CHUR!COAL

Word on the street food

Where there’s smoke, there’s flavour at Mount entertainment venue Totara St, thanks to their new catering caravan.

Street eats on wheels have pulled up at Mt Maunganui’s Totara St, the Bay’s bestloved music venue. With its succulent, smoke-infused menus and on-site liquor licence, Chur!Coal BBQ & Eatery is already in high demand here, and having wheels, it can also travel to wherever else the party’s at.

Since being named Best Food Vendor after its first outing at Hamilton’s Equidays in 2018, Chur!Coal BBQ & Eatery has been dishing up globally inspired food with flair all over the place. Together with their kitchen team, owners Jay Munro and Ross Shilling have created bespoke menus for corporate events, preconcert dinners, multi-day music festivals including Womad and Splore, and more than 250 cricket fans at the Bay Oval.

The caravan’s functional interior has been built to utilise every inch of the space and deliver gourmet food as efficiently as possible. Flaky paratha

flatbreads are filled with smoked pork belly Enjoy Chur!Coal at Totara St entertainment venue or at a party near you.

TOTARA STREET, MOUNT MAUNGANUI & AT YOUR NEXT EVENT

seared over native-timber embers and finished with a vibrant slaw. Guests can slurp from bowls of Vietnamese pho soup and tuck into Mexican baked potatoes. If the occasion calls for it, opulent grazing tables can be created, complete with smoked kahawai and prawns. Work functions are an exciting new venture for the crew that see the caravan roll up to workplaces to treat staff to sticky honey BBQ chicken wings and fridges full of cold beer. “ YO U G AT H E R T H E P E O P L E , A N D W E ’ L L H E L P B R I N G T H E ‘CHUR’ TO THE PARTY!”

Totara St turns five this year. With its top-of-the-line Martin Audio sound system, it’s hosted big-name local and international acts, including L.A.B, Katchafire and Donavon Frankenreiter. The full kitchen facilities – including two giant smokers and two bar set-ups – mean the team can host everything from comedy nights and jazz festivals to record fairs and industry seminars, such as the recent Meet the Music Funders event in late March.

Chur!Coal is a delicious extension to this already awesome community offering. The meals on wheels are available to hire for gigs both on and off site. Whether you’re serving classy canapés to wedding guests or a full buffet-and-beverage spread for a birthday party, Jay says, “You gather the people, and we’ll help bring the ‘chur’ to the party!”