Connings Kitchen is a cafe and deli at 151 McShane Road in Appleby, Tasman, inside the Connings Food Market. It is a fusion of cafe and deli, and it turns surplus and slightly off-spec produce from the Connings Market Garden into meals, so the food comes straight from the farm to the plate.
The kitchen serves coffee, snacks and meals, and there are cabinets of food to take home. The Connings family has grown produce in the Waimea Plains for more than 40 years, and their Appleby market, which opened in 2019, is stocked with the 40 to 50 crops the garden grows each year. A second Connings Food Market is in Nelson city, with a pop-up market there. The cafe describes its focus as healthy, seasonal and wholesome food.