This unique venue housed in an old Sydenham glass factory serves up both live music and an unbeatable plant-based bistro experience.

Set your taste buds tingling with menu items such as the famous KFT or Fricken Burger. Or to take some of the deliciousness home, you can try your best to choose from the deli’s range of awesome meat and dairy alternatives, including Roast Furkey, Plant Pastrami, Cashew Mozzarella, and so much more.

Established in August 2018 by husband-and-wife duo Flip Grater and Youssef Iskrane, Grater Goods’ kaupapa is to bring you all the pleasures of fine foods and gourmet plant-based deli items. This vegan butchery and deli aims to demonstrate what amazing things can be done with plant proteins, making delicious vegan meats, cheeses and sandwiches available to all. Flip and Youssef care deeply about reducing their impact on the earth, so everything at Grater Goods is 100% plant based and they also avoid plastics wherever possible.

Flip has been dedicated to making delicious vegan food for upwards of two decades, as well as writing about it in travel and cooking journals and her vegan cooking and parenting blog, Ew Yum. When she’s not busy cooking, Flip has pursued a successful career as a singer/songwriter, with five albums under her belt and multiple international tours.

Youssef is a Paris-born French Moroccan cheese lover and hospitality superstar, with a career split between Paris and Christchurch. He has developed an intimate knowledge and love of all things food and wine after collaborating with top chefs and winemakers over many years.

Youssef and Flip met in Paris, one of Europe’s culinary capitals, in 2012 while Flip was recording her album Pigalle. They now live in Christchurch central with their daughter Anaïs.

The name Grater Goods is a reference to Flip’s grandfather, whose family business, Grater & Sons, was a pork and beef butchery in Sunderland, England, dating back to the early 20th Century. Grater Goods is both a nod to this heritage and a subversion of it, with its plant-based menu catering to contemporary tastes and current planetary priorities.

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