258799 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258799#post258799 the Tania cheese was my intro to smoked
Gateway drug. ;-)Yeah man; next the blue vein.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:43:44 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258797#post258797 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258797#post258797 the Tania cheese was my intro to smoked

Gateway drug. ;-)

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 21:32:43 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258796#post258796 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258796#post258796 I sound obsessed with "smoked" thises and thats.

We live about two blocks from Holy Smoke, and its salmon. I think you sound perfectly reasonable.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:58:57 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258794#post258794 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258794#post258794 Fri, 18 May 2012 20:39:40 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258791#post258791 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258791#post258791 I do find $25 for an actual organic chook a bit steep most days.I did until we got chickens. Now, having three fat and bossy good-for-nothings who haven't laid since January (they are only two years old!) and spend their time gobbling gold-plated organic pellets and booting the crap out… ]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:30:42 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258790#post258790 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258790#post258790 There is NO gazumphing for food references!
Manuka-smoked? YES!

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:22:59 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258789#post258789 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258789#post258789 Fri, 18 May 2012 20:21:21 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258787#post258787 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258787#post258787 The star was the Evansdale cheese factory just north of Dunedin: Tania (smoked farmhouse), the Laurel, and the Bay Blue.

they do decent cheese. we buy a round whenever we visit the family in waitati

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:17:12 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258784#post258784 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258784#post258784 Fri, 18 May 2012 20:15:47 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258783#post258783 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258783#post258783 Fri, 18 May 2012 20:04:52 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258782#post258782 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258782#post258782 Family haz chooks. Family haz eggs(lotsa.) Family only rarely kills chooks (they can live, happily and productively for up to 20 years…afterwards, I haz—-recipes!<


q> do find $25 for an actual organic chook a bit steep most days.

heavens, that is ridiculous!

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]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 20:03:39 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258781#post258781 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258781#post258781 Fri, 18 May 2012 20:00:28 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258780#post258780 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258780#post258780 I do find $25 for an actual organic chook a bit steep most days.

holy moly. i don't blame you. for that kind of money you should set up a chook house. you can buy the wee ones for $8, grow them, and have the dubious "pleasure" of killing them…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 19:59:33 +1200 frank_db https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258779#post258779 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258779#post258779 Fri, 18 May 2012 19:56:41 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258774#post258774 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258774#post258774 Thanks, Russell and Sofie. If Winnie's complaining then something good must be happening.

Logically, I thought there must be plenty of Asian shops in Auckland, I just don't know Auckland at all and didn't know where to start looking for them. Now one fear has been soothed, and in a…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 19:25:31 +1200 bronwyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258773#post258773 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258773#post258773 Fri, 18 May 2012 19:13:23 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258769#post258769 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258769#post258769
I’ll do Deep South later (includes: Dunedin! Bluff!)

Our southern correspondent!

Happy to be!
Foodie from way way back, and southern by whakapapa – & since I was conceived! And been trolling around southern areas as a hungry appreciative *aware*mouth & brain for over 55 years-

there's also the inland areas, where…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 18:18:36 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258767#post258767 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258767#post258767 I’ll do Deep South later (includes: Dunedin! Bluff!)

Our southern correspondent!

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 18:06:33 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258766#post258766 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258766#post258766 Clearwater yoghurt everywhere in Oamaru & further south – we know a bloody good thing when we taste it.

Just discovered that the tandoori butterflied chicken at Farro uses a marinade made with Clearwater yoghurt. Gotta love that.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 18:05:27 +1200 Richard Llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258764#post258764 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258764#post258764 From Mt Albert way..

For the time-poor, Muzza's Pies, best pies in Auckland

Cosset for coffee

Seamart for fresh fish

New world in Mt Roskill for groceries

Farro for the dinner party shop

Name escapes me, but a great little middle eastern deli on new north road that makes their…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 17:58:58 +1200 Islander https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258763#post258763 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258763#post258763 South…far south…but not quite Deeep South-
Waimate – free-range capons (pretty difficult to source normally.)
-Havoc free-range pork
-home of the farms that make the potatoes for Heartlands potato chips
Oamaru- Whitestone cheeses (who also have a good range of Havoc’s processed
products &(I am told) including very good chorizo.) Whitestone…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 17:55:16 +1200 Kate Doherty https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258760#post258760 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258760#post258760 Supermarket: new world mt roskill. Good range, good wine, friendly staff, plenty of room to move.

