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Celebrating inspiring Kiwis who harvest, grow and produce New Zealand’s Outstanding food and drink.

Meet the Outstanding Food Producer Awards 2025 Champions

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Chocolate Sablé Biscuits with Forty Thieves Crunchy Peanut Buttercream
Chocolate Sablé Biscuits with Forty Thieves Crunchy Peanut Buttercream

Crisp, buttery and melt-in-the-mouth, these slightly sweet biscuits are sandwiched together with a crunchy peanut buttercream - which we made with Outstanding medal winner, Forty Thieves Peanut Butter. Kathy’s reliable taste testers said they reminded them of our very popular peanut brownie biscuits.

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The Kutai Guy Smoked Mussel Spaghetti
The Kutai Guy Smoked Mussel Spaghetti

You’ll be truly heartened by our oodles of noodles! Cooked strings of spaghetti tossed through our local exceptional mussels - a 2025 Outstanding Food Producer Awards Silver Medal winner - accompanied by fennel, spinach and textural walnut flavoured crispy breadcrumbs.

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Spiced Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
Spiced Chocolate Hot Cross Buns

Nothing beats the aroma of baking Hot Cross Buns wafting through your home! Kathy Paterson’s Spiced Chocolate Hot Cross Buns are perfect served with Lemon Curd and are bound to become a new family favourite.

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Meet {Outstanding} Makers →

Get to know the faces behind your favourite food and drink.

2023 Champions →

Celebrating the Best of NZ’s Outstanding Food Producers.

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 Outstanding Recipes →

Recipes featuring NZ’s finest home-grown ingredients.

 Supreme Champion 2024
Mind Your Temper

 
 

Meet your {Outstanding} Maker:

THE CHATHAM ISLAND FOOD CO

 

The Chatham Island Food Company provides some of Aotearoa’s best quality internationally-acclaimed kaimoana.

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Featured {Outstanding} Makers

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MEET YOUR {OUTSTANDING} MAKER, LITTLE ‘LATO
MEET YOUR {OUTSTANDING} MAKER, LITTLE ‘LATO
Matangi
Matangi
Honest Chocolat
Honest Chocolat
There were 2 gold awards for @littlelato at the Outstanding NZ Food producers Awards. Choose between the rich Peanut Butter or the refreshing Mango Lassi - oh and both are dairy free!
Venison at its best! Mix up your dinnertime by trying award-winning venison steaks from @premiumgamemeats
Sip on 2023 Drink Champion @petesnaturalnz while doing your part for the planet! Pete’s use fresh, local natural ingredients and bottle everything in their solar-powered factory - their dedication to sustainability is next-level. They use frui
We all love things that are perfectly imperfect, right? That's why you'll love @perfectlyimperfectpizza handmade, woodfired pizza bases - some may not be perfectly round but they taste perfect! The range includes fully prepared Kids, Meat, Vegetaria
Want to spoil the vegan in your life with a treat guaranteed to be delicious? For melt-in-your-mouth chocolate bliss, it’s impossible to look past Mind Your Temper exquisite creations. Every bonbon is a miniature work of art and a flavour bomb