Introducing Pasta d’Alba We’re delighted to announce that we are now importing pasta from a family business called Pasta d'Alba, from Alba in Piedmont, Northern Italy. I’ve spent a fair bit of time in Northern Italy over the years through my work with a chocolate company called Boella and Sorrisi based there, but interestingly I didn’t discover Pasta d’Alba there, I actually came across it in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Last summer, during my honeymoon, I found myself browsing local

Ruxstons was co-founded in 2021 by myself Gabriel Purdey, and my brother Fraser. We share the same business, but our reasons for starting it aren’t identical, I can only speak for my own reasons, and for me, it came down to two things: I wanted to bring exciting, high-quality food to people in a down-to-earth environment. I wanted to create something entirely from scratch.

After about six months of running Ruxstons in Wellington, a good friend of mine, Wendelinn Wilkins, offered us the use of a spare coffee machine of hers. She thought that offering a few takeaway coffees alongside our existing business might really help things along. As it turns out, Wendy’s instinct was spot on. What began as one table tucked into a cold corner—with a couple of loyal people nursing takeaway cups and trying to ignore the lack of heating—has grown into somethin

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