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34 features 26 OUR DAILY BREAD Gourmet bakers share their passion.
34 WHERE MAGIC HAPPENS Author Rachael King’s life of accomplishments.
40 LIFE IN THE PRESSURE COOKER Why it’s taking so long for our restaurants to open.
46 YOUR GUIDE TO WOOLSTON A suburb destined for greatness. regulars
10 Editor’s Welcome
12 Insider
20 Adore My Store – Kit & Caboodle
24 Frame Me
82 The Grill – Richard Till play
22 The Scene
78 Travel – Riding past the Remarkables
Front cover: Author Rachael King, who is shortlisted for the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. Photo Kelly Shakespeare
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64 Men’s fashion
66 Beauty – feminine flair
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68 Cook – Dux Dine 72 Eat – spice is nice 64 74 Bar Review – the Darkroom
76 Restaurant Review – Duo
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With more of the red zone becoming North Hagley Park’s Armagh St gates, to accessible to the public, it’s amazing encourage planners to take the safety how close we can get to the city’s heart. of cyclists into consideration when However, you don’t have to venture redeveloping the city. around by foot and you can get even Gap Filler has been providing us with closer by bike. Christchurch Bike Tours innovative ways to interact with the offer two-hour guided trips for groups city for a long time now, and its latest of six. It’s an opportunity to get inside project is just as novel. Borrow a putter the cordoned areas, as well as to learn and ball from the Pallet Pavilion (corner more about community projects and Durham and Kilmore streets) and tackle hear stories about local businesses. nine holes of mini golf, starting at the Tours will be available until June 28. pavilion and with a route that takes you Cyclists plan to make an impression to Peterborough, Colombo and Kilmore on the city on June 21, too. The second streets, and down to Manchester, Tuam annual Christchurch Solstice Night Light and Cashel streets. Bike Ride will kick off at 5.30pm, from
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To enter, send an email with ambiance your contact details and LA Mitchell in the subject line 10 night cruise - Barcelona Return aboard Nautica to [email protected] before June 30. from per guest • Port-intensive itineraries $ share twin in a featuring extended & 2795 Deluxe Ocean View Stateroom overnight stays DepaRTS: 4 November 2013 • Extraordinary high INCLUDeS: All meals & entertainment onboard, gratuities, port charges & taxes staff-to-guest ratio HIGHLIGHTS: Barcelona • Valencia • Palma de Mallorca • Palermo (Sicily) • Rome (Civitavecchia) • Florence/Pisa/Tuscany (overnight, Livorno) • FREE soft drinks, bottled • Monte Carlo • Provence (Marseille) water, espresso, teas & juices HOT BONUS: Receive US$300 SHIpBOaRD CReDIT per stateroom & FRee UNLIMITeD INTeRNeT ONBOaRD • FREE 24 hour room service PACIFIC PARADISE BeST VaLUe IN UpSCaLe CRUISING WIN 18 night cruise - Valparaiso to papeete aboard Marina from per guest $ share twin in a 5875 Balcony Stateroom DepaRTS: 28 December 2013 read Rachael King 30 Cruises WIN INCLUDeS: All meals & entertainment onboard, gratuities, port charges & taxes on sale HIGHLIGHTS: Valparaiso • Robinson Crusoe Island • Hanga Roa (overnight) BroChure • Adamstown • Fakarava • Bora Bora (overnight) • Papeete (Tahiti) treasure hunt This month’s profile is on author Rachael King, daughter out now! of the late Michael King and finalist in the New Zealand Identify where this photo was Post Children’s Book Awards for her fictional book Red HOT BONUS: Receive US$300 SHIpBOaRD CReDIT per stateroom & FRee UNLIMITeD INTeRNeT ONBOaRD Rocks. The story follows a young boy who, after finding taken, send the address to AIRFARES ARE ADDITIONAL [email protected] and a seal skin on Wellington’s wild south coast, unwittingly be in to win one of two double sparks a chain of events that threatens to destroy his passes to the opening night of family as the Celtic myth of the selkies, or seal people, Come instore | houseoftravel.co.nz Kings of the Gym at The Court unravels in a New Zealand setting. Theatre from June 19. Entries close While we won’t know if Rachael’s story is a winner June 26. until the awards ceremony on June 24, we are giving Addington 339 3440 | Barrington 331 7182 | Christchurch City 365 7687 | Ferrymead 376 4022 | Merivale 355 2200 you the opportunity to make your own judgment. Northlands 352 4578 | Riccarton 341 3900 | Shirley 385 0710 | Upper Riccarton 343 0869 | Rangiora 313 0288 For more competitions and Avenues has two copies of Red Rocks to give away. 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Hot mulled wine being served in many Christchurch bars. There is an up side to winter after all. Castle Rock Café Photos Doug Richardson The quick turnover of stock at the popular Miss Selfridge in Café of the month Ballantynes’ Contemporary Lounge. Blink and you miss out. The rustic muffins, scones and slices are a meal in themselves. The shrinking of the red zone. Finally, we’re getting our Port Hills Rd is a main trunk line linking the city with Sumner and But, for something more substantial, the corn fritters with smoked city back. Lyttelton, but there’s a very good reason to stop en route. Driving salmon and the bacon sandwich with aioli and barbecue sauce are The state of the city’s pavements, forcing us into buying down Chapmans Rd towards Hillsborough’s industrial heartland, we the business. They’re filling, delicious and served with a flourish by practical heels. spot the sign pointing to the Castle Rock Café in Mary Muller Dr. super-friendly staff. Stumbling upon new installations around the city, The lycra types arriving on two wheels at the same time as us aren’t Castle Rock Café also makes great chai and iced coffee, which whether they are turf-covered chairs on Gloucester St or The Shabby Chic Market closing for winter. We’ll miss put off by the “no lycra shorts please” sign at the door and are can be enjoyed outside while gazing at the hills. And, for parents Greening the Rubble gardens, such as the Salisbury St fossicking for cool stuff to clutter our kitchen cupboards welcomed just as warmly as we are. In fact, the café is perfectly needing time out, several brightly painted, retro pedal cars await the garden where you can play petanque, too. and wardrobes. placed as a whistle stop after a bike or walk in the Port Hills. little ’uns, making us wish we were small again. – Yvonne Martin
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24 25 our daily bread A passionate group of Canterbury bakers is leading a renaissance in artisan breadmaking and selling their golden loaves far and wide.
Words Pattie Pegler Photos Dean Mackenzie
Amberley baker Rachel Scott and (left) some of 26 her artisan breads. 27 Flour is a key ingredient in bread; (right and below) Le Panier Boulangerie’s croissants and loaves; (below right) Jeremy MacCormack from Bellbird Baked Goods.
here are few things that touch the senses like the smell of freshly baked bread. It might be one of the most basic foods, but it is Talso one of the most underestimated. A well-made loaf can be the king of the dinner table, rather than just a sideshow. In Canterbury, superb artisan bakers are quietly making breads that could grace any table, showing us that breadmaking is a real art form. When Rachel Scott started her Amberley-based bakery in 1995, the breads she turned out were “considered slightly exotic European breads, but they tasted great and that hooked people in”. She believes good bread should have certain characteristics. “When you hold a loaf, there should be weight, without heaviness, and the loaf should almost glow, like it’s got some life to it. When you cut into a loaf, it should have quite a glossy, uneven crumb that should bounce back a bit. When you taste a loaf, you should taste the natural sweetness. Yeast feeds on the sugars and should give you flavours that open up when you chew.” With this commitment to quality, it’s unsurprising Rachel has a legion of loyal customers that include restaurants and retailers around the country from North Canterbury to Auckland. She also occasionally sells at the Waipara farmers’ market. In fact, her bread is so popular, there’s a waiting list for it. With such success, it must be tempting to expand. She admits she has seen potential for growth in her business, but has chosen not to take it, preferring to stay true to her baking and make each loaf herself. “I sleep well that way,” Rachel says. Time spent in Europe has had a big influence on her work and she was particularly struck by the French attitude to this most basic of foods. “Bread wasn’t looked at as something you immediately put something on, but that a good loaf should stand on its own. And I also loved the way they match bread with food – for example, oysters with sourdough.” Today, Rachel still looks to outside influences. “I have loaves that I admire around the world,” she says. Every couple of years, she travels overseas to check out what others are doing in the world of baking. Rachel’s breads include European favourites, such as ciabatta and rustic French sticks, but she has also created seaweed bread, paraoa moana, that is New Zealand-influenced and a perfect companion to seafood.
Rachel Scott’s breads and (above)28 details from 29 her kitchen. But, despite the growth of the business, he moved to Christchurch and, three years he is determined to stick to the baking. later, started up the successful business he “There’s nothing better than taking a tray has today. of freshly cooked baguettes out of the The German Master Bakery’s most oven,” he says. popular breads include a multi-grain For Peter Bittermann, of the German loaf and campagne, a light sourdough. Master Bakery, the joy of baking is being Pumpernickel – that dense, dark, square involved in a project from start to finish. loaf many of us associate with German “You make the dough, you work it, you put bread – is also a favourite. “It’s steamed, it in the oven, you take it out, you sell it. In more than baked, and has no wheat, no other businesses, you are just a small part gluten and it’s very healthy and filling,” of the production chain,” he says. Peter says. It is the bread he eats at home. It’s a process that has kept Peter “It’s great with cheese or smoked salmon, interested for a long time – he’s clocked but I put anything on it – honey, jam …” up 38 years as a baker. He started out as Again, the focus is on keeping it natural. a teenager in Germany, where he did his Bread is a very simple food – it is flour, baking apprenticeship. He went on to start water, yeast and maybe some salt. Peter his own bakery, which became a booming doesn’t use any chemicals or additives. business with four busy shops. “Read the ingredients list on a loaf of But it was so busy, it was “just no life”, bread in the supermarket and there are 10 so when Peter saw a bakery for sale in or 15 numbers there.” One has to wonder Auckland, he decided to make a huge what they are, Peter says. change and move to New Zealand. Within Most of his produce is sold wholesale to six weeks, his whole family was living in restaurants and hotels in Christchurch and Auckland. However, in the end, Peter he fulfils a weekly order from Queenstown decided not to buy the bakery and instead for his pastries. Peter also has a fair opted to work in a bakery to see how number of German customers looking for things were done in New Zealand. In 2002, a taste of home. His mobile shop can be
For all her breads, she seeks out pure and flavourful ingredients and, Regardless of the variety, good where possible, keeps it local. The olive oil is from Mount Grey Olives in ingredients are critical. Jeremy uses organic Amberley, the walnuts are also local, and the grains and sea salt are from seeds and grains. However, he has “moved New Zealand. away from trying to certify what I’m doing For Rachel, the attraction of baking is that “there’s something of an and just try to use the best ingredients”. alchemy with bread”. Jeremy also has an ethical bent to his “You can create such a myriad of different flavours. You have to really supplies, as he tries to source local engage your intuition and your senses. For me, the difference between ingredients as much as possible and looks artisanal baking and a more commercial approach is the use of hands, for fair-trade produce. The bakery’s sugar, the feel of the dough … so you can make subtle adjustments.” for example, is bought from Trade Aid. Peter Bittermann; (above) at work in his Patience is also essential. Breadmaking isn’t a quick business. Rachel’s Unsurprisingly, a good supply of kitchen; (left) the finished product. pain au levain, a French sourdough, has a fermentation time of about flours is essential in baking and Jeremy 12 hours and, with wild yeasts, it can be even longer. This, of course, buys most of his from local producers. varies with temperature. Fermentation shortens in the summer when it’s However, quality always comes first and, warmer. Fluctuating temperatures and humidity all make the process if he cannot find what he needs locally, of baking a challenge every time. There is no one-size-fits-all aspect to he looks further afield. Jeremy hopes artisan baking. that as more independent bakeries start Jeremy MacCormack, of Bellbird Baked Goods, started his bakery to up in Canterbury, demand for top local fill a gap he saw in the market. “I didn’t see that combo of somewhere ingredients will increase. making really good pastries and really good organic bread. I’d seen it in Bellbird bread now sells at farmers’ Melbourne, but not here,” he says. So, with a catering qualification from markets around the city and is stocked at CPIT and several years baking experience under his belt, both at home selected retail stores and restaurants, but and abroad, he set up Bellbird. That was in 2008. Jeremy has exciting plans for the future. “Bread is basically a building block for so many daily meals,” Jeremy With his bakery now based in the new says. He finds the average supermarket loaf a “bit depressing”, but Woolston development, The Tannery, he’s practically lives on his own bread. His range of loaves includes ciabattas, hoping to open a small shop there, where sourdoughs and baguettes. The best sellers are the multi-grain and people can pop in for great pastries and sourdough breads. breads, and grab a coffee.
