The Hapuku Kitchen Experience is an ever-changing feast, focused on using traditional cooking techniques such as fire and fermentation, which follows and celebrates the seasons. To ensure you’ll be cooking with only the freshest produce available, the menu is created the day prior, after Fiona has wandered through the garden.

Renowned for its amazing volume of seafood this class celebrates Kai Moana to the max.

Join Malcolm from Top Catch Charters for a fun packed 2-3 hour fishing trip to catch your main kai moana ingredients. After your fishing expedition, spend the afternoon learning the skillful art of preparing, smoking and cooking your own fresh catch before sitting down with a glass of local wine or beer, to enjoy your well earned feast.

Combine an experience with South Pacific Helicopters flying you over one of New Zealand’s most unique marine life canyons.

Once you have spent time viewing the wild marine life, relax and enjoy the scenic flight along the rugged coastline of Kaikōura to Hapuku Kitchen landing at the front door ready for your culinary journey.
Relax and enjoy a seasonal long lunch featuring the very best ingredients caught & foraged from the region.

Our popular one-day course will give you the opportunity to explore and learn every part of a pig, from nose to tail. You’ll view our happy pigs in their habitat, discuss how to raise them and then as they are processed for the next stage. We teach you practical knife skills and artisan as well as butchery techniques. You be able to gain a glimpse of the life on our small farm and how they live and you’ll gain fascinating insight into the journey of a pig from farm to table.

There is just something about cooking over embers where the fire and smoke embark amazing flavours to all sorts of food. This class explores how to get the best out of cooking over open fire.