Fish: delivered on a Thursday by Something Fishy (fresh and smoked, love their smoked salmon) http://www.somethingfishy.net.nz .

Fruit and veg: parklands, by the Balmoral Warehouse. Great quality.

Bread: la voie francaise on Dom Rd…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 17:35:28 +1200 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258758#post258758 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258758#post258758 As have, across the road in the Punjab Muslim fast food joint (is that Shubh?), all the images on the back wall. I used to love seeing John Key and Helen Clark next to Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and, yes, Osama Bin Laden.

At the local Noodle Canteen outlet on…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 17:26:48 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258752#post258752 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258752#post258752 That’s place with the amazing olives too, right?

Been a bit wanting lately. You can no longer select olives. They come in $6 containers now, but they still have all the cheeses and the mixed pickles and relishes etc. and macadamia nuts and dried apricots and cashews an', an', an',…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 17:07:03 +1200 Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258748#post258748 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258748#post258748 I go to Khyber Spice for cheap milk, great yoghurt, spices, sometimes vegetables and curry leaves – grape leaves and rice – samosas.

That's place with the amazing olives too, right? I'll speak up for Sandringham – that block of shops is incredible. Although I note the big stacks of…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 16:58:03 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258747#post258747 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258747#post258747 FishNada, zip nothing. Everywhere we’ve tried has at one time or another sold us old fish.

Mt Roskill shops(cnr Dominion and Mt Albert rd) takeaways (the one near Westpac) sell wet fish and they sell a lot. They close about 7 but open early and they sell mussels in there…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 16:56:13 +1200 Helga https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258738#post258738 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258738#post258738 Can't see anyone speaking up for Sandringham here!
I go to Khyber Spice for cheap milk, great yoghurt, spices, sometimes vegetables and curry leaves – grape leaves and rice – samosas. People come from all over Auckland for their huge range of dates (during Ramadan), halva, and sheep and goat…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 15:57:42 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258737#post258737 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258737#post258737 Oh for Mexican ingredients Mexican specialties
cnr Marua rd and celtic cres. Lots of chilli sauces and tomatillos (those are the green fruit that form the base of so many great mexican dishes)

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 15:55:34 +1200 TracyMac https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258735#post258735 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258735#post258735 I've not had good luck with People's Coffee at the various places around town I've tried it, although not in Newtown. I luurve Coffee Supreme – got hooked while I worked at Vic – especially the Boxer Blend. Havana is always reliable.

The fresh veggie market on the corner of…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 15:19:17 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258732#post258732 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258732#post258732 Thanks for the tip – just went up there and grabbed a couple of litres for the weekend.

Nice folk, aren't they?

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:57:03 +1200 Shona Sangster https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258731#post258731 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258731#post258731 http://fuckyeahavondalemarkets.tumblr.com) and the Mt Roskill New World is very good, stocking a lot of the fancy Sabato bits and pieces, though at the same price. You get what you pay for I guess....I've certainly learned my lesson when it comes to… ]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:53:47 +1200 Simon C https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258730#post258730 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258730#post258730 Lastly, very recently opened is Hopscotch Beer Co in Eden Tce, who have a dozen different craft beers on tap to fill your flagons from. $10/L for NZ, $15/L for imports. Yum, and amazing value.


Thanks for the tip – just went up there and grabbed a couple of litres…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:41:32 +1200 Helen Phare https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258728#post258728 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258728#post258728 Mt Roskill Aussie Butcher, Fruit World and New World are all great.

My local supermarket, Mangere Bridge Supervalue, has fantastic acid-free tomatoes – those big pale red ones that taste of tomato – much cheaper than I've seen anywhere else, they are always available and haven't been chilled. I think…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:41:12 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258726#post258726 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258726#post258726 good Cajun suburb like ByBayouWhat a good name for South Brighton.

