Tuatua cafe

05/04/2026

So good to see so many people down on the waterfront yesterday to witness complete his world record breaking swim a super human feat and bringing this extremely important issue (that NZ is pretty well the only country that still allows bottom trawling in its waters) to the attention of a good chunk of the population, also bringing a lot of people and good vibes to the Wellington waterfront single-handedly contributing more to the local waterfront economy then any cruise ship has done with a zillion times more positivity. Be sure to sign the petition.

13/12/2025

04/10/2025

So shameful our govt has decided not to recognise Palestine.
Despite the yuk Welly weather, so pleasing to see thousands of good people marching in solidarity with Palestine.
🇵🇸 . Pleased to help out providing .cycle mugs and some of the Kai at the Manaaki tents at the plaza .

04/09/2025

Thanks for the support Wellington City Council

After running a café on the waterfront for 17 years, Simon Edmonds knows a thing or two about hospitality. His current venture is one that still allows people to have delicious hot beverages – but with zero waste.

23/06/2025

It was Kyra’s last day today ): We have been sooo lucky having Kyra on our small team for so long Kyra started working for us while studying full time doing her fine arts degree, and still managing 4 shifts at the cafe unfazed forever since . We have also felt very privileged that Kyra continued on at the cafe since graduating last year .
Thanks Kyra for your great playlists, blackboard mug & pigeon drawings, amazing coffees, reminders about taking stuff out of the oven and opening those jars that no one else could open.

20/01/2025

Thanks for the shoutout Plastic Free Wanaka

10/01/2025

Bon voyage Polly !
Polly has been a familiar smiley face at the cafe for over a year now. Polly has a scholarship to study in Leeds . We are really excited for her . We will certainly miss her presence, smiles, dad jokes and playlist.

21/11/2024

07/10/2024

We are putting our prices up !
It’s always a bit tricky getting our prices to balance between providing value but also keeping up with rising costs.
We reckon our prices still are great value.
And also considering we pay the living wage, use only reusables for our coffee, drinks, mylks and milks, our food waste is composted, and we use locally sourced supplies, we reckon that adds extra value though unnecessary resource use.

We are also aware that times are tough and some peeps are cutting back on spending . So we are also happy for folks to pay what they can no questions asked .

18/04/2024

We like our weekly visits by who pick up our food waste. We like it that it is all picked up by bike and trailer (rather then a big stinky truck) .
The food waste is then taken to their urban regenerative farm to be composted and regenerated into rich soil to grow produce including this beautiful salad which I pick up weekly on my bicycle and trailer. Isn’t that a great circular bicycular partnership! Having food waste composted in this way rather then letting it go to landfill is one of the most effective ways that a business like our own can lower its impact on the environment.
Kaicycle have recently taken over a larger space in lyall bay, so are now scaling things up having the capacity to take on more businesses.
So if your office space or business doesn’t yet have a food waste solution get in touch with them. ♻️