30 31 found at farmers’ markets in Kaiapoi, Ohoka and Oxford. Peter used to drive to different suburbs of Christchurch, but there were issues with local businesses and parking was often a challenge. It ™ was “a lot of trouble”, he says, so he no longer roves in his truck. KM Surgical Merivale’s French bakery, Le Panier Boulangerie, has a bounty of breads. Gnarled fruit breads sit alongside slender white baguettes Christchurch, Laser Skin Centre and golden ciabattas of varying shapes and sizes. No two loaves are Cosmetic Medicine and Surgery
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BEAUTY THERAPY APPEARANCE MEDICINE Gilles Thebault and (left) his baked treats. Clinical Director Dr Ken Macdonald Specialist Dermatologist identical, but they all look temptingly beautiful. Phone 03 377 1010 202 Bealey Ave, Christchurch | www.kmsurgical.co.nz Baker Gilles Thebault believes the key to good bread is to “just keep it rustic”. All his breads are made by hand and patience is required for some of the slow fermentations. It’s a case of “letting nature do its work”, he says. When it comes to the eating, Gilles continues with this casual approach and believes a good loaf is made to be torn rather than neatly cut with a knife. Before opening his own shop, Gilles had plenty of baking experience. He spent nine years working in London as a sous chef at several prestigious restaurants, including The Ivy. It was in London that he met his Kiwi wife and, six years ago, they moved back to New Zealand. They landed in Auckland first, spending three years there, and then headed to Christchurch in 2010. After the February 2011 earthquake, Gilles lost his job at the Grand Chancellor. He began baking and selling at the Christchurch Farmers’ Market in Riccarton and was surprised how quickly he sold out. At times, he sold 200 loaves in two hours, he says. Le Panier Boulangerie, which grew out of those market experiences, y 2013 opened earlier this year. “For me, it was a step to finding a job,” Gilles 13 JULy – 28 JUL says, pragmatically. It is a beautiful, bright shop with an open kitchen where you can see Gilles and his assistant baker, kneading dough and cutting and shaping croissants. The whole operation speaks of authenticity. Popular breads include ciabattas, baguettes and the pain complét (wholemeal). At weekends, a chocolate bread is also available. Gilles S KIDS tRAveL fRee describes this as a plain bread made with honey and cocoa powder. DURING ALL NZ SchooL hoLIDAy * It sounds the perfect loaf for a Sunday morning breakfast. However, his personal favourite is the walnut bread, a dusky creation made with LooKING foR Some fUN thINGS to Do wIth the KIDS theSe SchooL hoLIDAyS, we’ve Got the peRfect ActIvItIeS foR yoU IN local walnuts. Try some of these artisan breads and it’s difficult to go back to QUeeNStowN, fIoRDLAND & StewARt ISLAND *With full fare paying adults on selected departures. Maximum two school-aged children (up to 18 yrs) per adult. Conditions apply, see website for details. grabbing a sliced loaf in the supermarket. Rachel Scott sums it up: “I just want to make the best bread I possibly can. It’s the pursuit of excellence.” It’s good news for our Sunday mornings. Free 0800 65 65 01 www.realjourneys.co.nz/kidsgofree 32 where magic happens
Christchurch author Rachael King’s first children’s book, Red Rocks, has been shortlisted in this year’s New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. She owes her fascination with the sea partly to her father, the late Michael King, a prominent historian who loved to fish.
Words Kim Newth Photos Kelly Shakespeare
comfortable villa in a leafy St Albans Owhiro Bay, having flown down from his out of my head. I wanted to tell my version street seems far removed from the home in Auckland, where he lives with his of it … Stories of selkies do come from a Awindswept, rocky shoreline that mother, half-brother Davey and stepfather different part of the world, but what I was haunts the pages of author Rachael King’s Greg. His father lives in a tiny rented house thinking is if we have seals here, why not children’s book, Red Rocks. and spends much of his day in a shed seal people, too?” Rachael has made her home in above the house writing books about New In her tale, Jake meets a mysterious old Christchurch with husband Peter Rutherford Zealand wildlife. man, Ted, who lives in a little shack on the since 2008, when they moved from While his dad writes, Jake walks to Red beach and seems to know an awful lot about Wellington so Rachael could take up a Rocks. On this exposed stretch of coastline, seals and, as it transpires, selkies. Jake’s year-long writing residency at the University where the rust-red rocks rise high all around father falls in love with selkie Cara and seizes of Canterbury. The couple have two sons, him, Jake is aware this is a place where her seal skin from Jake so he can never Thomas, 6, and Alexander, 3. magic could happen. He finds what turns return it, thus trapping her in human form. On the day of our interview, Rachael out to be a selkie skin in a tiny cave near To say more would spoil the story. Let’s just greets me with an apology for the toys, the sea and decides to take it home. say selkies turn out to have a violent streak! books and general domestic muddle Stories of selkies go back a long way; Rachael, 42, feels “pretty honoured” spread through the kitchen and main living the Orkney Islands have many tales about to have been named as a finalist in the area – the inevitable outcome of life with these mysterious shape-shifters, so alluring Children’s Book Awards junior fiction section. young children. She shoos me through into to men. Many of the stories are about a “I’m the newbie in a field of old hands!” the villa’s tidier formal lounge, where she man stealing a selkie’s skin in order to marry Also on the shortlist are works by Kate De explains how the idea for Red Rocks first her and stop her from returning to the sea. Goldi and Gregory O’Brien, Barbara Else, came to her about six years ago. The tales usually end sadly, with the selkie David Hill and Jack Lasenby. She was taking a walk at the time, a new finding her skin again, returning to the sea “Jack Lasenby was a friend of my Dad’s. mother with a baby, towards Red Rocks on and abandoning her husband and family. I knew him when I was a kid. He lived Wellington’s rugged south coast, where “I have an interest in Celtic lore; I’m of at Paremata, where Dad lived when my there is a seal colony. She found herself Irish and Scottish ancestry. When I was 20 brother Jonathan and I stayed with him thinking about a story that would involve or so, I remember reading George Mackay in his cottage by the sea. He was one of a boy finding a seal skin there and taking Brown’s novel Beside The Ocean Of Time, many authors we met over the years,” says it home, only to discover it is the skin of a which involved a young man falling in love Rachael, whose home at that time, like selkie, or seal-woman. Without the skin, the with a selkie. It was set on the Orkney Jake’s, was in Auckland with her mother, selkie cannot return to the sea and must Islands. I re-read it again after writing my publisher Ros Henry, and stepfather, David stay in human form. book. Elworthy. In her book, the boy character, Jake, is “In Red Rocks, the story Jake’s father tells Her late father, prominent historian spending a few weeks with his father in him about selkies is one that came directly Michael King and Ros separated when
Rachael relaxes at her St Albans home. 34 35 Left: Some of Rachael’s treasured collectables, including the butterflies that inspired the book, The Sound of Butterflies. Below: Jonathan and Rachael (right), who was then aged 7, at the cottage where their Dad lived at Paremata, near Wellington, in the 1970s.
