Falls Retreat

31/03/2025

📣 Registrations Now Open 📣

We’re back with another Every Bite four-week programme, and registrations are officially open! If you want to waste less, save money, and make the most of your food, this is for you. It includes easy at-home actions you can take to reduce food waste.

We'll kick off on Sunday, 4 May 2025 with an incredible gathering at Falls Retreat. You’ll hear from award-winning chef Brad King, watch a live cooking demo, enjoy a low waste lunch, and explore the stunning organic gardens.

The programme is a chance to build better food habits in a fun, supportive way. Spaces are limited, so sign up now: https://events.humanitix.com/every-bite-hauraki-food-appreciation-movement-may25

31/03/2025

Today we welcomed Zespri and their Australian visitors for a specially designed 2 course lunch featuring kiwifruit 🥝, of course! The menu included a ruby red kiwifruit bruschetta and we even managed to factor it into our floral displays 🌺
You know we love using homegrown and locally grown ingredients so this was a great opportunity to showcase our incredible produce to overseas visitors and tell our NZ food story!

27/03/2025

How lucky are we to have a neighbour that brings us her amazing dahlias to use in our floral arrangements! 🌸 And another (Who also happens to be our gardener) who grows us these incredible chilli’s 🌶️ used throughout our menus and turned into sambal for our Pantry. Sure is the season for an abundance of produce and florals so be sure to join us this weekend to experience homegrown for yourself!
🍽️ Friday dinner / Saturday lunch and dinner Autumn Harvest Feast- an incredible 3 course set menu served in our beautiful barn (separate tables )
💐Sunday 30/3 - Floral Bouquet Workshop and and luncheon. Bookings essential - only a handful of spaces left
Please note NO Local Event ( casual dining with pizzas) this weekend - we are back to hosting this on the first Sunday of each month so see you on 6th April from 4pm!

25/03/2025

Have you got the latest edition of nourish? Check it out to get the recipe for Brads Cucumber & Zucchini. Pickle to use up some of your excess produce! 🔪🥒
* PLEASE NOTE that there is a typo in the magazine and the recipe should read 1kg of zucchini & cucumber ( combined) not 1kg of each 🤪
Corrected version is on the Nourish website!

23/03/2025

A handful of spots are available this Sunday for a wildflower bouquet workshop with Shontelle of Sweetpea and Jasmine. With homegrown flowers from Shontelle's land, a tour of our
organic flower & vegetable garden and incredible food - this is a wonderful day out. Get in touch to book or hop online to guarantee your spot today 🌼 🌸 🌻

22/03/2025

Join us today for The Local from 12-7.30 and enjoy our delicious wood-fired pizzas, organic garden salads and chips with housemade aioli 😍 This is our final full Sunday session as we transition to our Autumn hours meaning we will return to offering this on the first Sunday of each month starting Sunday 6th April, with our friends from.The Sauna Project rejoining us to offer a monthly dose of wellness alongside our incredible food and beautiful setting.
Mark your diaries to make sure you don’t miss out!

20/03/2025

We’re closed to the public this Saturday 22nd March as we celebrate a special couples wedding. But remember you can still get your food fix with us on Friday for dinner - we only have a few tables still available so call us or book online to secure your spot and try our incredible Autumn Feast for yourself! . It’s also our last summer season full pizza day this Sunday 23rd from 12 - 7:30. But don’t worry we will be doing our locals pizza night every first Sunday of the month so you can get your wood- fired pizza fix all year round 💛

18/03/2025

Incredible result for another of our amazing suppliers! Georgia from Gro My Goodness has been supplying us with her top quality organic produce for over a year - her Tokyo turnips and baby carrots are a favourite of ours and feature regularly on our menu alongside her award winning salad mix which tops up our home grown greens. GOLD MEDAL🥇You can find her @ Waihi Beach Saturday Farmers Market if you want to try for yourself!

GOLD MEDAL WINNER! 🏆🌿

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Gro My Goodness has won GOLD at the 2025 Outstanding Food Producer Awards for our "Oh My Goodness" Salad Mix! 🎉🥗✨

This flavour-packed fusion of tender lettuce, peashoots, mibuna, mizuna, mustards, komatsuna, and pakchoi has been a labour of love, and after just 14 months of growing this mix, I can’t believe we’ve received this incredible recognition! 💚

A huge THANK YOU to all of you who have followed and supported this journey. Your love for fresh, organic, and locally grown produce means the world. 🌱🙏

And a special thanks to Falls Retreat , The Sustainable Pantry, and Thames Organic Shop, for your support and for choosing to feature our fresh, organic produce in your kitchen and stores.

💛 WHERE TO GET OUR AWARD-WINNING MIX:
📍 Waihi Beach Saturday Farmers Market
📍 Katikati Sunday Farmers Market
📍 The Sustainable Pantry (Waihi)
📍 Thames Organic Shop (Thames)

Come and taste the GOLD for yourself! 🥇✨

13/03/2025

Join us this weekend for our Autumn Feast where our kitchen team focus on using the abundance of produce from our gardens and local suppliers to create an incredible 3 course set menu. This is garden to table dining at its finest !

