The new manager of Nelson’s Comida restaurant brings an authentic blend of Mediterranean heritage and culinary experience to the role. Aurelie Zentaoui  hails…

Sitting on the new deck at Jellyfish Restaurant with views across the wharf and down the estuary to the open…

FORD’S Restaurant is located in at the top of Trafalgar Street has had many iterations as a café or restaurant since the late 1980’s. I can’t remember what business was operating in the premises before Jane and the late Nigel Price renovated the old building and turned it into Nelson’s first coffee roastery, Pomeroy’s. The…

The building FORD’S Restaurant is located in at the top of Trafalgar Street has had many iterations as a café…

Dick Tout, Lighthouse Brewery. Nelson Mail photograph[/caption] Why is he retiring? “The body tells you eventually that you have to start listening to the creaks and groans, and I can assure you the creakiness isn’t through lack of lubrication, but when lifting a 25kg bag feels like lifting 50kgs you know it is time to…

After 50 plus years of spinning spanners, owning a retail shop and brewing beer Dick Tout has decided it is…

Hopgood’s and Co is head chef Aaron Ballantyne. Head Chef Aaron Ballantyne and Chef Patron Kevin Hopgood of Hopgood’s & Co Restaurant, Trafalgar Street, Nelson Ballantyne has worked at Hopgood’s for almost 11 years and is an important key to the restaurant maintaining a focus on consistently high-quality food, to the…

Like many business owners Kevin Hopgood relies on his staff to excel at everything they do and the person leading…

Yaza is a quirky little café in a corner of the Montgomery car park that has carved a reputation for…