Rachael was four and Jonathan was seven. sudden pull of a kahawai? Or the pecking The title of this collection, published in Jonathan is a creative soul, too, having of a mullet?” 2011, comes from an essay Rachael came successfully pursued a career as a film- Rachael says she included these lines across while going through her father’s maker. in homage to her father. “It is completely papers. It began: “At the age of 30 I found Jake’s Dad’s house in Owhiro Bay is lifted from an essay he wrote about out that my name was not my real name.” based on Rachael’s memories of her growing up. Those lines are immortalised It goes on to describe how Michael father’s cottage in Paremata. “It was a in the Wellington Writers’ Walk along the found out that his grandfather had been little cottage. He’d say ‘I need time to waterfront and I wondered if anyone would Peter Crawley and that his grandmother, write now, so off you go’. We’d entertain spot that they were actually his words.” widowed in World War I, had changed ourselves on the beach. Then, later, he’d Words were her father’s forte, too, of her name and that of her children to King take us fishing, and he taught us to row at course, although his field was New Zealand when she married a New Zealand soldier an early age. His father and mother took non-fiction. Michael King is remembered as and moved from Glasgow. It’s an intriguing me fishing and taught me to row as well. one of New Zealand’s foremost historians. story, one of many in the collection that “My brother and I used to row around He won awards for his many works of New captures the thoughts of this multi-faceted the estuary at my grandparents’ place all Zealand history and biography and wrote man, who fearlessly explored questions the time. Kids had a lot more freedom the best seller The Penguin History of New of Maori and Pakeha identity, yet also back then,” Rachael says. Zealand. enjoyed his share of gossip and good Some lines in Red Rocks feel as though Some time after her father’s death, aged humour. they could only have been written by 58, in a road crash in 2004, Rachael and The collection acknowledges what someone who knows how to fish. Jake is her brother, along with Geoff Walker at Rachael’s father meant not just to her, but fishing with his father and thinking about Penguin, pulled together a book of his to the country. “I have met so many people what he might catch. “Would he feel the selected works called The Silence Beyond. who gush about the time he gave up for
36 37 display case of butterflies on her bedroom the spire fell off the Cathedral. That earthquake, which is in wall. She thought they would make an Magpie Hall, was in September, at 4.30am. People were quite attractive book cover; the story inside the freaked out when they read that after the September 2010 book cover grew into an Edwardian tale of earthquake!” a young butterfly collector, Thomas Edgar, These days, Rachael combines writing with part-time casual who returns to England a broken man work at the Children’s Bookshop and working as writer in after an expedition in the Amazon at the residence at Hagley College. She has a lot of new projects on height of Brazil’s rubber boom. Published the go and is proud to admit writing 32,000 words in January in New Zealand in 2006, The Sound alone, although she will not discuss her work in progress. of Butterflies won the 2007 Montana This month, she will travel to Wellington and Masterton as New Zealand Book Award for Best First part of the Children’s Book Awards celebrations, and also to the Novel. It was also published in the United Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival. Kingdom and the United States, as She grabs writing time when she can, fitting it in around the well as translated into eight languages. family’s busy schedule. Her husband works as a drama teacher Rachael has virtually all the various printed at a Christchurch school, so shares the child care in the school editions, along with the display case of holidays. “That’s when I work from 9am to 5pm – a total luxury butterflies that started it all. “It was a for me!” good start to my career. It supported my Rachael recalls the late Margaret Mahy coming to the launch writing life for a couple of years.” of Magpie Hall and asking if she’d ever skinned a tiger. “She Her funds didn’t stretch to first-hand said ‘I can’t believe you’ve never skinned a tiger because it research in Brazil, but she immersed reads like you have’. That’s the highest compliment one author herself in the journals of English can give to another.” gentlemen explorers of the day who had Neither has she ever touched a seal skin, although she writes been there. “I also gave it to a Brazilian so convincingly of it in Red Rocks. There’s a deliberately timeless friend to read to make sure there was quality to this book. As Rachael herself notes, it’s like Jake nothing in there that would offend anyone has gone on “a tech-free holiday” where there are no mobile and to help me with the Portuguese.” phones, gaming consoles or TVs. It doesn’t leave much: just the It was a novel that almost didn’t get freedom to explore and the landscape of the imagination. finished. Financial considerations saw her put writing on the backburner for a Rachael’s books; The Sound of Butterflies, time while she worked as an advertising translated into multiple languages. manager at Staple magazine to earn money and she also set it aside after her father’s death. them and how special he made them feel. inspired by the legends of King Arthur and “For a year and a half I didn’t write He made everyone he met feel important the wild landscape of Cornwall. “I went to a word of it. After Dad died, I thought Using our Air Miles just didn’t and interesting.” Cornwall when I was 21 and loved it. Those about how I’d never got to show it to him. Over summer, Rachael and her family books made me believe there was magic in I came to the realisation that anything like to spend time at Opoutere on the the world. I still think there is, though not in could be around the corner and that if I seem worth the trouble... Coromandel Peninsula, where her Dad the literal way I imagined as a child.” was going to do something I’d wanted lived in later life. “We go out in his boat. Creative writing is something Rachael to do all my life then I needed to do it. I His house up in the bush is now owned by always enjoyed, but did not pursue had an inheritance that helped immensely Waikato University, but we can go and use seriously until her late 20s. After leaving with finishing it. It took the pressure off, it. We did take Thomas fishing a couple of school, she enrolled in an arts degree at financially. I think Dad would have been summers ago, but didn’t catch anything, but Auckland University and also started playing chuffed to know I used it to write a book.” we will take him out again.” bass guitar in a series of bands. At 21, she Rachael’s second novel, Magpie Hall, Rachael knows her father would have took a year off and went to live in London also involves a collector, this time a enjoyed Red Rocks. “He’d have appreciated before completing her degree in 1994. collector of tattoos and vintage clothing, Staples Rodway has the elemental nature of it and its She then began working in radio, hosting Rosemary Summers, whose grandfather’s mythological aspects.” Rachael remembers an arts programme on 95bFM and selling legacy to her is a taxidermy collection. moved just down the road him giving her the set of The Chronicles advertising. This she continued to do, It’s a kind of modern-day ghost story with to 314 Riccarton Road. of Narnia books for her seventh birthday selling for magazines. a twist. Rachael describes it as a 19th and also reading her Watership Down by A watershed year for her was 2001, the century English Victorian novel set in Richard Adams. “I grew up loving the idea year she completed a Masters in Creative Canterbury. “It’s got earthquakes in it as of children’s stories where magical things Writing from the International Institute of well. A lot of people were surprised when Telephone (03) 343 0599 happen to ordinary children.” Modern Letters at Victoria University. There Christchurch got hit by an earthquake, Email [email protected] Another childhood favourite was The Rachael wrote what she describes as a first, but I wasn’t, as I’d done the research and www.staplesrodway.com Dark Is Rising sequence by Susan Cooper, practice novel, before being inspired by a knew about the 1888 earthquake when
38 39 life in the pressure cooker It has been a long, slow recovery for earthquake-hit businesses, but what challenges are firing up our restaurateurs?
Words Kim Newth Photos Meredith Dyer Left: Café Valentino owner Michael Turner and (above) pizza chef William Adams.
afé Valentino owner Michael Turner in 2007 and had plenty of development When you buy a takeaway coffee and you His advice to others in hospitality, the quakes, Sam says. One was to open work. The council believes that signifies comes prepared with notes for our potential. The hard part was convincing realise that you’ve had to work 20 minutes particularly those frustrated with council immediately with whatever was available; progress for the city and exciting times Cchat about life since his Colombo other people of this. for that coffee, it puts a whole new spin on consent processes, is to be patient. “The the other was to take the time to rebuild ahead in the restaurant and bar industry. St restaurant was destroyed in the February Getting through the detailed things.” council staff we encountered were well- something great. “The shackles of the old However, patience and perseverance are 2011 earthquake. Heading his notes is one engineering evaluation of the near-century- The final hurdle was getting insurance. meaning, hard-working people just doing city have gone. Christchurch is now a clean essential ingredients. word: “frustrations”. old building, and then the council consent “It had to happen and eventually, at a cost, their job. The way to get things done slate. Even though hospitality, by its nature, Finding suitable premises has been a As he observes, frustrations for quake-hit process, was “painstakingly slow”. it did.” through the council is to work with them, is extremely difficult, we can do some major hurdle for many, such as Christopher business owners began early over issues “As weeks turned into months, and He compares the whole process of rather than against them.” exciting things here.” Palma, who owns Nobanno Restaurant Bar such as access to their buildings and months turned into a year, I opted to find restarting his business to running a C1 Espresso owner Sam Crofskey, who is New cafés and restaurants opening in & Café previously on the corner of Armagh insurance. His plans to rebuild in Colombo other temporary employment and took a marathon, getting to the end and then Canterbury president of the New Zealand Christchurch are helping to create a vibrant and Colombo streets, another site wrecked St were dropped once it became obvious job driving a van for a car-rental company, having someone tell you to repeat the Restaurant Association, says getting any hospitality scene, Sam says. by the February 2011 earthquake. the cost was prohibitive. Michael and picking their customers up from the course. new hospitality venture off the ground in According to Anne Columbus, the After months of looking, he found a his wife, Barbara, considered shifting to airport,” he says. This turned out to be an Finding suitable staff has been another Christchurch is “100 per cent hard”. He Christchurch City Council’s acting unit building at 1060 Ferry Rd. “Of course, once Auckland with their four children before unexpected highlight of 22 months out of big struggle, but he’s now satisfied he has should know, having been without premises manager for inspections and enforcement, you’ve found a place, you then have to eventually finding a suitable site for a business. a great team serving a supportive clientele. for 20 months before opening in the old 13 new liquor licences have been issued go through all the structural engineering restaurant in St Asaph St. The former bike “Working with a great bunch of people “People are hugely appreciative of us High St post office building on the corner of for businesses within the four avenues reports.” He now has permission to reopen shop, once the clubrooms for Social Credit, working for the minimum wage gave me a restarting and the effort we’ve put in,” Tuam and High streets in November. since January 2012, and 11 more are in the next month. had been strengthened with steel beams perspective on things that I had forgotten. Michael says. Two different paths presented after system, awaiting completion of building To stay positive through trying times,
