Biltong and Braai Warkworth 

Meat lovers, particularly those who like barbecue, braai and low or slow smoked meat, will welcome the opening of Biltong and Braai Warkworth at The Grange.

For the uninitiated, braai is a South African barbecue method that involves grilling meat over hot coals.

Partners in the shop are Conrad Muller and Jannie Cornelesen.

Conrad says although the Warkworth shop will stock South African products, it isn’t exclusively a South African shop. There will be a wide range of fresh and frozen meats, boerewors, biltong, spices and barbecue accessories.

“We sell anything to do with barbecue – steak, ribs, chicken, pork rashers – and spices and meat rubs,” he says.

He makes four different wors, the traditional long South African sausage that is coiled into a round – the classic boerewors, kaas wors (cheese), cheese and jalapeno wors and sosatie wors – as well as two different biltong flavours, plus cabanossi and droewors.

The Warkworth shop follows the successful opening of a shop in Orewa last year.

“With lots of our customers living up north, it made sense to expand to this new location. Our plan is to continue to grow and open more shops, but to always be small enough to pay attention to our customers’ needs.

“Although there will always be concerns about opening a new business during a pandemic, life must go on.”

All the dried products in stock and sausages are freshly made in the Biltong and Braai store in Orewa. In response to customer feedback, the range has doubled.

Conrad says many of the recipes have been developed through generations of trial and error.

“It all really started as a hobby making sausages and snacks for myself, family and friends and has just blossomed from there.”