![]() It even had a bona fide La Marzocco coffee machine so you know you’d get a decent flat white to pair with your date scone. Sugar was rather beige when it first opened c2004, plus it had outdoor cafe tables inside, but the cafe underwent a delightfully twee makeover in 2010, with pastel hues, formica tables, postcards hanging from little wooden pegs and a large world map covering the wall. Side note: other product placements I’ve spotted during research for this story include Phoenix drinks at Lionel’s cafe and Allpress coffee at The IV. *Shortland Street’s publicist confirmed that the St Pierre’s logo was a “product placement deal” but did not provide further details on what this deal entailed. Nacho best moment, PrinceĪlso, it offers an array of baked goods, has te reo signage and St Pierre’s sushi* to boot, so it’s really catering for all appetites. Nachos that Prince spilled all over Angel in one 2019 episode, but nachos nonetheless. I was going to give the caf a lower ranking – it’s a fairly sterile queue-up-with-a-tray kind of establishment – but then I saw it did nachos. His fiancee Li Mei Chen and a pre-IV Jay Copeland took over for a while but Coltrane was eventually phased out to be replaced by the equally death-cursed but enduring IV. Norman had seen a lot of death but managed to beat a brain tumour, only to meet his demise when Tama drove their car into a pole. It was all dark and moody mid-2000s vibes, with Tama Hudson in the kitchen churning out tasty tapas, but even Tama’s shrooms couldn’t save Coltrane – or Norman – from the grim reaper’s icy grip. Coltrane (2004-2005)Ĭoltrane was a jazz bar opened by erstwhile undertaker Norman Hanson in 2004. Yes, points for being run by the excellent Desi (Kura Forrester), but there’s a juice bar attached, for Chrissake. Clockwise from top left, Jay Copeland, awkward dancing, the 2014 makeover, Kieran Mitchell being dodgyĪ garish 2014 makeover couldn’t exorcise the demons that reside in the very walls of this cursed establishment, and these days it appears to have morphed into some sort of soulless-big-hospo-group-all-day-eatery. A string of owners followed for The IV, as did a string of VERY bad shit (indecent assault, electrocution, awkward dancing, so on and so forth). To cut a long story short, he then killed his friend Morgan in a hit-and-run, framed Rachel McKenna, and died after falling off a cliff. Just across the road from the clinic, the bar-restaurant-hotel was opened by Jay Copeland (Victor Kahu’s daughter Maia Jefferies’ future civil union partner) in 2006.Īfter Jay sadly became a victim of the Ferndale Strangler the following year (brace yourself, the vibes just get worse from here on in), The IV was bought by Kieran Mitchell (played by bona fide British Coro star Adam Rickitt), who soon became involved in the kinds of dodgy dealings that made Nick’s Licks look positively innocent – including laundering a shitload of cash through The IV. The IV’s certainly got staying power, but it’s positively oozing bad vibes. Nick grabbed her out of harm’s way with seconds to spare, but that act of heroism wasn’t enough to forgive his previous transgressions – or save Nick’s Licks from the bottom spot of this ranking. “Our country didn’t get where it is today by tampering with dairy products,” Wave told Nick, to which he responded, “You wanna bet?” In 1995, Fonterra was still a twinkle in the collective eye of a handful of dairy co-operatives, but if that’s not a subversive dig at Big Milk by a prescient scriptwriter then I don’t know what is.Īnyway, the brakes on the truck failed and it rolled down the hill, careering towards the poor birthday girl whose sloppy excuse for an ice cream had slid off its cone and onto the ground as she crossed the road. Much to Waverley’s disgust, one day he served up a sloppy excuse for a cone-based treat to a young customer on her birthday. The name wasn’t the only dodgy thing about it – Nick was watering down the soft serve to make it go further. ‘Our country didn’t get where it is today by tampering with dairy products’ The year before that, he tried his hand at the Mr Whippy business, launching an ice cream truck named Nick’s Licks. Nick’s Licks (1995)īack in the 1990s, loveable drongo Nick Harrison always had some dodgy money-making scheme or other on the go – he even got busted for one by Fair Go’s Kevin Milne in a crossover episode in 1996. But which Ferndale food joint is the best of them all? Here’s our verdict, ranked from avoid-at-all-costs to book-a-table-immediately. Shortland Street, on the other hand, has had almost too many locals to count. Ĭoro has Rovers Return, Friends has Central Perk, Cheers has, well, Cheers. To celebrate Shortland Street’s 30th birthday, we’ re dedicating a whole week to the good (and not-so-good) people of Ferndale.
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