The Merchant of Taupo

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Off the main route through Taupo in Spa Road you’ll find The Merchant of Taupo, a store that offer s a fantastic selection of gourmet foods, both local and imported, and wines.

This store is a veritable “who’s who” of delicious artisan food producers, probably some you know and other that you can take great delight in discovering. There’s simply everything from olives, oils, syrups, sauces, fresh fish, salmon, New Zealand and European cheese, preserves, relishes, pasta, rice, flour, desserts dressings, kitchenware and the gift boxes are legendary. The fresh fish truck rolls in regularly with fresh goodies such as West Coast whitebait. Tastings abound, keep your eyes and ears open for these.

There’s plenty of parking and the atmosphere in the store is warm and inviting. The Merchant has a “Kitchen” where you can bring your friends and enjoy demonstrations of food and cookware, lots of good fun and hands on activity. There’s always a fresh range of recipes, cooking tips, tricks, ideas and suggestions.

You can buy The Merchant’s products online (excepting the fresh produce), but the store is just so much fun.

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Aromatics sauces	Noel Crawford is the saucerer behind the Aromatics range of sauces. The condimen...	View
Bennetts of Mangawhai's chocolate	There aren’t many places in New Zealand, if any, which would turn down stocking ...	View
MJ's meatballs	Produced by European Gourmet, MJ’s Meatballs are spicy, gluten free and so delic...	View
European Gourmet's soups and stocks and sauces	European Gourmet was the result of Clint & Regina Toomer’s travels through Europ...	View
Heilala Vanilla's vanilla	If, like us, you are sick of the imitation essences and artificial flavours, you...	View
Kerikeri Organic Tea's tea	Kerikeri Organic Tea is certified organic and fair trade. They ship the tea dire...	View
Lavenders Green's cordials	Mary Biggs loves lemons. Growing all the ingredients for Lavenders Green lemon ...	View
Lowry Peaks's fruit pate	Like The List, Jossy and Hugo Davison believe in good food. Their business, Low...	View
Maison Therese's chutneys and relishes	Maison Therese has been selling great products since 1965 when Therese Mooren de...	View
Mandys Horseradish sauce	Mandy Steel grows her horseradish and makes her horseradish sauce in the cold cl...	View
Over the Moon Dairy's cheese	Over the Moon prides themselves on their mastery of boutique cheese making. Tuck...	View
Pacific Harvest's kelp	Pacific Harvest offers a range of award winning indigenous sea vegetable product...	View
Pasta mia's fresh pasta	On the Adriatic coast of Italy known for its obsession with great food, Angelo T...	View
Piako's gourmet yoghurt	It is a testament to Piako gourmet yoghurt that they are exporting significant q...	View
Pic's peanut butter	Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter is not lying. It's very good. And also, they hav...	View
Q Gardens's preserves	Q Gardens make an entire range of gluten free preserves, spanning chutneys, reli...	View
Shott's syrups	With a myriad of uses, the flavours of Shott's syrups are superb. It all starte...	View
St Andrews Limes preserves	St Andrews Limes harvest homegrown, Hawkes Bay limes from which they make a ran...	View
Te Horo Foods's jam	Te Horo Jams make award winning berry, plum and apricot jams along with marmalad...	View
Uncle Joe's's hazelnuts and walnuts	Gigantic walnut trees scattered across Marlborough are a landmark created by gen...	View
Attitude Foods's mustard	Was it Hemmingway who said “I drink to make other people more interesting”? The...	View
Carrello del Gelato's gelato	Travelling to Italy used to mean heading straight to a gelato bar. Now, although...	View
Wakelin House's take home meals	As a fine restaurant, Wakelin House serves you food fit for a king. They also pr...	View
Harney Fine Teas	Harney Fine Teas NZ is a specialist online provider of good teas. Rhonda bought ...	View
Sids Sauce	In New Plymouth, Paul Garvin is the mastermind behind Sids Sauce. He’s named the...	View
The Olive Estate	This is Extra Virgin olive oil grown in Waikato with its lush climate. It has th...	View
Zest icecream	This lovely artisan ice cream is crafted by James Oliver, who was trained by gel...	View

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