An inside look at direct importing
What’s it like to directly import Mediterranean food and wine to Aotearoa? Clue: Think camels passing through the eyes of needles …
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Discovering Puglia
We've been discovering Puglia in southeast Italy through some exciting new suppliers!
The Fortunes of Portuguese Conservas
If you’ve scrolled TikTok in the past couple of years, chances are you’ve seen Portuguese conservas—gourmet canned fish—making star turns on date-night…
The ILSA Napoletana Coffeemaker
We’re wild about our new ILSA coffee maker range! The only problem is which to choose—surely it’s okay to have several? From…
Introducing Mauri Formaggi
We’ve just unpacked a shipment of the amazing Mauri Gorgonzola and Taleggio cheeses from Valsassina—renowned as the “Valley of Cheese”—in northern Italy.…
Pomegranate molasses and tahini!
We’re all stocked up again with pomegranate molasses and tahini--so if you've been waiting, now is your chance.
Container alert
Container alert: we have a couple of containers steaming into port this week, so it will be all systems go at the…
Matilde Vicenzi: Italian pastry pioneer
Behind those elegant white-and-gold packages of authentic Italian pastries lies the remarkable story of Matilde Vicenzi—a passionate baker whose legacy continues more…
Last Scarpato Panettone
Don’t miss the last of our Scarpato Panettone stock, now available at a discounted price. Artisan Venetian baker Pasticceria Scarpato creates some…
Price rise
We work hard to absorb price increases from our overseas suppliers, but with no sign of pressures easing, we have been forced…