The Coffee Club, together with chicken restaurant chain Bird On A Wire, are the latest big names to sign the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment. Led in New Zealand by advocacy charity Animals Aotearoa, the global policy initiative lays out strict,...
New Zealand’s best honey producers have been named at the Apiculture New Zealand National Honey Competition as part of the industry’s annual conference in Rotorua last week. The conference hosted 700 delegates from the apiculture industry at the Rotorua Energy Events...
Kaiser Brew Garden of Christchurch has won the Supreme Award at the 2023 Hospitality Awards for Excellence. The awards were announced at a black-tie dinner event at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland tonight – the final night of the two-day Hospitality New Zealand...
The Warehouse is expanding its fresh fruit and vegetable trial to a further five stores and three new regions. Manukau, Te Rapa (Hamilton), Fraser Cove (Tauranga), Eastgate (Christchurch) and Dunedin South have been added to the list of The Warehouse stores stocking a...
The average carbon footprint of wild-caught fish harvested and processed at sea by New Zealand’s deepwater fishers is estimated to be one of the smallest among animal-based protein sources. This is evidenced in a study by Crown Research Institute AgResearch senior...
The vital role that women play in New Zealand’s $6 billion horticulture sector has received a significant boost as United Fresh gears up to lead the industry collective, Women in Horticulture (WiH). United Fresh New Zealand Incorporated is New Zealand’s only...
The North Island is home to the country’s tastiest toasted sandwich once again, with Mount Maunganui’s Freeport with Cleaver & Co taking top honours in the Great NZ Toastie Takeover 2023. Talented young chef Brooke Moore has won the hotly contested title - and...
For the first time this year, the Food Price Index (FPI) shows a drop in the cost of fruit and vegetables as the country’s growers recover from a tough spell of weather-related challenges. United Fresh President, Jerry Prendergast, says the fall in prices for the...
It’s a Friday lunch and I am meeting a couple of fellow foodie friends to check out SkyCity Hamilton’s newest eatery – Shanghai Restaurant. It occupies a site that has seen several concepts come and go, none ever hitting the jackpot. But the Shanghai Restaurant has...
New Zealand hospitality businesses are feeling increasingly pessimistic about the state of the economy, according to the latest survey conducted by the Restaurant Association. 39 per cent of business owners believe that business conditions will worsen over the coming...
New fermentation technology developed by Kiwi scientists is set to provide a multi-million dollar export boost for the country’s nutraceutical exports. The technology allows scientists to grow and extract bioactive compounds from a mushroom organism in a laboratory...
A just-released study has found that New Zealand-farmed King salmon sold domestically has a significantly lower carbon footprint than beef, lamb and cheese. The study conducted by sustainability firm thinkstep-anz also noted that King salmon has a similar carbon...
New Zealand’s vast dairy infrastructure could be converted to create fermented proteins for millions more people, reckons a leader in the alternative protein space. Toby Lane, CEO of alt protein start-up New Fish, says New Zealand’s leadership in dairy science, along...
The UK/NZ FTA will support the continued growth of the New Zealand spirits industry while offering important opportunities for imported product. “The New Zealand spirits industry, while still small, has grown almost exponentially in the last 10 to 15 years,” says...
Around 160,000 hospitality workers and over 24,000 employers will be covered by a new Hospo Fair pay Agreement that has just been given the green light by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). Unite was informed tonight that the Chief Executive has...
Neo Café & Eatery and Pravda Café & Grill were the big winners in the 2023 Visa Wellington On a Plate Festival Awards. More than 5000 Diners were out in force to rate Dine Wellington and Cocktail Wellington entries, with judges assessing the finalists over the...
Hawke’s Bay was today named a Great Wine Capital of the world, setting it alongside eleven other prestigious wine regions such as Bordeaux (France), Napa Valley (USA), Bilbao (Spain) and Adelaide (Australia). Admission to the Great Wine Capitals programme, as the...
Te Puke is world-famous in New Zealand as our kiwifruit capital – but new research shows that top spot could be contested in future, with suitable kiwifruit production land identified in Waikato, Taranaki and the top of the South Island – even stretching down to...
Scientists from Plant & Food Research have been collecting data from apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay to better understand the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on plant and soil health and support grower’s management decisions. The Soil Health - Assessment and Recovery...
Some of Aotearoa’s newest, smallest and most remote craft breweries have won a place in the New World Beer & Cider Awards Top 30 announced on Tuesday, making the prestigious list alongside the country’s biggest names. More than 700 beers, ciders and other...
Magnified 3D images of the inside of a maple tree could take Kiwi scientists a step closer to making home-grown maple syrup. A Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC) team has spent the last two years investigating whether it’s viable to produce...