Wildflour Kitchen is a small takeaway coffee shop at 317 Main Street in Palmerston North, famous for its pies, coffee, cheese scones, sweets and welcoming atmosphere. Open on weekdays from 7.30am to 3pm, it is the kind of place locals stop at on the way to work for a coffee, shout the office from for morning tea, or visit for lunch — or something for dinner.
The shop's calling card is its family pies, made fresh daily with locally sourced ingredients and, as the team puts it, lots of love. Each pie is beautifully hand crafted and bursting with flavour, in a line-up that runs from roast chicken, steak and cheese and steak and mushroom through to peppered steak, mince and cheese and a vegetable korma. At family size, they are built to feed extra guests, to give as a gift, or to simply give everyone a night off cooking.
Beyond the counter, Wildflour runs a full catering service, delivering the same food it sells in store to meetings and events around Palmerston North. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea packages cover everything from cheese-and-herb savoury scones, club sandwiches and danishes to kransky sausages wrapped in Danish pastry, individual salad boxes and platters of brownie, caramel oaty slice and the house Wildflour slice. Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian and dairy-free options are available on request.
Whether it's a coffee on the commute, a catered boardroom lunch or a family pie for tea, Wildflour Kitchen keeps it fresh, local and friendly — proof, they say, that great things come in small packages.
Wildflour Kitchen is a small takeaway coffee shop at 317 Main Street in Palmerston North, and the team behind it will happily tell you that great things come in small packages. Famous locally for its pies, coffee, cheese scones and sweets, the shop has built its name on food made fresh daily and a genuinely welcoming atmosphere. It opens early on weekdays — 7.30am — and closes at 3pm, fitting neatly around the rhythms of the working day.
Step up to the counter and you'll find the essentials done well: a freshly made coffee for the commute, a warm cheese scone, something sweet from the cabinet. Whether you want to grab a coffee on the way to work, shout the office to morning tea, sort out lunch or pick up something for dinner, the shop's own promise is that you'll be sorted.
If one thing made Wildflour's name, it's the family pies. Made fresh daily with locally sourced ingredients and, in the shop's words, lots of love, each one is beautifully hand crafted and bursting with flavour. These aren't single-serve pub pies — they're family-sized, made to feed extra guests, to take along as a gift for someone, or to give everyone in the house a night off cooking.
The flavour line-up covers the classics: roast chicken, steak and cheese, steak and mushroom, peppered steak, straight steak, and mince and cheese, plus a vegetable korma for vegetarians. It's a simple idea executed with care — proper ingredients, proper pastry, and a size that makes dinner genuinely easy.
The weekday trade runs on routine. Doors open at 7.30am for commuters after a takeaway coffee, and the cheese scones — mentioned in the same breath as the pies whenever the shop describes itself — are baked fresh for the morning-tea crowd. Add the sweets from the cabinet and you have the full set of things Wildflour is famous for: pies, coffee, cheese scones and sweets, all in one small, friendly shop.
The same food people love in store can be ordered and delivered for meetings and events, and the catering menu reads like a greatest-hits of the cabinet. Morning tea and afternoon tea packages offer cheese-and-herb savoury scones, club sandwiches, sweet and savoury muffins, berry and custard danishes, ham and honey mustard danishes, pain au chocolat and gourmet sausage rolls with caramelised onion jam.
For lunch, the options step up: assorted in-house savouries, mini wraps, kransky sausages wrapped in Danish pastry, pizza fingers in vegetarian, smoked chicken and meat-lovers varieties, and individual salad boxes — broccoli with house mayo, creamy pesto pasta, or roast vege with balsamic dressing. Afternoon tea leans sweet, with platters of chocolate brownie, caramel oaty slice and Wildflour slice, lemon drizzle tea cakes, blackberry and almond tartlets, handmade biscuits and mini quiches.
Gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian and dairy-free options are available on request, and catering orders need to be in by 12pm for next-day delivery — with pick-up from the shop free of charge.
Wildflour Kitchen sits at 317 Main Street in Palmerston North and trades Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 3pm, closing over the weekend. Catering requests, family pie orders, wholesale enquiries and general questions all go through the shop — by phone on 06 353 6391 or by email at [email protected] — and updates appear on the shop's Facebook and Instagram pages.
It's a small shop with a clear idea of what it does well: fresh, locally sourced food made daily, pies worth building a reputation on, and a coffee and cheese scone ready before the workday starts.