Suffer the little children....and the ratepayers if you live in Christchurch! For those of us needing some non-alcoholic fortification after entering the council’s $100,000,000 building in Hereford St and paying rates instalments there is The Kitchen Cafe. Up the stairs to the northern end of the building you will find a pleasant enough setting with more than sufficient accommodation for the hungry and the destitute(ratepayers) to sit and sip, nibble and nourish. Take your place in a booth or casually relax in one of the plastic cafe chairs in the sun outside – whichever you choose you will quickly recover from the ferocious heart palpitations experienced downstairs at the “Rates Payments” counter as this little cafe has a more than acceptable range of foods to offer much needed comfort.
The large Samsonite suitcase full of cash I passed over to the rates department for instalments on a number of severely earthquake damaged properties left me feeling that I was in urgent and desperate need of something much stronger than The Kitchen Cafe had to offer; however, I coped remarkably well with a strong espresso, a chicken Caesar salad and a few rays of sunshine. The coffee was potent, dark and stimulating, the Caesar fine in quality, great of quantity and more than fair of price ($9.50....can you believe it?). With handfuls of chicken chunks, liberal scatterings of bacon pieces, copious clusters of croutons, cascades of thinly sliced cos lettuce and generous shavings of cheese this was great value.
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