40 41 so it’s not quite so noisy. I’ve got a dream He had looked seriously at three or four restaurant – the road to get there wasn’t other sites, but these were dropped for easy, but it was worth it.” various reasons, such as difficulties getting Also to open in the central city soon is insurance. chef Jonny Schwass’ latest project, the Jonny has been closely involved in the Harlequin Public House. It is due to launch building’s restoration. The building consent next month in a restored 1899 Victorian villa process has been far from straight forward, at the junction of Victoria, Salisbury and but he accepts the time it has taken to get Montreal streets. compliance. “Obviously, if we were just It is now more than two years since one business picking up and transferring Jonny’s Restaurant Schwass was destroyed somewhere else, we would have had lots by the February 2011 earthquake. In the of site options and the process would have interim, he has kept afloat through creative been quicker, as we would not have had the solutions such as Schwass in a Box. As an whole of Canterbury trying to get through ambassador for design house Gaggenau, the consent process.” Jonny was able to prepare food in one of His new venture will serve classic the company’s mobile showrooms. Set up European cuisine seven days a week. The in a temporary furniture warehouse, it was idea is it will always be open for people to used to produce multi-course meals for drop by for coffee, lunch, dinner or drinks on Jonny Schwass’ latest project, the Christopher Palma at the new Nobbano. groups of 10. “So it was a showroom during the terrace. “We won’t do bookings, but we Harlequin Public House. the day and we used it, on and off, as a will always have space for you. The building dining room during the evening. It was a really interesting situation,” Jonny says. Christopher enrolled in an MBA programme the February 2011 quake hit, ended up The Charcoal Relief Unit was another has lots of little rooms and we’re putting in an oyster bar, at the University of Canterbury. “It has kept being demolished. “We wasted six months, successful venture born out of necessity. too. It’ll feel very homely.” As well as a bar menu and me going. It really helped me to keep my because it never occurred to us to look for “We needed something that didn’t need bistro, Jonny has planned a space for luxurious private mind off things.” new premises in the intervening period.” gas, water or power. We built a barbecue dining for special celebrations. The support of former customers has When Lisa finally did start looking, there trailer and it goes to people’s homes and Moroccan restaurant Casbah also lost premises in the been another big motivator. “I’ve had wasn’t a lot available. “It was pretty grim for parties, serving simple but delicious food. central city. Owner Adel Aberkane and his wife, Nike, so many emails from customers who a while.” It has been to all sorts of things – wine decided “to cut their losses” and move on at a fairly early really valued our service; it has been so A phone call from developer Richard and food and beer festivals, great dinner stage, accepting half of what they were insured for. With encouraging,” he says. Diver offering a site on Victoria St saved parties, corporate functions.” Schwass in some help from Recover Canterbury, they soon had the Sometimes a lucky break makes all the the day. “I was down here in five minutes,” a Box has now been packed up, while the business up and running again in Colombo St, Sydenham. difference. Lisa Scholz, of Saggio di vino, is recalls Lisa, who says it then took a lot Charcoal Relief Unit continues “to crack “It has been really good. We found the council pretty feeling very fortunate to be back operating of imagination and planning to bring the along”. helpful and we were able to get insurance on the new site. in Victoria St. “We were at 183 and now Saggio di vino atmosphere to the new However, Jonny’s main focus lately has Our clientele have also been a big support for us.” we’re at 179 – it is pure luck that we’ve had restaurant, which opened a year ago. “We been developing the new public house in The couple have since sold the Sydenham business, this opportunity.” managed to achieve that, though. Ninety the building he found last June. “I wanted although they still own the brand. They have taken a Saggio di vino was forced out of its old per cent of the people who come here say to create a space that looked like it had year off with their 16-month-old daughter Amina and are site by the September 2010 quake; the it’s better and I have to agree with that, in survived the earthquake. I was lucky to get developing a new project. This involves the creation of a building, which was under repair when a way. We’re away from the intersection, hold of a great old building in Victoria St.” Moroccan food brand in conjunction with new partners,
42 43 WongiWongi WilsonWilson With building consent approved, Mark has finally been able to go ahead and set up business in Sydenham. “[But], with less bureaucracy, we should have been able to open pre-Christmas quite easily.” Council resource consents manager John Higgins says resource consent for the Belgian Beer Café was processed in 15 working days, which is within the 20 working days required under the Resource Management Act. “It was a six-week end- to-end process, because a neighbour’s approval was required and obtained.” Resource consent was approved last July. He suggested it was “not uncommon” for information provided in a resource consent application to be required again at building consent stage. OPENING 1ST JUNE Council building operations manager 147 Colombo Street, Beckenham Ethan Stetson notes the Building Act Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5.30, and the Resource Management Act are and Saturday 10 - 5 separate pieces of legislation, with separate Phone 03 260 0147 processes and very different outcomes. www.sweetpeawillow.co.nz “While it might seem to some customers that they are replicating information during the respective application processes, the particular detail that is needed under each
Belgian Beer Café Torenhof piece of legislation is unlikely to be exactly owner Mark McGuinness. the same.” According to a recent council report, from END OF LINE STOCK SALE last December to February, the proportion of commercial building consents processed backed with 25 years’ experience in the months working with a property owner in per month within the statutory time ON NOW AT CITTA OUTLET hospitality industry. The couple have Cathedral Square, where he had planned frame averaged 92 per cent. For resource secured a building in Marshland Rd, to open three restaurants, before the consents, the figure was 99 per cent. Marshlands, and expect to launch their owner pulled out. “It was a waste of As the council has been receiving record business next month. The goal will be to everybody’s time and resources.” numbers of applications, it recommends deliver fast, fresh Moroccan cuisine, with Mark had to start searching for a site people get in touch early in their projects to BEACH TOWELS NOW $45 everything made on the premises. all over again, eventually settling on The discuss what information is needed. SCARVES NOW $29 If there’s a positive side to life since Colombo last November. “It was at that Meanwhile, results of a University of ALL PRICES the quakes, Adel feels it has been the point that I ran into the delightful process Canterbury study, released in March, found SELECTED $35 freedom to explore new ideas. “We of building consent with the council. There nearly 700 bars, cafés and restaurants had BAGS changed the product when we came to seems to be a complete disjoin in council reopened in Christchurch following the 2011 ARE HEAVILY Sydenham and then we realised we had between resource consent and building earthquakes, with more than 150 opening DISCOUNTED ITALIAN CERAMICS / to change again to get to the next step. consent. What should be a 20-day process since Christmas. DISCOUNTED! We’ve been pushed out of our comfort just drags on while you get asked these University senior marketing lecturer Dr GLASSES / CUSHION COVERS / zone.” ridiculous questions.” Sussie Morrish says many restaurants have Adel sees plenty of options for family- Delays in processing consents have relocated, while others have rebranded. WALLETS / SEE IN STORE FOR MORE! run restaurants in Christchurch. “If you been both costly and frustrating, he says. People found innovative solutions, such have a good concept, it should be “They don’t realise the ramifications of as using containers and caravans, when possible to develop what you want.” their actions.” There were additional something more permanent was not Belgian Beer Café Torenhof owner issues with The Colombo itself. “We possible. CITTA OUTLET CHRISTCHURCH Piazza, 752 Main North Road, Belfast. Mark McGuinness has had a trying time were told there was building consent for “Resilience is a cliché, but it takes a Phone No: 03 323 9878. Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am – 4pm. since being forced to quit the Canterbury a restaurant when they didn’t have that, special kind of individual to go through all Provincial Chambers. He spent seven which delayed it, too.” this and keep on going,” she says. OPEN 7 DAYS · WWW.CITTAOUTLET.CO.NZ
44 erry Rd takes you many places. It its smokehouse. Ruth, however, with her central-city business, and is welcoming a starts within the four avenues and business situated at the city end of Ferry new set of customers. Along with the tried- Fends as a seaside suburb begins. Rd, is competing not only with town’s and-true fans, the Woolston community is Along the stretch that cuts through proximity, but Coupland’s, which satisfies stopping in for a meal and a Twisted Ankle. Woolston, you can sample a range of local workers’ tastes and budgets. They Clare says some patrons live within walking international cuisines, enjoy freshly brewed could, instead, have lunch made by Ruth, distance and are “excited about having a beer and buy whole fillets of smoked a former chef of Wallpaper magazine in place they can call their local”. salmon. London. Three Boys Brewery, however, was born Delve further into the suburb to discover Ruth has called Woolston home for the in Woolston. A landmark since 2005, it a precinct showing plenty of potential. past five years. She enjoys the riverside originally set up in Garlands Rd, but, since Inspired by international and old-world walk that takes her daughter to Opawa December, has been making beer in its style, The Tannery’s rejuvenation is in very School, the closeness of town and the new brewery in Ferry Rd. good hands. beach, as well as the promise of the Ferry Owner Ralph Bungard lives in Avoca Iron signs bracket both ends of Woolston Road Master Plan. Over time, the grey Valley, but aside from its proximity to Woolston village, which bustles with hungry people concrete view that accompanies a latte at home, it is Woolston’s character he Working-class history meets international style as the clock strikes noon. Queues out the The Catering Belle will be enhanced by appreciates the most. “It’s a mix of in a suburb staging a comeback. door of the Woolston Bakery encourage landscaping, brightening up the main industry, housing and all sort of socio- some fluoro-clad workers to look elsewhere trunk line. economic groups; grooviness and all the Words Kate Preece for lunch. There’s KB’s Bakery down the It was the signs of future development alternativeness that comes with it.” road, but also Mediterranean, Cambodian, that encouraged the owners of former Ralph says the silver lining from Photos Doug Richardson Indian, Nepalese, Japanese and Pacific Poplar Lanes brewery The Twisted Hop Canterbury’s earthquakes has been Island food from which to choose. to choose Woolston for a new branch. that parts of Christchurch that had “lost Ruth Trevella, owner of The Catering “Everyone seemed to be going west and their mojo” to the central city are now Belle, sees restaurant Holy Smoke as the we thought ‘there’s a need out east and a experiencing a comeback. bastion of regeneration of a suburb with potential for hospitality to grow out here’,” “The earthquakes have brought life back a working-class history. Since 2008, Holy co-owner Clare Hardman says. to them and you see examples of that not Smoke has given people a reason to leave Open since November 2011, the just in Woolston, but in Addington, Lincoln the confines of the CBD for a flavoursome restaurant gets regular beer deliveries from Rd, Sydenham and those parts of town. meal or to visit its next-door deli, where its Sockburn brewery, established after “It’s the evolution and revolution of parts you can buy meat products fresh from the 2011 earthquakes put a stop to the of the city. Everything’s cyclic, and the
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Holy Smoke is a well-known hot spot for Europe, which has opened a spot for Nepalese off Everest Indian’s menu (shop The imminent opening of The Tannery’s first stage to fossick through in the Ferry Antique Centre (598 lunch and dinner (650 Ferry Rd), while lunch opposite The Brewery. 3/608 Ferry Rd). Grab a souvlaki from will add gift stores Toi Toi and Teepee, fashion stores Ferry Rd). Buying second-hand goods at the SPCA The Brewery has plenty of temptations on Beer lovers should head to Three Boys Chez Sabry Mediterranean Cuisine (612 Dead Set and Where The Fox Lives, children’s clothing Opshop (656 Ferry Rd) helps Canterbury animals, while its winter menu (3 Garlands Rd). Gustav’s Brewery (592 Ferry Rd) and The Woolston Ferry Rd) or something with rice from shop Cows Go Moo, tattooing and piercing studio Purple Patch (398 Ferry Rd) is all about handcrafts. Kitchen and Wine Bar, and the Woolston Hop (616/618 Ferry Rd). Sushi Kim (614 Ferry Rd). Absolution, design boutique The Flock and Smith’s Portstone Garden Centre (465 Ferry Rd) has Markets are due to open inside The There’s taro and fried chicken at Tiresa’s Cafés include one inside the Portstone Bookshop and postal centre to the atrium. With an everything a gardener could wish for, while Cycleways Tannery’s atrium. Taste of the Pacific (711C Ferry Rd), Garden Centre (465 Ferry Rd) and The outlook on Tanner St, discover The Bikery, The Kite (1 Garlands Rd) covers cyclists. Plenty of bread is made in Woolston, beside Green Chilli Thai and the old site Catering Belle (390 Ferry Rd), while coffee Shop, Bridget Ellery Design, Sadhana Surfboards, For groceries, check out New World (7-11 St Johns with Nikau Bakehouse (100 Rutherford St), of the Woolston Bakery, now operating beans can be bought from Caffe Prima, a Wyrcan Book Art Studio and The Silversmiths Guild of St), previously SuperValue, and Holy Smoke Deli (650 The Tanner Street Bakery (a collaboration across the road at 622 Ferry Rd. large-scale roastery (204 Cumnor Tce) that Canterbury. Ferry Rd), where whole and half fillets of smoked between Bellbird Baked Goods and For Cambodian, there’s Khmer Heir sells its coffee in biodegradable bags. Treasure Trove Clothing and Alterations (416 Ferry salmon are a hit. You can buy booze from Henry’s (8 Traditionally Tuscan) and Breads of Noodle House (669 Ferry Rd), or sample Rd) sells new and near-new clothing and there’s plenty Portman St).
