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Trained chef Kim Scott has returned to the kitchen professionally with her recent purchase of Quince Café in Elizabeth Street, Warkworth.
Kim trained at AUT and worked at a number of Auckland establishments, including Porterhouse Blue and Oceanz. The family has lived in Warkworth for 20 years and ran Café Sandspit in 2007.
More recently, Kim has been working with husband Dan at their panelbeating shop in Orewa, but has always kept a hand in the hospitality industry.
“Purchasing Quince is about returning to work that I feel passionate about,” she says. “Everything about food and customer service interests me, and I am particularly passionate about baking.”
The café has been refurbished and the menu redesigned.
“Fresh food, freshly prepared on site is our focus and I’m keen to keep it interesting by regularly changing the cabinet food choice. I’m also using locally-sourced product where possible and lots of homemade relishes.
“Pinterest is a great source of recipe ideas which I like to tweak to come up with something a little different.”
The café, which can seat up to 50, offers an all-day a la carte menu, and a range of fresh salads such as orzo and artichoke, bean and broccoli and roast veges with quinoa. Kim says the blended healthy smoothies and breakfast parfaits are proving particularly popular, as well as the pulled pork sliders for lunch.
The café is expected to be licensed soon and will offer tempting vineyard-styled platters for groups to share.
Fully catered children’s birthday parties in the cafe, as well as “high tea” options for teens, are available, along with specialty occasion cakes.
Kim is well-known in the area for her involvement over the last five years with the Matakana School Gala. She currently chairs Sandspit’s Emergency Response Group.