Casbah: three months doing a backwoods loop around Morocco gave me a lifelong aversion to tumeric. Smoked paprika num num: I get it from the Indian wholesaler just down from the Casbah on the opposite side of the road…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:29:22 +1200 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258725#post258725 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258725#post258725 Meat

Aussie Butcher Frost Rd Mt Roskill
The butchers are nice and will cut what you want, the meat is good and most times they don't do that annoying fold the bad bit under trick.
Farro's Mt Wellington for NZ Wagyu beef, we've been getting skirt steak it is great.…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:27:09 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258724#post258724 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258724#post258724 Good Greek takeaways from “Its All Greek to Me” in Sydenham.
...and the wonderful Moroccan restaurant Casbah (used to be at the start of Chancery Arcade opposite the Library) has reopened at 303 Colombo street by Sydenham park...

... and don't forget The Bodhi Tree now located at 397 -399…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:25:34 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258720#post258720 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258720#post258720 Upshot in Heathcote is my fave coffee. They now have a container shop with seats outside beside a paddock full of horses in Bridle Path Road. It's fair Trade and mine is organic Harrar/ Yirgacheffe mix, ground to between espresso and plunger.

Apples: BHU organic every time.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 14:02:42 +1200 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258718#post258718 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258718#post258718 Wgtn – People's Coffee in Newtown is the only stuff I buy – drinking Columbian right now.

My trick at the moment is to get a peoples coffee and take it down to Cancan Bakery which recently opened in that crummy mall across from Newtown school. They have the most…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 13:46:39 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258717#post258717 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258717#post258717 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:36:30 +1200 Kate Hannah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258715#post258715 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258715#post258715 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:29:58 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258712#post258712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258712#post258712 I'd pick West Lynn Organic Meats over the Westmere Butchery every time, better quality, especially in the chicken department (I'm scared of all those antibiotics and hormones in non organic chicken products).

There are no hormones used in New Zealand chicken. Factory chicken will almost always have been treated with…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 13:09:41 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258711#post258711 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258711#post258711 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:08:23 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258709#post258709 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258709#post258709 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:05:02 +1200 Kate Hannah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258707#post258707 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258707#post258707 St Heliers/Eastern suburbs-centric:
Fruit and veges:
delivered on a Tuesday from https://foodbox.co.nz/ – I've been getting this for over three years now and the goods are seasonal, handpicked, excitihng – we've tried all sorts of new things – and make my life easier. Then we pick up extras from the…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 13:02:34 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258706#post258706 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258706#post258706 Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:09 +1200 Graham Dunster https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258705#post258705 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258705#post258705 Grey Lynn Farro's yogurt selection is dismal, the best one around that I've seen is Victoria Park's New World – overwhelming. And a real shame that Cyclops have changed their range, I was a sucker for the 250g Chocolate topped organic yogurt pottles.

I'd pick West Lynn Organic Meats over…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 12:59:41 +1200 Dale Griffiths https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258704#post258704 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258704#post258704 Fri, 18 May 2012 12:56:06 +1200 Jean Hughes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258702#post258702 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258702#post258702 and from the South West of Auckland.
Mangere Market on Sat am is good for veges and often fruit but all is seasonal. Strawberry Farm on Kirkbride Rd is fantastic for veges and strawberries in season (last day is this Sunday for this season).
The fish shop in Onehunga Mall…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 12:41:47 +1200 JackElder https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258701#post258701 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258701#post258701 Have I got a deal for you…just what you need to get about on

Get an xtracycle, you can refit them onto your existing bike.

Here in Wellington, the inverse is happening: Restaurant Associates (catering firm) have bought a fleet (4’s a fleet, right?) of cargo bikes to deliver their…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 12:37:02 +1200 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258698#post258698 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258698#post258698 Fri, 18 May 2012 12:24:40 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258689#post258689 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258689#post258689 "I love Whoopie" would be the first t-shirt I'd be getting printed up.

And they don't need to compose a jingle...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TULYBRHBAs

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:26:40 +1200 Russell Clarke https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258687#post258687 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258687#post258687 Altura for coffee beans. Their Supreme is...well...what it says on the bag.

