BEST MUSIC VENUE
Le Café 12-14 London Quay, Picton 03 573 5588 | www.lecafepicton.co.nz
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café, restaurant and music venue on Picton’s foreshore, Le Café is a popular place to go for live music, stimulating conversation and good food. Since 2000 Le Café Picton has been dedicated to offering real food, real beer and wines and real music events for real people, with a sea view to match! A gathering point for travelling musicians for two decades now, it has absorbed musical identities, tales and sounds continuously. A highlight of the gig calendar is its ‘open-ear’ jazz festival. Add to that more than 50 predominantly local wines, various beers and spirits and it’s a real recipe for success. Highly commended: Rhythm & Brown, Nelson, The Plant, Blenheim
BEST STREET CART
Nikki’s Thai
Hardy St, Nelson, next to Kiwibank | 03 573 5588
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ikki Jantira is the driving force behind Nikki’s Thai Food Cart. From Pitsanulok, Thailand, she immigrated to New Zealand in 2000 and after working at the Sealord factory for a few years, bought her food cart in 2009. Cooking is her passion and she enjoys working in her food cart outside Kiwibank during the week. Two firm favourites with her customers are chicken with her own
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special peanut sauce – made fresh every day - and Pad Thai. Catering for inner-city office and retail workers, Nikki enjoys a bit of chit chat too and is often asked for travel advice about Thailand. Highly Commended: Feast Merchants, Marlborough, Viva La Vaca, Nelson