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earthquakes have sped up some of those At the northern end, new restaurant and tampons. We’re sticking to cycles.” Gustav’s Kitchen and Wine Bar is food,” Richard says. The rejuvenation of Woolston continues named after Gustav Lindstrom, The bottle store, not far from the further towards the hills. A site once home who helped construct the original deli, is likely to stock everything from to a burgeoning tannery industry at the end Woolston Tanneries buildings in Cassels and Sons beer to Spanish of the 19th century is being heralded as the the 1870s and is the great-great brandy and French wine. “It will be city’s next big shopping and entertainment grandfather of Alasdair’s son-in-law a bottle store with a good, complete destination. Instead of processing pelts, the Joe Shanks (an active player in The offering.” A filled ciabatta roll, made Woolston tanneries’ 1.8-hectare section is Tannery’s revitalisation). It will have an Richard won’t be donning an onsite daily, is a hearty being transformed, brick by brick, under arts and crafts feel, with William Morris apron; he’s there to design the lunch for $7.50 at The the ownership of Alasdair Cassels, property wallpaper and high wooden panelling eateries and ensure they operate Catering Belle. A club developer and founder of the Cassels and – reminiscent of the billiard room in well. “I’ve got a sense for what it is sandwich is just $5. Sons Brewing Company. Alasdair’s red-zoned Sumner home. that people don’t know they want Even before The Brewery bar opened Its accompanying bar will include a yet,” says Richard of his culinary Missing New in June 2011, Alasdair had a clear vision grand piano, circa 1915 and imported nous, handy when it comes to Brighton’s Bridge for the complex. Extravagant ideas were from Berlin, in a corner, awaiting Gustav’s Kitchen’s four-oven Aga. Street Bakehouse inspiring, almost hard to believe, and now, eager musicians. Captain chairs and Visible to diners and encroaching pies? They’re being as the promises become a reality, The octagonal tables will line the long on dining room space, the Aga made at Breads of Tannery is at its most impressive. dining area. produces most of Gustav’s Kitchen’s Europe’s bakery The removal and hand-cleaning of at The last bar to be opened in the dishes, supplemented by an enclosed and sold at its new least 150,000 bricks from the triple-brick atrium will be the Sow’s Ear, with a kitchen. “There’s no other restaurant deli across from The Cumnor Tce row was something Alasdair distinctive art-nouveau style and a in Christchurch serving off an Aga,” Brewery. Sushi Kim has eight made happen, despite the cost. Once the details ECan’s number to call if odour is row waits to be dressed in weatherboards dramatic curved ceiling. Richard says. “In fact, I can only find pieces of nice and buildings were reinforced, the bricks were spoiling your lunch. Alasdair regularly and welcome more tenants, mainly Helping ensure the eateries hit the one on the internet in the world that spicy chicken sushi returned to the façades and cover the complains about the factory breaching its manufacturers. mark is celebrity chef and Waltham uses an Aga.” for $7.50. Add a rice Tanner St shops, too. resource consent and says he will continue The Victorian art-nouveau style atrium resident Richard Till. His advisory The Woolston Markets will offer ball and pay only $10. It’s not just the buildings getting extra the battle to put a stop to the stench. on Cumnor Tce is a work of art. An oval, role includes writing the first menus handmade cakes, too, with Richard treatment, either. Environmental factors With stage one due to open, a dozen green stained-glass window is positioned for Gustav’s Kitchen and the Sow’s focused on presenting an extensive are important to the Cassels family, who shops, two bars, a restaurant and high in the eaves and combines two of nine Ear and making sure the Woolston array of baking treats as pleasing to have organised community clean-ups of tearooms will add to the reasons to head windows salvaged from New Brighton’s Markets food store is more than your the eye as to the tastebuds. Fancy some chop suey? the Heathcote River and already notice an to The Tannery Boutique Art and Retail Ozone Hotel (built in 1914, but demolished usual deli. “From my point of view, it’s Lovers of Cassels and Sons’ brews It’s the most popular dish improvement. Brewing waste goes to a Emporium. The Tanner St row is home to after the earthquakes). The view down the important you can get the milk and will be excited to hear about the in Tiresa’s Taste of the pig farmer and an ongoing fight continues the first tenants, ranging from a bakery 500sqm arcade is dotted with art nouveau the bread, and vegetables and meat new brewery. Originally, all the beer Pacific’s bain-marie, with against unpleasant smells emitted from a and book shop, to a yoga studio and a furniture and 300,000 French tiles, continued and everything you might possibly under the label was made using meals from $3.50 to $8.50. nearby gelatine plant. On the day Avenues film-production company. Neighbouring in the opulent bathrooms, where a black- want. But, obviously, we’re not going equipment in plain view of patrons visits, a chalkboard outside The Brewery this attractive block, another section of the and-white pattern features on the walls. to be selling toothpaste, toilet paper at The Brewery. Now, in a building at
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Coffee connoisseurs will be satisfied by a latte at The Brewery – not just a place for beer. Name: The Footwear Name: Wholesale Name: The Outlet Name: Importers Outdoor Barista “Tonto” might have to peel you off Factory Direct Where: 58 Rutherford St Clothing Sale the ceiling. Where: 47C Garlands Rd Where: 60 Broad St Two businesses operate Where: 7 Dalziel Pl Occupying its spot for It’s not so much a under one roof here, Delve deep in an industrial- more than a decade, this question of what is sold where you’ll find zone maze, follow the signs, Not far from town is your first coffee stop, shoe shop has a well- at Wholesale Direct, as walls lined with Crocs and you’ll be rewarded with Portstone Garden Café. Grab something healthy established range of what is not. Freezers footwear at one end, and clearance and end-of-line to eat to counter a decadent mochachino. footwear, from slippers to stock everything from surf and ski wear at the outdoor wear by Kiwistuff Hi-Tec boots. You can pick lamb shanks and rib- other. The store crosses and Moa. Designed in New up a pair of Christchurch- eye to icecream, while all ages, with organic Zealand, both ranges cater made Commando-M casual chips, confectionery, merino babywear, as well for the whole family, keeping Enjoy a hot coffee on the couch at Holy shoes, or splash out on biscuits and condiments as children’s clothing and us warm during the winter Smoke, or be seated in the dining room if boots from Italy. burst out of boxes. footwear. months. you prefer.
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Name: The Silversmiths Guild Formed in 1982, The Silversmiths Guild of Canterbury was a long-term tenant in the Arts Centre, but its new post-quake home is at The Tannery (39C Tanner St), where it runs beginners and advanced silversmith courses.
Name: Woolston Brass Inside The Tannery’s atrium. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, the Sid Creagh Memorial Band Hall on Dampier St resounds with music from New Zealand’s most successful competitive brass band. The the Maunsell St end of the complex, It will welcome all types of music, The Bikery The Footwear Factory Woolston Brass band, formed in 1891, is a 16 times as much beer is being from classical to punk rock, and will self-funding organisation that operates three brewed under the watchful eye of be able to cater for circus arts one Christchurch customers of online specialist for high-performance cycling Have you ever seen your feet smile? That’s what they’ll do when you take training bands, known collectively as the Englishman Simon Bretherton, who night and a corporate function the products, bikecycle.co.nz, are in luck. They can now view products that them to The Footwear Factory. There is something for everyone, including Woolston Brass Academy, to ensure the legend last worked for Little Creatures in next. The one-stage venue has a abound on the website, with a trip to retail shop The Bikery in The Tannery specially priced end-of line items. Name brands like Hi-Tec, New Balance, complex, where they can experience the range in person and discuss their McKinley and others too numerous to mention await your feet’s pleasure. continues. Australia. The new space enables 400-person capacity, with an upstairs component, accessory or bicycle requirements. It is the place to go for Also competing for your attention are school shoes, tramping boots, Cassels and Sons to experiment mezzanine adding a second bar. custom-built bikes, stock bikes from beginner to elite level, and for bike ladies’ fashion boots and safety boots. Happy feet is not just the name of a Name: Tanner Street Bakery with more brews and spread their Outdoor areas will allow audiences fitting and fitness testing. penguin. It is a visit to The Footwear Factory. The bakers start work at 4am in a bakery that amber gold further afield. A bottling to spill out into the night, and artists 33 Tanner St, Ph: 389 2908 47C Garlands Rd, Ph: 389 3431 has brought two companies together. Bellbird plant will be added by the end of the ease of driving up to the door bikecycle.co.nz thefootwearfactory.co.nz Baked Goods and Traditionally Tuscan are the year, signalling an end to the to unload equipment – something sharing ovens to deliver more of their products fancy flip-top bottles, which do not a seasoned performer such as Al showcased at farmers’ markets. Jeremy offer a long enough shelf life. Cider knows is incredibly important. MacCormack (Bellbird Baked Goods) will have production is on the horizon, too, But will it work in Woolston? his artisan breads and pastries on the shelves, with apples sourced from Motueka Yes, thanks to the quakes, Al says. while Paula Barbafiera (Traditionally Tuscan) and sampling hopefully possible by Christchurch residents have become will add her biscuits and cakes to the mix, August. used to driving across the city for alongside an Italian-style coffee bar. The only change to Alasdair’s something worthwhile, and, with the original plans is the situation of The multiple restaurants and bars onsite, Name: Three Boys Brewery Park, The Tannery’s performance ample parking, and Ferrymead For the past eight years, the Three Boys centre. Originally destined for the Central’s eateries just down the road, Brewery has been at home in Woolston, middle of the atrium, it will now be there are several reasons a night in producing 250,000 to 300,000 litres of beer inside a stand-alone building at the Woolston might become a regular annually. The end of a lease and earthquake opposite end of the atrium to The event. The Outlet Store - Clothing and Footwear Portstone Garden Centre damage prompted a move from Garlands Rd Brewery. At the helm is muso Al With the plans in place, it is now to its new premises at 592 Ferry Rd, where it is Park, owner of former music venue just a matter of patience. The Park’s Count on a warm welcome when you call on The Outlet Store to resolve Portstone is renowned for its broad selection of plants so allow some your winter clothing needs and see the latest winter Crocs, too. There is time when you drop in to peruse them. Walking from the spacious continuing to act as an off-licence liquor outlet, Al’s Bar, which was demolished grand opening will be some time outdoor and snow clothing for infants to adults and a great range of ski and carparks, you’ll note the large range of glazed and lightweight terracotta as well as a place to see brewing in action. following the earthquakes. Five years after August and The Tannery has down jackets, pants, gloves, baselayers and hats. You’ll look cool in the new pots. As you discover the pleasant café and wait for your latte to arrive, The larger site gives brewers the space to try of co-ordinating acts and attracting several stages to go. range of winter attire and feel warm all at the same time. Visit the website you’ll notice Portstone’s new gift range. If a landscaping matter comes different beers, such as coconut milk stout, crowds are the perfect background In the meantime, a trip down Ferry and you’ll realise there is no need to shelter inside when the snow and rain to mind, ask the helpful and knowledgeable staff. They’ll even visit your described as chocolatey and coconuty, and for the key player in Christchurch’s Rd can be quite an adventure. You’ll are falling. property and draw up plans for you. very tempting. newest function centre. be surprised where it can lead you. 58 Rutherford St, Ph: 982 4882 465 Ferry Rd, Ph: 389 4352 theoutletshop.co.nz portstone.co.nz 50 home
