Café Secrets features top chef, food writer and former café owner, Julie Le Clerc visiting some of New Zealand’s best cafes. She meets the owners and finds out how they got started, what their signature dishes are and learns the secrets behind their success. Read More...

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Cafe Secrets - Season 1, Ep 8

Cafe Secrets - Season 1, Ep 8

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Julie learns how to make Okere Falls Store's famous baked potatoes. And in return, she shares a recipe for wagyu steak sandwich with onion jam. Final.

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Meet Julie

Julie Le Clerc has had an eventful culinary career both here in New Zealand and overseas. Many years cooking in professional kitchens, running her own catering business, setting up, owning and cooking for two highly successful cafés meant Julie was able to develop her own individual style before turning her talents to writing about food.

‘My cooking is partly inspired, partly invented, but essentially based on good-quality, fresh and natural ingredients cooked well to deliver honest and vibrant tastes,’ says Julie of her cooking philosophy. Read More...

Julie's Tips

Greys Ave

Greys Ave

Bagels don’t contain any preservatives and so only last a few days stored in the fridge.

Cafe Polo

Cafe Polo

Gourmet venison pies - venison is a good choice because it’s a flavoursome, lean meat,

The Cafes

Episode 1 - Boatshed Café, Rawene

Episode 1 - Boatshed Café, Rawene

Craig and Kirsty Joiner opened the Boatshed Café 15 years ago.

Episode 2 - Gallery Nikau Cafe, Cuba St.

Episode 2 - Gallery Nikau Cafe, Cuba St.

A stone’s throw from trendy Cuba St and right next door to the Wellington City Art Gallery, you’ll find Gallery Nikau Café

Episode 3 - Little & Friday, Takapuna

Episode 3 - Little & Friday, Takapuna

Down a quiet street in Takapuna, over on Auckland’s North Shore, you’ll find “Little and Friday”- a retro chic café, with a strong local following, owned by former wedding cake decorator, Kim Evans.