Milk Crate

25/05/2022

That's a wrap. If you pre-ordered our digital cookbook check your inbox (and spam folder) to get your copy. Please share your creations with us, we would love to see our classics in your homes. Together we've raised over $1k for Women's Refuge.

You can still purchase a copy for a limited time, so visit milkcrate.nz to get yours.

Thanks again for all of your love and support

21/04/2022

We’re putting the finishing touches on a digital cookbook so you can make your favourites at home.

Visit milkcrate.nz to pre-order your copy and we’ll email it to you when it’s done.

$5 from each sale donated to the Women’s Refuge.

17/03/2022

It is with great sadness that we have to announce that the 24th of April will be the last day of trade for Milk Crate.

For over 16 years we have had the privilege of being part of the Ghuznee street and wider Wellington community. We are so grateful for all of the wonderful support we have had not only in the past two years but since Ben first opened the doors in 2005.

There are a multitude of reasons from rising rents and other costs, to covid and more. Despite it being a very hard decision, now feels like the right time to call it.

We cannot thank enough all the people who have made Milk Crate such a special place. The absolute legends we have had the pleasure to work with over the years. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Our amazing suppliers who stuck with us through everything and helped make our offering what it was. Love your work.

And of course to our amazing customers. Who have stuck with us through it all. We have got to see you move from challenge to challenge, through study and into work, and your children grow. It’s been such an honour to be a part of your lives.

We look forward to seeing you all over the coming weeks to celebrate and commiserate over what has been an incredible little cafe.

12/05/2020

So stoked to be a part of this conversation. Big shout out to Takeaway Throwaway and UYO for all the amazing support they have given us and others out there doing what they can.

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27/04/2020

Hey team, we are very excited to be getting up and running again at level 3. We have set up an online shop at milkcrate.nz for delivery and pick up orders that will launch tomorrow.

When picking up orders please queue up in the marked area along the front of the store.

To order a coffee we ask you to please order and pay through the online shop. We’ll make it for you when you get to the window. Contactless ordering and payment at the window is coming soon.

We encourage you to bring in your own reusable clean cups. Place it on the table in the window, step back and hold onto your lid. We’ll pour the coffee in without contact and then it’s all yours.

Check back here for updates.

17/04/2020

Hey team, with the recent announcement of what would be possible under alert level three. Milk crate will be unable to operate as you’ve known it. We are really keen to get back in the kitchen though and we have decided to start a small web shop for contactless deliveries. This will mean that we are unable to provide the full range of Milk Crate goodies, so we want to know from you what items you would most like to see delivered safely to your door. Comment below and hope to see you all soon. Big love ❤️

04/04/2020

Hey team, we’ve joined up with it’s a great site set up to support local business struggling through the lock down. Check out soscafe.nz and pick up vouchers for Milk Crate and your other favourite local spots

22/03/2020

Kia ora e hoa ma!

We are stoked to be reopening tomorrow morning, Monday, 23 March at 7:30am. We are so grateful for all the lovely messages of support over the past week.

It’s been an extraordinary time, but we've been given the all-clear and are good to go! We will be running things a little differently, though:

1. Takeaway only. We will still have all your faves on offer!

2. No Keep Cups, but we are still operating with the Again Again reusable cup system; simply drop off yours, and we will make your coffee in one of our clean cups.

3. Although we miss you greatly, please don’t come see us if you're under the weather.

We will get through this together by taking steps to keep everyone safe. Thanks again, the Milk Crate team.

19/03/2020

We are alive and well! Thank you so much for all of your support, it means so much to us. We look forward to seeing you all again when we can. Love the Milk Crate team.

15/03/2020

We at Milk Crate are taking the COVID-19 situation extremely seriously and were informed that the man with coronavirus that flew to New Zealand from Australia came into our café over the weekend.
Health officials have assured us that the risk of the virus spreading on this occasion is very low, and we’ve been given the all clear to continue trading from the Wellington Regional DHB, but we feel we have a duty of care to our staff and our community and have elected to shut and take extra precautions.

If you were in the café on Saturday between the hours of 11:00am and 11:30am and believe you may have had close and prolonged contact with the man, we strongly encourage you to phone Healthline on 0800 358 5453.

We are doing all we can to manage this complex situation proactively and ask that you be patient. Your support has kept this café going for 15 years, and we thank you for your custom and understanding.

We will reopen only when we are absolutely certain it is safe to do so and look forward to seeing you then.

15/05/2019

We had an important pump die today and need to close tomorrow to replace it. We loved said pump and will miss it.

We miss you already. See you on Friday ❤️❤️

29/01/2019

So stoked to be able to continue with Again Again after an awesome trial period.

Woo hoo - Great to have Milk Crate on Ghuznee staying in the Again Again cup lending system.

We have moved from the pilot phase to a paid commercial phase for these cafes, and it has been heartening to hear from all who we have talked to so far that not only does Again Again markedly improve the sustainability values of the cafe (and also for their customers), but it is a commercially viable solution for them too.

And that means SCALE. If we have created a system that provides both an environmental AND and commercial solution, well, look out!

Do you want to be in that game? Pop over to https://buff.ly/2U8urFy and fill in an expression of interest.