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steep incline and is shaped almost like a boomerang. The Austins chose to build on the highest part of the site, leaving a large wedge of unused land, now planted in native trees, below the house. Architect Noel Strez visited the site before the couple purchased the property. “The previous owner had drawn up a plan for a house on the site, which was awful,” Lance says. “So, before we bought it, we got Noel up here to make sure we could design something we actually wanted to live in. “He basically took one look, and was like, ‘no worries’, so, we bought it.” own a leafy lane in an established 2009, Lance had no qualms about diving in Lance’s own firm, Bushnell Builders, did part of Huntsbury Hill, is a distinctly head first. the rest. While he visited the site daily, Dcontemporary house. “It’s about knowing what to put in. These a site foreman kept the project running Builder Lance Austin and wife Tania spent days, there are so many choices, but with smoothly in his absence. 20 years renovating and reselling seven experience and inside knowledge, it’s As well as dealing with the site’s elevation character homes in Christchurch, but when certainly a lot easier to make decisions,” he and strange shape, Lance and his team it came to their own home, they went ultra- says. had to complete extensive ground works modern and ultra-functional. While some might baulk at the idea of before the build could begin. Excavation “The properties we were renovating living on a steep hill since Canterbury’s down to 4.5 metres ensured a solid base for were old, because those are the houses earthquakes, Lance knows his house is concrete buttresses. Machines had to start that needed work,” Tania says. “I guess we practically fused with the surrounding land. at the southern end of the section, creating always knew we were going to build, and we Located high on the hillside and flat land as they progressed. knew we would go modern.” surrounded by established properties, A neighbour’s retaining wall could have Despite it being their first build, the the site was both unusual in shape and in been compromised by the ground works, Austins chose a challenging site and a building requirements. While the footprint sending the whole hillside sliding down complex design when they set to work in is almost 900 square metres, it sits on a into the Austins’ section. “It was definitely a
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challenge, but it means now we know how the site means walking down one staircase colour and save the modern house from much concrete and steel has gone into this and up another to get to the front door. feeling stark. house and how safe it is,” Lance says. The top floor has a large open-plan living The main living and entertaining area More than three years after moving into space, dining area, and kitchen, with a is on the top floor, with beautiful views of their house, with their three young adult private lounge, master bedroom and office. the city and Canterbury Plains. While most sons, the Austins say they wouldn’t change “We designed the top floor for us, really, of this area is laid with high-gloss Spanish a single aspect of its design. with the kids’ floor below, although, of flooring tiles, the look is softened by carpet The incline of the site means that while course, it never really works out like that,” squares. the house has 330 square metres of living Tania says. “We built this house as a party house, space, it is split over two main levels, each The couple chose a neutral palette of really. We love entertaining and, with three of which has sub-levels. Huge wrap-around Resene ‘Quarter Tea’, interspersed with boys, we always have people around,” balconies, on two levels, make the most of accents of ‘Masala’. “Initially, I was going to Lance says. “I’m into cooking, and I the stunning views. go for white, but Noel talked me out of it, wanted the type of kitchen where people Visitors to the home enter through the and he turned out to be right,” Tania says. can sit and chat to you, and you can be front door, which opens on to a landing Huge open spaces and floor-to-ceiling part of the party while you’re cooking.” between the two main levels. The slope of glass doors are balanced by the softer wall The kitchen’s main feature is a huge
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custom-made jarrah island bench. The dark wood complements the muted colour scheme used fabric|house throughout the house, and the look has been mimicked on a nearby coffee table and inbuilt making European fabric affordable shelving. “We didn’t want this house to be stark. We wanted to use wood, and we wanted that bench to BEAUTIFUL DESIGNER be a big feature,” Tania says. FABRICS FOR YOUR HOME The use of drawers instead of cupboards, and a large walk-in pantry, keep the kitchen sleek and WHOLESALE PRICES DIRECT tidy, as well as functional. TO THE PUBLIC The living area steps up into a smaller, more relaxed lounge, where the main television sits above a gas fire. Other parts of the house are warmed with heat pumps, but Tania wanted a fire in this room to generate a feeling of cosiness. Plush drapes decorate this lounge and the bedrooms, while blinds are used in the main living space. Leading off the top-floor lounge is an office and master bedroom, complete with its own huge walk-in wardrobe and en suite, also painted in ‘Quarter Tea’. Tania mixes and matches the linens, depending on the season. Downstairs, a large storage room provides maximum functionality for an active family. Opposite is a dedicated laundry room with plenty of storage. The ground level includes a third living space for the boys. Rugby shirts are framed on the walls, and the use of the murky grey-brown ‘Masala’ on some walls gives it a more underground, masculine feeling. Three bedrooms feed off a long hall. The continuation of the light-coloured decor, with plenty of built-in wardrobes, mean the boys Tania opted for sheer blinds to minimise the effects of the sun, have space to personalise their rooms, while without blocking out the view. leaving the colour palette neutral for future Fortunately, the heat pumps also provide air conditioning. occupants. While most of the house is run on the electricity grid, Tania and All the bedrooms and lounges are carpeted in a Lance have installed solar panels to heat the water. The panels synthetic stain-proof carpet, designed to be hard- contribute about $100 worth of electricity a month, a saving of NOW OPEN wearing and easy to clean. more than $1000 a year. “That’s what you have to do when you have a “It was definitely a cost-saving thing for us, especially with so AT OUR NEW family home. You can spill a glass of red wine on many people living here. It’s worked really well,” Lance says. this and it just isn’t a problem,” Lance says. Viewed from below, the house is striking. Clad in white Rockcote, LOCATION A huge split-level deck off the lower floor is the the clean lines are broken up by cedar cladding and darker panels perfect spot for outdoor dining and a spa. “We of fibreboard. “We wanted to have something a bit different to spend a lot of our time outside, especially in the break up all that white. I think it’s worked well,” Lance says. 140 Colombo Street, Beckenham summer. In the winter, we’re often in the spa.” Cedar louvres on the rear windows guarantee privacy from The most captivating feature of the house is its neighbours on the hillside above. Monday to Friday 9.30 - 5.30, 180˚ views of the city. The decks and split-level Most people with grown children would have been planning Saturday 10.00 - 5.00 outdoor living spaces make maximum use of the a smaller house, but the Austins have gone for the big picture – Phone 365 0172 hillside location. children coming home, visitors and their social life. On the top level, the huge windows take in most The result is a modern, but warm family home built to maximise www.fabrichouse.co.nz of the city, but the house’s orientation means the their lifestyle, complete with the best views of Christchurch that living spaces get hot during the summer. money can buy.
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Mark Nevin y this stage of his life, Noel Wright imagined lawns into rose beds to learn all he could before he’dhen be the sitting faithful somewhere farm dog in died, the southfew words of havestarting been a producedbusiness. to mark 100 years of Swanndri While Swanndri is known as a men’s brand, there’s also an BFrancewere with said, his although feet up. many Instead, a tear retirement was in NewNext, Zealand he bought and aa specialbare section centenary on Shands celebration Rd. ever-expanding women’s range that includes knitwear, jackets, Wremains a shed.distant The daydream farmer could for the have man used who’s sack been willHe be would held spendat this hismonth’s mornings New developingZealand National the vests and trousers. clothgrowing for a roses shroud. for nearlyInstead, 30 he years. took the Swannie off Agriculturalnursery, head Fieldays home at for Mystery a sleep Creek at 4pm, in Hamilton. and then “We’ve been developing the women’s line in response to his Noel’sback and company, laid the South good Pacific old dog Roses, down growsin that, so startYet, thean eight-hour brand is changing. Firestone Along shift at with 11.30pm. the bush In demand. We have four really nice jackets in the range this year, theabout story 200 goes. varieties of roses, which are sold shirts1984, (Original, after 11 Mosgielyears of andtyres, Ranger), Noel was Swanndri finally alsoable as well as fashion knits. These are proving really popular.” fromIt’s anurseries good story on Shandsand a true Rd, one, Hornby, too. andTo date, the the offersto make merino rose clothing, growing shirts a full-time and polos, gig. trousers, Children’s clothing and cosy woollen baby blankets complete farmerKapiti inCoast. question It’s a haslabour-intensive buried 17 sheepdogs business, in 17 vests,Competition duffle coats, for theMuckboots, discretionary baby dollarblankets has and the family range. Swanndris.with 4.8-hectare and 8ha blocks in Christchurch evenremained checked tough. Swannie But ifundies. the roses are in sight Taranaki tailor William Broome started it all in 1913 when he nurturingSwanndri row chief upon executive row of roses.Mark Nevin loves this –“They tempting were supermarket developed asshoppers a bit of awaya laugh from two made the first Swanndri, so named because of the way water yarn,“It’s one a typical of many farming he has business,” heard since Noel taking says, up his yearstheir ago,” grocery Mark lists, says. or on“We a stalldecided at the to Ellerslie introduce ran off the fabric. The business remained in the Broome family leadership“Except [animal] role with farmers the brand have ina slackJanuary period 2010. and themInternational in time for Flower Christmas Show, and as they havewill be gone this year until 1964, when it was sold to John McKendrick, who owned roseThe growers red-and-black don’t. checked bush shirt is phenomenally– sales are more well likely. – we’ve sold thousands of a clothing factory in Waitara, a coastal town north of New synonymous“The rose withis like Swanndri the Kiwi andmale: has big won feeder a time- and them.”“It’s one thing to grow the rose; it’s another Plymouth. honouredbig drinker.” place in New Zealand folklore. There thingMarc toEllis sell has it,” been says theNoel, face who, of Swanndri for that reason, during Production later moved to Timaru when Alliance purchased areNoel tales hasof this been hardy pushing all-weather wheelbarrows garment and being thehas past split year, the appearingproduction in and a series sales ofaspects irreverent of the Swanndri. The mill there closed in 2005 and production shifted passedtending from plants father since to heson; was even 12 yearsof people’s old and lives once printbusiness ads designed between to sons raise Paul the and profile Glenn. of the brand’s to China. beingworked saved for Oderings by it. Mark Nurseries. recalls being told of a man casual-wear“Ladies likerange. the pastels; men like the real However, the design side of the business is entirely almostAt 24, falling he traded to his deathtrowels from for tyres,a helicopter, taking up only a to colours,On the daylike ofyellow our interview,and red,” chiefNoel executivesays. Mark homegrown, with farm-to-factory trials under way to source beposition spared at when Firestone. the hood What of he his earned Swannie as hookeda radial- on is attiredWhite in standard one of Swanndri’s roses, such newest as ‘Iceberg’, creations, have a wool from specific New Zealand sheep stations. thetyre chopper’s builder went skids. towards the house and quarter- blue-and-whitebeen top-sellers checked for the wool-blend past 15 to 20winter years shirt. – Noel Under development for next summer is a Dri-lite range of acreProvincial section New he bought Zealand, in 1978,in particular, but Noel’s continues dream can’t“What grow we’re enough trying of to them. focus Theon now standard is making rose’s work wear, designed with the outdoor sector in mind, using towas embrace to work the in thered-and-black gardening trade.checks. Bush shirts in Swanndriheight, coupleda more everyday with its head brand. of flowers,You might makes wear it a high-performance, quick-drying fabric. that“If colourway I’d carried are on still working the biggest there [at seller, Firestone], followed I a statementbush shirt everypiece dayin the if you’regarden. on a farm, but, if Swanndri is also looking ahead to next winter. Mark says bywould’ve blue-and-black started talkingchecks. to Demand the machines. for Swanndris And they you’reWith working “low-maintenance” in the city, you being might the prefer catchword one of the long-term goal is to see the brand continue to evolve and iswould’ve strong in started the United talking Kingdom, back.” too, although the thesefor many shirts.” gardens today, roses could be innovate, while remaining true to the heritage of the red-and- colourHowever, olive is becoming preferred athere. rose grower was strictly a consideredThis focus onundesirable meeting the in the market modern appears garden. to be black bush shirt. commercialLongbeach decision. Holdings, In the the Christchurch-based 1980s, there was only payingYet the dividends, demand forwith fuss-free Swanndri grounds now being is being stocked “When we go to the Fieldays in Hamilton, we invariably meet manufacturingone man selling firm roses that in hasChristchurch, owned Swanndri according NZ toLtd bytrumped upmarket by stores a craving such for as colour, Kirkcaldie which & Stainsa rose in men and women who wear their old Swannie almost as a badge sinceNoel, 2007, and he is proudwas of to retirement uphold the age. brand’s So Noel heritage. took Wellingtonwill provide and, twice from or thiseven month, three timesleading a year,men’s of honour. It has been part of the wardrobe for a very long time Centenaryup the challenge, Check Shirts converting – selling his at front $100 and each back – fashiondepending store onBarkers. the variety, Noel says. and it’s a tradition that just keeps on going.”
