Neiko
Chef · Titirangi, NZ
Oliver
Creative · Titirangi, NZ
Oliver and I, we like to make stuff. We use the studio as a tool to make things that we're genuinely interested in — a sandwich stall, an ice tea brand, bringing music to communities, artistic expression, software development. If it interests us and we think it's worth doing, we go and do it.
Turn creative sparks into burning fires.
Original drawings — each piece has a story behind it. Prints available to order.
At our last market we came home with more lemonade concentrate than we'd sold — really good concentrate — and it felt wrong to let it go to waste. Around the same time I'd noticed how many beautiful glass bottles move through the restaurant industry and just disappear after one use, so I started collecting them from Phia and thinking about what to put in them.
The concentrate became ice tea, the ice tea needed a bottle, and the bottle turned out to be the whole point. We brew it fresh, fill it into reclaimed 1907 glass, and when you're done you bring it back for a discount on the next one.
If you're local to Titirangi, you probably saw a piano turn up in the village one day and wondered where it came from. That was us. Oliver had a feeling the village needed another layer to it — somewhere for music to just happen on any given afternoon without anyone having to organise it. So he found one listed for free on Facebook Marketplace, we borrowed a ute, and we put it there.
We still walk past it most weekends. Someone's always sitting down to it.
It goes back to high school — sixteen, seventeen years old, everyone chipping in what they had to buy a decent piece of rump and some fingerling potatoes, cooking together for no particular reason other than it was a good way to spend an evening. I've been a chef for a few years since then, worked in some of New Zealand's better kitchens, but that same feeling of just feeding your people properly never really left.
Silly Goose properly started the day I made Josh a grilled cheese and he said I could sell one of those. I took him at his word. Our first real outing was my sister's powerlifting competition and the queue was longer than we'd planned for, so we kept going. You'll find us at the Titirangi Village Market when we're out.