10/03/2025

We are often hosting special occasions for others so it was an absolute pleasure to hold a baby shower here last week for Connie, our manager of almost 3 years who is due in a few weeks time. We shared great food, enjoyed trialling some non alcoholic G & Ts, played games and opened her prezzies together. She has been an absolute rock here and true to her name, she has lead our Front of a House team with a constant, calm hand, handling all the highs and lows that come with our industry.
Nga Mihi Connie, we will miss you but we can’t wait to add another Falls baby to the crew 😍

07/03/2025

It’s the weekend and the weather is looking fine - perfect for a refreshing rhubarb Mojito! Utilising our end of summer mint with a Slice of fresh cucumber…. Garden to table never tasted so good! What else are we offering?!
🍽️ Saturday we are serving our delicious Autumn Feast for both lunch and dinner! A carefully crafted 3 course set menu focusing on our homegrown and locally bought produce - bookings recommended.
🍕Sunday is The Local - this means delicious wood -fired pizzas, organic garden salads and chips. Super casual vibes, no bookings required
Would love to see you here ! -fired

04/03/2025

An emergency situation unfolded at The Falls Retreat on Sunday…….We ran out of our housemade lemon Cordial which also meant us having to take our Nannas Lemonade and Gin Fizz off the menu! We are pleased to report that this critical situation has now been resolved thanks to our amazing neighbours! A few texts were sent, a post on a group chat and voila, we are back in business! Honestly this community blows me away! Thanks to all those that dropped off their excess Lemons …… sustainability, community spirit and zero food waste at its finest!

03/03/2025

If you'd love to spend time with an amazing florist like Shontelle from Sweetpea and Jasmine, don't delay in booking your space on her workshop with us on Sunday 30th March.

🌼Shontelle grows her own flowers and she'll be bringing seasonal buckets of hand-picked blooms and all the materials you need to learn how to design and arrange a hand-tied bouquet.

🫖Start with morning tea and a delicious nibble, then we take you for a wander through our organic garden. We show you the flowers we plant inbetween our vegetables and herbs, and that we use for our wedding and elopement bouquets.

❤Featured in these pictures is a recent wedding with floral work by Shontelle. Such a beautiful day for Catherine and James!

02/03/2025

A staff dinner for champions! Our team are just now tucking into some hard earned Kai after a massive day of hosting and feeding lots of happy customers! It certainly was a big day with Brad running a Sourdough bread workshop, Nicki our resident gardener running her monthly organic veggie garden workshop and a 145 pizzas cooked on our wood -fired oven. Loved seeing lots of our locals here enjoying the vibe! A big shout out goes out to our amazing team for smashing it 😍

28/02/2025

Earlier this week we had the honour of hosting a
leadership retreat led by the incredibly talented masters.nicole of Integrity Soils. An event where attendees turn up with their beautiful homegrown produce as a koha for the kitchen! So this was right up our alleyway and the kitchen team created incredible lunches thanks to the abundance of produce coming out of our own organic gardens. Nicki, our amazing resident Gardner was stoked to get a fan girl photo and even got her book, “For The Love of Soil” signed.
😍

27/02/2025

So what happens this weekend at Falls Retreat?
🍽️ Friday From 5pm / Saturday from 12noon
We are serving our new set menu focusing on our Autumn Harvest.. Our kitchen have created an incredible 3 course menu using homegrown and locally sourced produce to share with you. Expect the WOW factor! You can also add optional wine pairing or try our range of amazing housemade non alcoholic sodas 😍
🥖 Sunday 2nd March - Sourdough Bread Makong workshop SOLD OUT
🥕 Sunday 2nd March - “Full Monty” Edible Gardening workshop - ONLY 4 SPACES LEFT
🍕It’s also The Local “ where we serve our woodfired pizzas, organic garden salads and chips with housemade aioli. Casual vibes so no bookings, just rock on up and order at the bar! 12-7.30pm on Sunday ( through till March 23rd) Perfect way to end your weekend!

24/02/2025

It’s the Summer that keeps on giving and this incredible weather means it’s still the perfect time to experience our luxury Glamping space. Sleep
under the stars overlooking our forest and reconnect with nature and each other whilst also experiencing our award winning food! We even supply the towels to enjoy a wander down the driveway for a dip in Owharoa Falls! Camping doesn’t get any better than this and guess what……. It’s available this weekend! ( 2 night minimum applies)

21/02/2025

Spotlight on one of awesome suppliers - Rocket Coffee ! We always knew these guys are top of their game but now they are on a list to prove it! Back in the early days, we found it difficult to find a coffee supplier as many of them said that the sales volume from our little, "off-the beaten track" Bistro would not be worthwhile for them. Then we talked to Rocket Coffee whose focus on quality rather than quantity made us the perfect match! No promises of free coffee machines, just an awesome product with a focus on sustainability and fair trade. And we are still together after 13 years 😍

Hamilton's Rocket Coffee Roasters has been ranked 62nd on the list.