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ux Dine head chef Tristin all the fresh kaffir lime leaves and all the ingredients I’m using to Anderson loves a good pull through the flavours,” Tristin says. Dcurry. In the middle of He began his career at the two Blue Jean Cuisine restaurants in winter, a quiet time for restaurants, Christchurch, before heading to Dux de Lux in 2002 and further he likes to escape to Bali and afield to Melbourne. sample the spicy foods on offer. However, the Dux lured him back and, after the devastating “I’m a spice lover. I’m always February 2011 quake, he helped set up the kitchen at looking at attacking a green curry Addington’s Dux Live. Last year, Dux Dine opened, continuing or a red curry or a laksa – nothing Dux de Lux’s aquatarian theme, with Tristin at the helm. overpowering, you still want to “Seafood is something I’m very passionate about. I’m always be able to get all those flavours craving those Bluff oysters when they’re hitting and whitebait through,” he says. when it’s there,” he says. But there’s been little time off for At home, Tristin gets the slow cooker bubbling during the Tristin in the past six months. He has been busy developing the winter months. He steams homemade dumplings and rolls sushi menu for Dux Dine in Riccarton, the phoenix that replaced Dux with his children, Anabel, 10, and Braden, 2. de Lux, knocked out of the Arts Centre by the quakes. “They’re not into their spices, which I and their Mum like. Any For Avenues, Tristin’s star dish is a massaman vegetable curry, chance, I get down to King of Snake [Victoria St] and have some with green peas and broccoli. Not only is the dish vegan, but it’s fusion Thai. I love it.” gluten-free and dairy-free, too, while retaining full flavours and freshness. “I’ve developed the balance of spices in that curry. It’s Photos Meredith Dyer Styling Ashleigh Rolston
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Ingredients (serves 4) Ingredients (serves up to 8) try with Sweet short pastry (makes 400g) 2 Tbsp fresh ginger, finely chopped Garth Gallaway's picks ... 2 Tbsp fresh garlic, finely chopped 90g unsalted butter, softened 1 sprig lemongrass, finely chopped 90g icing sugar 4 medium-sized shallots, finely chopped 1 egg, lightly beaten Domaines 1/2 red chilli, finely chopped 1 1/4 cup plain flour Schlumberger Les 3 medium-sized kaffir lime leaves, finely Princes Abbés Frangipane chopped Pinot Blanc 2011 – 125g butter 8 green cardamon pods, toasted $23.99 2 Tbsp cumin seeds, toasted 125g caster sugar 2 Tbsp coriander seeds, toasted 125g ground almonds For the quinoa fritters, I 6 Tbsp olive oil 2 eggs have chosen a wonderful 1/4 cup hot water 8-10 feijoas pinot blanc from 1 litre coconut cream mascarpone cream this notable Alsatian 50g palm sugar producer. Straw-coloured 6 Tbsp tamari soy sauce (gluten-free, Method and bone dry, the wine vegetarian replacement for fish sauce) To make the pastry: Place butter and icing sugar in has wonderful weight, 1 broccoli head an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and subtle citrus flavours and 150g button mushrooms beat slowly until just combined. a slightly oily texture, 12 baby carrots, peeled Add egg and combine. Add flour and mix for one but, best of all, it has 1 1/2 courgettes, sliced minute or until pastry starts to form a ball. Tip on to a terrific minerality. A wine 12 green beans lightly floured bench and knead into a ball. Flatten to all wine lovers should try. 400g firm tofu a disc shape. Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate for
1/2 cup rice flour at least 30 minutes or up to five days. The dough can Spy Valley salt and pepper be frozen for up to three months. mung beans, fresh Thai basil and Grease a large loose-bottom tin and dust with flour. Marlborough coriander for garnish. Pre-heat oven to 170˚C. On a floured surface, roll out Gewürtztraminer 225g of pastry to fit the tin. 2012 – $21.99 Method To make the frangipane: Cream the butter and sugar Massaman curry and off- Grind the cardamon pods with a mortar until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs, one dry gewürtztraminer are and pestle and discard the shells. Add the at a time. Fold in the ground almonds and spread a very good match. This cumin and coriander seeds and grind to a the frangipane mixture over the tart base. Peel and wine is very appealing, powder. slice the feijoas and arrange over the frangipane with a nose that is slightly In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil to mixture. Sprinkle with caster sugar. Bake for about perfumed and spicy. It is a medium temperature. Fry the garlic, 35-40 minutes until the frangipane is golden, has mouth-filling with a firm ginger, shallots, chilli, lemongrass and the risen slightly and is like sponge to touch. Serve with backbone. Tropical tastes kaffir lime leaves for 3-5 minutes. Add mascarpone cream. of melon and papaya spices and continue cooking for another dominate the palate and 3 minutes, being careful not to burn the the acidity ensures a wine spices. Add the hot water and reduce with an ongoing finish. mixture for 5 minutes. Add coconut cream, then reduce temperature and simmer for 5 minutes. Add palm sugar Catalina Sounds and soy sauce, and simmer for another 3-5 Pinot Gris 2012 minutes. Blend the mixture for a smooth – $23.99 consistency and place back in pot. Blanch the vegetables until tender, add Although dryish, this to the curry sauce, and then return to Marlborough pinot gris simmer. Cut tofu into 1.5cm cubes and roll is fresh and lively and in seasoned rice flour, then shallow fry in goes very well with the olive oil until crispy. dessert. The palate has a lemon influence, which To serve warms into typical stone- Serve with steamed rice and garnish with fruit flavours. A wine that mung beans and fresh herbs. relies on mouth feel, weight and acidity.
70 71 eat feeling the heat With days shortening and the mercury dropping, we went searching for spicy dishes to warm the core and lift spirits. Photos Doug Richardson
Peanut sauce noodles, served with Spicy pork noodles ($11) at Mum’s 24, seasonal vegetables ($13) at Spice 62 Manchester St Paragon, Bush Inn, corner of Riccarton and Waimairi roads Our waitress said we wouldn’t like kimchi (a fermented Korean vegetable dish), so we took her Thick ribbons of noodles swam in a warm, creamy advice and instead ordered spicy pork noodles, OUR peanut sauce, with tender cauliflower, broccoli and “mild” as suggested. The dish would have been too carrot sticks adding crunch and colour. The dish hot for some, but perfectly suited our taster. The PICK was crowned with coriander leaves, but it was the pork was thinly sliced and tender. More vegetables pleasing zap of chilli from a red curry paste that would have been welcome, but, overall, the dish prevailed. A satisfying, good-value lunch in a buzzy was delicious, eaten, curiously, while a Christmas song played in the background. atmosphere to beat the winter blues. Sichuan chicken salad and green mango sauce ($24) at King of Snake, 145 Victoria St Green curry with chicken ($11.50) at Vegetable biryani ($11.50) at Sema’s Thai Cuisine, Edgeware Village Himalayas, 830A Colombo St One mouthful of this dish, recommended from the Mall, 74 Edgeware Rd “designed to share” menu by our waitress, confirmed it The attentive waiter interpreted our focus on spicy was, in fact, too good to share. Julienned mango brought Packed with chicken, tender cubes of pumpkin and dishes as “we like it hot”. The vegetable biryani sweetness to the juicy chicken, a squeeze of lemon provided succulent strips of bamboo, this fragrant curry was was a fluffy pile of rice, stacked with winter veges, tang, and coriander and chilli added a peppery spiciness so tasty it left us wanting to lick the bowl. There but the flavours were dominated by a big kick, that left lips tingling. The Sichuan fried tofu, spicy coriander was plenty of curry sauce to saturate the mound of which made the raita (yoghurt sauce) all the more salad and red dragon sauce were similarly stunning. rice and the spice level was bang on. It was warm welcome. Stick to “mild” or “medium” if you’re a enough to stoke our bodies on a winter’s day, but spice wuss. True spice lovers, try “Indian hot”, but not so hot that we couldn’t grasp the full flavours. be careful what you wish for.