For meat – used to use West Lynn Organic Butchers when we lived there. Now we're out in the sticks, options aren't so great.

We're trying to grow our own veges. Partial success. The snails and caterpillars adored…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 11:17:36 +1200 sallyr https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258685#post258685 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258685#post258685 Aucklanders keen for cinnamon bark can get it delivered free – along with everything else you need in the way of Indian comestibles – from spiceneasy.

The butcher at the La Cigale market deserves a shout out – Jamie from Te Kainga Meats. I do like it when a farmer…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:47:12 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258681#post258681 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258681#post258681 east = eats
we have even got Winnie complaining
about too many Asian restaurants.
John Key is comfortable with it,
as he said on the telly last night
"the more the merry"...
I sometimes wonder if he needs some
remedial English as a Second Language
courses, sadly, his first language…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:13:59 +1200 Glenn Pearce https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258678#post258678 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258678#post258678 Yes, the branding opportunities are endless, "I love Whoopie" would be the first t-shirt I'd be getting printed up.

http://www.whoopie.co.nz/

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:08:42 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258676#post258676 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258676#post258676 Ponsonby And Mt Eden Nosh is also very good,

I hear good things about the Mt Eden one, but I think Nosh Ponsonby is badly let down by its fresh produce, which is expensive, limited in range and sometimes of poor quality. It's partly a function of the limited space…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 10:01:40 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258675#post258675 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258675#post258675 you should treat yourself to a Whoopie Pie

That sounds rude.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 09:56:09 +1200 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258674#post258674 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258674#post258674 the writeup I did on the 'Ista – you can buy their syrups to take home with you. ]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 09:47:14 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258672#post258672 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258672#post258672 Avondale Market is awesome – fresh veg.

The Avondale Markets is being disrupted at present because of the Queensland fruit fly (read major pest to fruit) being discovered in Mt Roskill.Bio Security have been halting local fruit and veg stalls.I imagine May Rd will be effected too. Gotta run or…

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 09:42:13 +1200 Glenn Pearce https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258667#post258667 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258667#post258667 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:15:13 +1200 Pete https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258666#post258666 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258666#post258666 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:14:24 +1200 John Armstrong https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258665#post258665 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258665#post258665 Fri, 18 May 2012 08:54:14 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258663#post258663 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258663#post258663 and I thought, “Keep that store open! Cos when we get back (and Auckland is our destination of choice) then we’re going to need Chinese products!”

Oh Chris, you have no cause for concern on that score at all. Chinese supermarkets abound in Auckland.

]]> Fri, 18 May 2012 08:37:20 +1200 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258662#post258662 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258662#post258662 Fri, 18 May 2012 08:36:26 +1200 Joe Wylie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258658#post258658 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258658#post258658 Kikkoman
Kikkoman. Show me, shoyu . . .:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz-mJed_bP0

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 23:38:11 +1200 Lucy Telfar Barnard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258657#post258657 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258657#post258657 Thu, 17 May 2012 23:25:53 +1200 thegirlstefan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258655#post258655 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258655#post258655 Thu, 17 May 2012 22:51:09 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258645#post258645 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258645#post258645 There's a reason you and everyone else in the inner western burbs hits the Westmere Butchery. And it's not that it's trendy. It's really really good. And if you talk to the butchers in there, they know how to cook meat as well.

Word. I've had good advice more than…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 21:22:12 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258644#post258644 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258644#post258644 Thu, 17 May 2012 20:56:28 +1200 Jo Eggers https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258643#post258643 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258643#post258643 Zany Zeus of the yummy organic milk and cheeses have just opened their first retail store in Moera, Lower Hutt. Along with the usual milk and various cheeses, they have expanded their range into include yoghurts, smoked cheeses and icecream.

I love their creamy feta, haloumi and sigh…… peanut butter…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 20:50:28 +1200 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258642#post258642 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258642#post258642 Oh one of my favourite topics. Hurrah!

Butcher
I used Better Butchers in Mt Eden Rd, mainly because I've known Grant and Les for years, and they're good blokes. And they do nice meat. Not posh, but nice.

