Mr Grind Espresso Weekly Magazine

27/05/2026

27/05/2026

Matakana Kings Birthday Sunday Market ❤️
Our last market for the season! Come and celebrate Kings Bday Weekend with us at the Matakana Sunday Market.

🕣 Sunday, 31 May from 9am - 2pm
📍33 Omaha Flats Road, Matakana
🐶 Dog friendly on a lead
🅿️ Lots of on-site free parking

Wander the stalls under the trees and enjoy all of the incredible food vendors 🌳

The perfect Sunday in Matakana looks like this...
🍋🥬 Locally grown and made goods
☕️🥐 Coffee & treats
🍕🍓 Gourmet food trucks for breakfast or lunch
🌿🏡 Plants & beautiful homewares
👗👢Clothing & crafts
🏰 🏎️ Bouncy castles & electric go-karts
🐴 🚂 Pony rides & a mini train
🎶🫶 Facepainting & lots more

Future Sunday Markets 🌞
Sunday, 31 May (Kings Bday)
Sunday, 25 October (Labour Weekend)
Sunday, 29 November
Sunday, 13 December
Sunday, 20 December (Christmas Market)

will be open from 9am - 5pm 🏎️
Reserve your race here: www.evoltracing.co.nz

will be open from 10am - 5pm 🥷
Book online here: www.actionninjaworld.co.nz

27/05/2026

26/05/2026

Bin Inn have moved !!

📦 We’re Moving! 📦

Exciting things are happening at Warkworth Bin Inn — we’re relocating to our new home at 8A Mill Lane, Warkworth!

To allow us time to move the shop and set everything up, we will be CLOSED on:

📅 Friday 22nd May
📅 Saturday 23rd May

We appreciate your patience and understanding during the move and can’t wait to welcome you into our new location on Monday 25th May!

Thank you for continuing to support local 💚

26/05/2026

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26/05/2026

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23/04/2026

Mobile Beauty

Hi I'm Sally and I am a trained Beauty Therapist.

I am a local to Matakana and have been here for 8 years. Before covid I was offering a mobile anti-aging facial treatment. I treated clients in Omaha and Matakana and then when covid hit I was unable to carry on when everything came to a halt.

I am happy to be back to offer my natural alternative to injectables or surgery that targets the whole face and decollate in one treatment.

Packages available for special occasions or just to boost your confidence and feel fab again.

DM me on Facebook for more details and a quote
Or email: [email protected]

Mobile services available in Matakana, Omaha and surrounding areas. Fuel charge may apply.

08/04/2026

08/04/2026

Grab your besties and join us for a relaxed afternoon of makeup, laughs, and learning!
Taught by moi, Evana, who you may know as your local Personal Trainer/Fitness Instructor, but I am also an Award Winning, Qualified Makeup artist, with 25 years of experience and Winner of the Max Factor Makeup Artist Search’, teaching individuals and groups makeup application both NZ Nationwide and Internationally.

This isn’t your typical “sit and watch” class.. it’s hands-on, fun, and packed with pro tips; teaching you a step by step system you’ll actually use to create a natural day look and then transform into a wearable evening glamour look.

You’ll walk away with new skills, more confidence, and maybe a few new girlfriends too.
Optional to stay for a cheeky wine after!

Please bring ALL the makeup you have; all those bits and pieces thrown to the back of your bathroom drawers, and I’ll teach you how to use it!
I will have a small makeup kit you can dive into if needed.

Please note.. this is NOT a hard sales type event; I won’t have ANY products for sale and I don’t work for or have any affiliation with a beauty brand, so I will give my recommendations based on my knowledge and experience.

Cost is $99 per person. Includes refreshments.
(Nibbles and glass of wine (you can also b.y.o).
Limited to 8x seats.

Let’s have a great time ladies!
Feel free to message me for any questions (email: [email protected] or txt: 021961529)

25/03/2026

Matakana Easter Sunday Market 🐰
Come and meet the Easter bunny himself and hunt for his chocolate eggs around the market 💛🐣

🕣 Easter Sunday, 5 April from 9am - 2pm
📍33 Omaha Flats Road, Matakana
🐶 Dog friendly on a lead

Wander the stalls under the trees and enjoy all of the incredible food vendors 🌳

The perfect Sunday in Matakana looks like this...
🍋🥬 Locally grown and made goods
☕️🥐 Coffee & treats
🍕🍓 Gourmet food trucks for breakfast or lunch
🌿🏡 Plants & beautiful homewares
👗👢Clothing & crafts
🏰 🏎️ Bouncy castles & electric go-karts
🐴 🚂 Pony rides & a mini train
🎶🫶 Facepainting & lots more

Future Sunday Markets 🌞
Sunday, 5 April (Easter Sunday)
Sunday, 26 April (Anzac Weekend)
Sunday, 31 May (Kings Bday)

16/03/2026

| Several Gull petrol stations have run dry for the second time in three days, as motorists worry about rising prices and supplies.

Find out more below 🔗

11/01/2026

I love all these recipes.

There’s certain ingredients I would swap out or take out personally.

Just because I know what works well for my body and what doesn’t.

I would only do the cheese recipes with buffalo cheese as it doesn’t have the same chemical that affects thyroid as cows, sheep or goats cheese.

Also remember to check with the cheese maker which rennets they use these days as some mainstream cheeses are now using GMOd versions which may be detrimental to our gut health.

Old school independent cheese makers are mostly the best bet.

It’s always best to choose local independent businesses to support anyway.

Keep watching this year for some of my delicious recipes and alternatives all the yummy food we all love.

Happy cooking !!

Spinach Garlic Meatballs Stuffed with Mozzarella

Ingredients:

1 lb ground beef (or half beef, )
1 cup fresh spinach, finely chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 large egg
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

01/11/2025

01/11/2025

After a few weeks of surviving the rain and trying to get our tattered reputation back in the Mahurangi we just received news of a 1.2 million litre sewage overflow from the brand new Lucy Moore pump station in Warkworth. Due to a power surge yesterday at 2.30pm. It wasn't found out until 8am this morning BECAUSE the alarms didn't work so Watercare were unaware. There's a stormwater catchment pond which bore the brunt of it but it's estimated at least 600,000 litres went into the river and now winding its way down to our harbour and oysters. This has led MPI to closing us for 28 days pending test results in the coming weeks. This was a dry weather event, not wet weather and shows huge incompetence by Watercare. They're currently sucking the pond but the damage has been done to the environment and our livelihoods again. So we are off to Kerikeri tomorrow to Joe 90s farm at Shadow Farms Oysters who will be providing oysters for us, ironically just a few hours after i did a post about his farms.

It's terrible to have this happen as we've been trying hard to get our business back up and running, that's the thing with Watercare...you never know just when you're going to have another spill event, even in dry weather...it's like an axe always hovering above your head. It brings a depth of sadness and pressure that always makes you feel wobbly but hey...they sympathize.