Nori Table puts its founding ingredient right in the name: nori, the paper-thin seaweed that holds together so much of Japan's everyday eating, from rice balls to sushi rolls. In Christchurch, the business runs from two addresses, and this listing covers the City store at 208 Antigua Street, on the city fringe where Addington and Sydenham meet the central city.
The City store keeps unfussy hours — 10am to 5pm, seven days a week — making it an easy midday stop on weekdays and a reliable weekend call, with the same phone line (03 222 2244) answering throughout the week. General enquiries for the team go to [email protected], and Nori Table shares updates on Facebook and Instagram (@noritablenz).
Catering is a proper arm of the business rather than an afterthought: a dedicated catering menu is published on the website as a downloadable PDF, and a separate inbox, [email protected], is set aside specifically for catering enquiries. There is also a second Nori Table at The Tannery, shop 20, 3 Garlands Road, Woolston (03 925 9027), running the same seven-day hours, for anyone on that side of town.
Nori Table is one of those business names that does the explaining for you. Nori — the dark, paper-thin sheets of seaweed that wrap rice balls, roll sushi and add a savoury snap to snacks all over Japan — sits at the very front of the brand. For anyone who has eaten their way through even a small corner of Japanese home cooking, the name sets a clear expectation: this is food that starts from simple, umami-rich staples rather than fuss. In Christchurch, that idea has two homes, and this listing is about the city one.
Nori Table's City store sits at 208 Antigua Street, on the fringe where Addington and Sydenham run into the central city. It's a practical part of town — close enough to the centre for a lunch-break detour, and easy to reach for anyone passing through. The hours are as simple as it gets: doors open at 10am and close at 5pm, seven days a week. The same rhythm applies Monday to Friday as Saturday and Sunday, so a weekend plan and a weekday habit look exactly the same on the calendar.
Getting in touch is straightforward too. The City store has its own phone line, 03 222 2244, while general questions for the Nori Table team go to [email protected]. The business keeps a presence on Facebook and Instagram — noritable.christchurch and @noritablenz respectively — which is where news and updates tend to appear first.
Nori Table isn't only a counter you walk up to. Catering is a formal, dedicated part of the business, and the setup shows it. The website carries a catering menu of its own, published as a downloadable PDF, so anyone planning food for an office, event or gathering can read the full offer before committing to anything. And rather than funnelling catering through a general inbox, there's a separate email address — [email protected] — set aside specifically for catering enquiries.
The practical benefit of that split is worth spelling out. If you email the catering address, your brief is landing with the person who handles catering day to day, not competing with general questions. The sensible sequence for anyone organising food in Christchurch: download the catering PDF, work out numbers, timing and any requirements, then email the catering address with the details.
Christchurch hosts a second Nori Table, inside The Tannery at shop 20, 3 Garlands Road, Woolston, reachable on 03 925 9027. It keeps the same seven-day, 10am-to-5pm schedule as the city store. The two addresses sit in quite different neighbourhoods — Woolston's Tannery on one side of town, the Antigua Street city fringe on the other — so it pays to double-check which one you mean before setting off. For the purposes of this listing, the City details are the ones that matter: 208 Antigua Street, 03 222 2244, open every day of the week.
It might seem like an odd thing to hang a business on, but nori is about as everyday as Japanese food gets. It is the wrapper around a breakfast onigiri, the sheet that holds a sushi roll together, the salty ribbon cut over rice and noodles, the crisp snack sold in stacks beside the till. It carries the deep, savoury taste of umami, and it has been a fixture of Japanese pantries for centuries. A business that puts "nori" in lights is signalling an affection for those humble staples — the kind of food that works just as well grabbed on the run as it does laid out for a group.
Here are the coordinates. Nori Table City: 208 Antigua Street, Christchurch, phone 03 222 2244, open 10am to 5pm every day of the week. General email: [email protected]. Catering: [email protected], with the full catering menu downloadable as a PDF from the Nori Table website. And if you find yourself across town instead, there's a second Nori Table at The Tannery in Woolston keeping the same hours. Whether you're feeding a crowd or looking for a new midday stop on the city fringe, everything you need to plan a visit is right here.