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given the thumbs-up by my partner. My fig and tofu-stuffed mushroom ($18) is a square of flavourless tofu sandwiched Desirable between a potato rosti and a large field mushroom, the latter smeared in a lumpy black spread so salty I cannot eat it. My Stage 10 sections vegetables are plentiful, but also over- salted. For dessert, I am intrigued by the kumara selling fast mini cakes, but too full to attempt another a mixed bag root vegetable. Instead, I order a mango gelato martini ($12), which is deliciously Build your new home in the much sought-after Pegasus sweet, but not memorable. Stage 10 and you can look forward to an incredible lifestyle. Words Kamala Hayman My partner’s affogato with Baileys ($17) is the choice of the night. While my partner Stage 10 offers lakefront sections, magnificent reserve surrounds, Photo Doug Richardson NortH finds the Baileys a step too creamy, I love breathtaking vistas and plenty of room to breathe. It’s a spectacular the whiskey undertone. environment close to the town centre yet reassuringly away from ith so much of our central city now Hungry on this chilly Saturday, I’m eager By now, we have lingered13 so long the main routes. Recreation, entertainment and everything you need is bare land, or behind barricades, to get into the entrées. Our party of four background tape of mid-’80s pop has on your doorstep and you’re just a short drive from Christchurch.
the opening of any new restaurant quickly scoffs the coriander-flecked prawn looped12 back to the start and we are treated 17 W With 51 of these 111 coveted sections already sold, time is of the near the heart is reason to celebrate. dumplings ($8), and scoops large helpings to a second round of Carly Simon’s You’re
14 essence. To build a new life and enjoy the best of all worlds secure Duo is a new restaurant within the YMCA of the olive tapenade on warm tears of pita So Vain. It’s time to leave. your Pegasus Stage 10 section now. building, facing Rolleston Ave. From the bread ($8). But the crumbed prawns ($9) are Duo is a restaurant yet to find its place. outside, it looks upmarket, with manicured deemed bland, and the chicken nibbles ($9) It offers too big a selection of overly Prices from $179,000 – $285,000 plants and twinkling fairy lights lining the more crumb than chicken. complex dishes, which promise more than 15 lake Sizes from 400m2 to 1005m2 path to the front door. We are engrossed in conversation, and they deliver. Pricing is also aimed much Sections titled by end of June 2013 11higher than its décor of mismatched carpet, But enter and any thought this is more our second bottle of Rockburn, when the 18 than a down-to-earth eatery is quickly mains are served. First up is the venison dubious furniture and utilitarian toilets 16 Call the Pegasus Sales Office on 03 920 3050 10 dispelled. Our bare table and cushion-free, osso bucco ($31), a traditional Italian (accessed through the YMCA corridors) or email [email protected] 8 café-style wooden chairs are not designed casserole served with a French potato dish, should allow. for prolonged relaxation and I glance pomme fondant, and maple carrots. The mix Grumbles aside, we have enjoyed our 9 Stage 10 For Sale pegasus-town.co.nz enviously at the booths, their softly padded is deemed “really, really nice” – the7 venison night, buoyed by excellent service. I hope bench seats already taken. tender, the potatoes creamy, the carrots Duo finds its feet – Christchurch needs it. Stage 10 SolD However, I am cheered by the speedy sweet. It proves to be the most popular of arrival of a waiter, who rattles off the our four dishes. Where:6 12 Hereford St. evening’s specials, and even more so by the The pork belly (Miss Piggy’s Tummy $31), Service: Friendly and efficient. delivery of a bottle of Rockburn pinot noir drizzled in a sweet sauce and served with a Prices: Moderate to high. 1 ($66). Delicious. generous helping of Chinese green salad, is Ambience: Basic, almost tatty.
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Cyclists enjoy grand views of Lake Hayes. Photo supplied
hreading through the Wakatipu Basin like a spun web, a new bike trail Tconnects three points of a triangle – Queenstown, Arrowtown and Gibbston. The region is all about fresh air and alpine splendour, and this latest bike trail makes the most of both. The 100-kilometre Queenstown Trail is part of Nga Haerenga – The New Zealand Cycle Trail, an outcome of the 2009 jobs summit. With 18 main trails open so far, Nga Haerenga was inspired by the Otago Central Rail Trail a decade earlier. A long- time fan of that pioneering trail, I set out from Queenstown’s Steamer Wharf ready to expand my horizons. Weaving through the Saturday market throng, I round the cobbled esplanade into Gardens Peninsula, following a lakeside path lined by trees, rocks and metal lamps. Ahead, the TSS Earnslaw is returning from its morning cruise, chimneys belching dark smoke as they have for 100 years. on the deck recall the bridge’s original Wakatipu is a glacial trough gouged out remarkable The Gardens loop joins the Frankton Trail, purpose as a dam. The plan was to dry up during the last ice age 15,000 years ago. hugging the edge of Lake Wakatipu, with the Kawarau River and expose its gold, but The distinctive rock faces of the Remarkables steps up to Frankton Rd at several points. the scheme failed when the river was back- were planed by ice, while the fertile flats and Like the Gardens section, this is a long- filled by its tributaries, the Arrow and the terraces of the Wakatipu Basin were formed riding established track that has become part of Shotover. from glacial silt. the new network. Over the bridge, the trail peels down Eventually, the trail branches inland and With a new trail offering stunning views of tall Queenstown’s original trails were to the right and follows the northern uphill. Struggling to the top, I’m greeted peaks, lakes and green fairways, Queenstown is fragmented until the Wakatipu Trails shore of the Kelvin Heights Peninsula. by the magnificent chiselled wall of the Trust was formed in partnership with the The track follows the original Frankton Remarkables. The mountains overlook becoming a Mecca for mountainbikers. Queenstown Lakes District Council and Arm walk, undulating gently through trees an Arcadian landscape of green fairways, Words and photos Wayne Martin the Department of Conservation in 2002. and tussocks, past the inevitable up-scale golden tussocks, schist walls and lush Supported by local organisations and 27 apartments. Nearing the Wakatipu Yacht pastures grazed by deer. I coast down a land owners who granted easements across Club, the track narrows and glimpses of the sealed road and park at the Jack’s Point golf their properties, the trust aimed to “create Kelvin Heights Golf Course show through clubhouse, where a cold lager awaits. a world-class trail network for walking and the trees. The award-winning building draws from cycling”. Nga Haerenga added impetus I cross the neck of the peninsula, ride its rugged southern landscape; its 100-year- and government funding for the project. In through the shade of Jardine Park and rejoin old recycled roof trusses, rough-sawn timber October, Prime Minister John Key launched the trail on the south side. The well-formed walls and bare concrete columns as honest the Queenstown segment. gravel path runs through dense bush. as an old farm shed. A deck overlooks the The Frankton Trail is wide and flat, with Morning cloud has melted, and lake and sky man-made Lake Tewa. Jack’s Point and its leafy corridors interspersed with clearings compete for the deepest blue. I rest on a lake are named after Jack Tewa, a station for watercraft; lake and mountain views on timber seat looking out towards two arms of hand hired by Queenstown founder William one side and multi-level apartments on the the lake wrapping around the mountains. It’s Rees. Jack risked his life trying to save two other. After 20 minutes, I round the head of a place for quiet reflection and a view that men on Lake Wakatipu in the winter of 1862. Frankton Arm, climb to road level and cross can only be seen from the trail. The following year, he was the first man to the Kawarau Falls Bridge. A row of winches This is a landscape carved by ice. Lake find gold in the Arrow River.
78 79 The Kawarau Gorge travel
Below: Millbrook golf resort; bridge over the Kawarau River. Right: The showpiece Edgar Bridge across the Arrow Gorge.
Just up the road is Gibbston Valley We finish with a cold beer at the The Trails Trust aimed at a high-end Wines, where 30 years ago former Gibbston Tavern just off the main road. asset, and it shows. In places, there is a journalist Alan Brady first dared to dream It looks straight out of the gold-rush era, no-expense-spared feel, although active grapes could thrive this far south. The but was built in 2011. Owners Andrew and fundraising was needed. In the end, the experts weren’t convinced, but the Central Nicky Field combined shipping containers trail does justice to the quality of the Otago sun proved the difference, its higher with boards, battens and recycled relics to landscape it serves. And, in this part of UV and longer daylight hours more than create the historic look. The pub overlooks the world, that’s saying something. offsetting the lower average temperatures. a sun-dappled glade of rusting farm Today, the region’s wines, and pinot noir in machinery, stone sheds and an old stable, Wayne Martin was hosted as a guest of particular, rank with the best in the world. now home to Remarkable Wines. the Heritage Queenstown.
A night of luxury in the beautifully After a caffeine transfusion and a short drive, ride. Joining the trail by the river, we cross refurbished Heritage Queenstown I’m ready to attack Lake Hayes. several wooden bridges before reaching refreshes the legs for the next day. The The 8km Lake Hayes circuit drapes the Southern Discoveries suspension plan is to drive east to Morven Ferry Rd around the water’s edge like a necklace, bridge, the first of many impressive and bike the Twin Rivers section of the undulating and narrowing often to a single structures on this leg. Others include the cycle trail along the Kawarau River. The track, climbing high on the west side, before William Rees underbridge and the Barfoot morning is sunny, but by the time the bike descending through cool, shady wetlands tunnel, its schist stonework typifying the is off the rack, it’s raining. I wait out the along boardwalks and bridges around the quality that sets this trail apart, down to shower, then set off. southern shore. This much-photographed the signage bollards and the retaining The trail starts between two deer fences mirror lake was cut off from Lake Wakatipu walls with their river stones and interlocked with a concrete overpass for the farmer thousands of years ago by outwash from the timbers. The showpiece is the Edgar From the cold slopes and his stock. The air is scented with Shotover River; a beautiful orphan. Bridge, its suspension cables stretching pine needles, thyme and wet gravel. The At the northern end, I climb a steep gracefully 110 metres across the Arrow track cuts high above the Kawarau River, branch trail to Speargrass Flat Rd. Soon, Gorge. The bridge is named after trust with views of powerful blue-green waters I’m gliding through the verdant perfection member Eion Edgar, a driving force and reminiscent of the Kawarau’s mighty of the five-star Millbrook golf resort, past benefactor of the trail. brother, the Clutha. chalets and haystacks, trickling streams and Officially, the trail ends at the bungy Gradually, the trail drops to follow towering 19th-century poplars. bridge across the Kawarau River, but the river. Here, the water is wide and A short ride through Bush Creek Reserve the DOC-administered Gibbston Trail silent-flowing, and the bush-clad valley takes me into the town that time forgot. continues east for another 10km. We secluding. An hour on, I reach the braided Arrowtown, which recently celebrated its push on along the southern ridge of the flats of the Shotover Delta. A short climb 150th anniversary, has the well-preserved Kawarau Gorge, stopping occasionally to takes me to the historic Shotover Bridge, soul of an 1860s gold-mining village, with its admire the craggy bluffs and turquoise to a warm Kiwi welcome. dating back to the 1860s, where I pause at colonial shop fronts, workers’ cottages and waters far below. Soon, we are in the panels telling the story of its restoration in old English trees that blaze gold in autumn. so-called Valley of Vines. The trail cuts With amazing views of the mountains and jumping, shopping or skiing, to the famous 2005. Friends Ngaire and Martin Barrett retired to through Peregrine Wines with its soaring Lake Wakatipu, our friendly Swiss-style Hotel nightlife. Or stay in and enjoy The Hillside brings visitors from all over the world. Head Brasserie or The Lobby Bar, perfect places Racing incoming rain, I leave the river the small town 18 months ago and love it. wing-shaped cellar roof, inspired by out and enjoy a range of activities from bungy to unwind after a long day on the slopes. and head along a trail near the highway The next afternoon, Martin and I head for the native falcon for which the winery is Heartland Hotel Queenstown For our latest deals visit www.heartlandhotels.co.nz/skiqueenstown to the Remarkables Park shopping centre. Gibbston on the 16km Arrow River Bridges named. 27 Stanley Street, Queenstown | Phone: 03 442 7700 or call 0800 NZ OWNED (69 69 63)
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