Bread etc

I like Wild Wheat bread. Once again, mainly because I'm…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 20:47:39 +1200 Stephanie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258641#post258641 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258641#post258641 Thu, 17 May 2012 20:20:11 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258640#post258640 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258640#post258640 Thu, 17 May 2012 20:18:00 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258639#post258639 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258639#post258639 to be honest, the riverside markets in the hutt have better produce than MW. sometimes *much* better.

they also have someone selling hangi "pork buns".

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 20:11:40 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258638#post258638 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258638#post258638 Thu, 17 May 2012 20:08:49 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258637#post258637 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258637#post258637 Opawa-St Martins Farmer’s Market, Sundays 9am-12noon, get there early for the freshest yummiest produce, often picked that morning, and sold by the people who grew it. Save money on the fantastic fruit and veg, and then blow your savings on She… ]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 20:08:42 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258635#post258635 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258635#post258635 Lastly, very recently opened is Hopscotch Beer Co in Eden Tce, who have a dozen different craft beers on tap to fill your flagons from. $10/L for NZ, $15/L for imports. Yum, and amazing value.

Went there for the first time recently. Won't be the last.

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:57:28 +1200 Martin Roberts https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258634#post258634 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258634#post258634 Avondale Market is awesome – fresh veg. that lasts way beyond any reasonable expectation. (If you buy from the right stalls, anyhow.) Cheap, and conveniently close to home.

Make sure you put a rack and panniers on that butcher's bike in case you find a sweet deal in the flea…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:56:59 +1200 Stephanie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258631#post258631 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258631#post258631 Thu, 17 May 2012 19:45:38 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258630#post258630 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258630#post258630 Is this the start of the Food Blog
that got named months ago?
Prole Feed or summat wasn't it?

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:36:57 +1200 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258629#post258629 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258629#post258629 Thu, 17 May 2012 19:35:53 +1200 Samuel Scott https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258628#post258628 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258628#post258628 Oooh yeah. Food shopping is the my favourite thing in the world.

Like everyone in Wellington I spend too much money at Moore Wilsons. But a lot of stuff there is quite comparable in price to New World and the selection is just so much better that I can stomach…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:31:26 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258627#post258627 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258627#post258627 mercifully unsliced multigrain loaves

A friend of mine calls this glued bread .

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:29:54 +1200 Chris Waugh https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258626#post258626 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258626#post258626 I read this:

an entire aisle of slow-moving Chinese products that nobody buys.

and I thought, "Keep that store open! Cos when we get back (and Auckland is our destination of choice) then we're going to need Chinese products!" But then I read an article in yesterday's Herald about Aucklanders…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:28:04 +1200 Raffe Smith https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258625#post258625 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258625#post258625 It seems food will be well covered here, so I thought some beer options for Auckland might be useful, as good craft beer is not available everywhere.

Vic Park and Forrest Hill New Worlds, especially the former. Countdown are usually very limited.

Village Winery, Mt Eden – their selection of…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:24:47 +1200 paynter https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258621#post258621 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258621#post258621 Wellingtonians:

Where to buy fresh produce in the northern suburbs, now that Molesworth Fruit Supply is a tile shop and the nice little fruit shop in Crofton Downs mall is being shut down to extend the supermarket?

There's Moore Wilson's in Porirua, but it's a bit of aways.

Thanks.
Gordon

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 19:12:41 +1200 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258620#post258620 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258620#post258620 The "now I'll make you envious thread"?

I'll plug for Banfields of Beckenham in Colombo St at the Beckenham shops because it has: hunky organic rump steak for 20 bucks a kilo; $1 venison patties; good sausages (not yer Auckland fancy but good organic beef and others). And Mark the…

]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 18:53:18 +1200 Mark Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258617#post258617 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258617#post258617 Thu, 17 May 2012 18:27:51 +1200 Ben Curran https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258616#post258616 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258616#post258616 Thu, 17 May 2012 18:27:32 +1200 Tim Welch https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258613#post258613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258613#post258613 just what you need to get about on ]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 18:20:33 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258612#post258612 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-where-do-you-get-yours-food-edition/?p=258612#post258612 Discussion from blog post.

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