Pepe’s Cafe Porirua

Pepe’s Cafe Porirua Join us at Pepe’s café, where every dish is a celebration of flavour and every visit feels like home
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Final day of Pepe’s tomorrow. It’s been a bittersweet week seeing all your beautiful faces and saying goodbye. Thank you...
20/12/2025

Final day of Pepe’s tomorrow. It’s been a bittersweet week seeing all your beautiful faces and saying goodbye.

Thank you 🤎🌺

YES! Final Dinner menu ON tonight! 5:30pm - 9:00pm🤎🌺
19/12/2025

YES! Final Dinner menu ON tonight! 5:30pm - 9:00pm
🤎🌺

After another huge day we’ve had to cancel our late night tonight as we have to restock for our last few days! We will d...
18/12/2025

After another huge day we’ve had to cancel our late night tonight as we have to restock for our last few days! We will definitely be open late night dinner tomorrow. We’ve really appreciated the support and goodbyes. Three more days to go 🫶🏽🤎🌺

Wow - it’s been a long time since we have had to post this but our pies are sold out for today 😍 we’re really loving the...
17/12/2025

Wow - it’s been a long time since we have had to post this but our pies are sold out for today 😍 we’re really loving the support on our final days. We’ll be cooking double time this evening to get us through the next few days 🤎🫶🏽🌺

We’re going to try and get all of the Pepe’s faves out for the last week. So ribs lunch available today 🫶🏽🤎🌺
16/12/2025

We’re going to try and get all of the Pepe’s faves out for the last week. So ribs lunch available today 🫶🏽🤎🌺

Fa’afetai Tele lava, Meitaki Ma’ata Discover Porirua for all the opportunities and support! And thank you Porirua for be...
15/12/2025

Fa’afetai Tele lava, Meitaki Ma’ata Discover Porirua for all the opportunities and support! And thank you Porirua for being the best place to call home 🏠 🤎🌺

We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of love since our announcement. Here are our hours for our final week. Apo...
15/12/2025

We are incredibly grateful for the outpouring of love since our announcement. Here are our hours for our final week. Apologies if you came up today we had already posted we are closed today but back open tomorrow for the rest of the week. Come say goodbye! 🫶🏽🤎🌺

Whānau, this is one of the hardest posts we’ve ever had to write. After a lot of thought, meetings, and tears, we have m...
13/12/2025

Whānau, this is one of the hardest posts we’ve ever had to write.

After a lot of thought, meetings, and tears, we have made the decision to close our doors. Our last day of trading will be next Sunday 21st December.

When we opened Pepe’s Café, our dream was simple: to bring something different to our community - flavours from home, made with love, quality, and pride. Even though we didn’t reach every hope and dream we had for this little shop, we know we achieved that, and for that, we are incredibly proud.

To our community and loyal customers: thank you for raising us, supporting us, and believing in our vision. Every kind message, every order, every shoutout kept us going far longer than we ever expected.

To the local businesses and supporters who encouraged us, guided us, and cheered us on - thank you. A special thank you to Porirua City Council for the opportunities you opened for us, to the Pacific Business Network for your guidance and support, and to the media outlets who blessed us with features and stories that helped share our journey.

To our family and friends: thank you for lifting us during our hardest seasons and believing in this dream from day one.

We opened as a new business right as Aotearoa entered one of the toughest economic downturns in decades. Costs kept rising while people’s budgets tightened. And like many small operators, we felt the impact of a system that doesn’t always support small business especially Māori and Pacific businesses, where access to meaningful support often feels out of reach.

Food costs rose and rose, and the only business solution was to increase prices. But that went against our heart. We opened to serve our people and to keep our food accessible, not exclusive. Maybe that makes us bad business people on paper, but raising our prices beyond what our community could afford didn’t sit right with us.

Another part of this decision comes down to what matters most: time. Between us, we have four young kids, and hospitality is a 24/7 to-do list. Somewhere along the way, we realised the currency we were losing, the one we can never earn back, was time with our children, our families, and the people who matter most. Money comes and goes, but time with them is what sits in our hearts.

To our staff: you are the backbone of Pepe’s Café. To those with us from the beginning: Hala, Daph, Maamae, Gabby, Tino and Lise, thank you for building this place with us. To those who stood with us in the end: Hannah, Mike, Eden, Micah, Dani, Kiani,Daph, Lagi and Fiona, thank you for carrying us to the finish line. We are truly grateful for you all. Nothing would have been possible without you all 🤎

This isn’t the ending we hoped for, but it is an ending filled with pride. We created something beautiful, fed our people, connected our community, and brought a little taste of home to Porirua. And maybe one day, in another form, another place, another season, we might appear again.

For now… Toe feiloa’i. See you again sometime.

With all our love,
Pepe’s Café

Deal for the rest of the month at Pepe’s 🫶🏽🤎🌺
09/12/2025

Deal for the rest of the month at Pepe’s 🫶🏽🤎🌺

Our food truck will be here tomorrow fam! Come celebrate the opening of ‘Our Whare Our Fale’ Homes tomorrow Tuesday 5pm ...
08/12/2025

Our food truck will be here tomorrow fam! Come celebrate the opening of ‘Our Whare Our Fale’ Homes tomorrow

Tuesday 5pm - 9pm at Castor Crescent 🤝🏾🤎🌺

Yes our shop is OPEN today! Our team are cooking up our RIBS lunch today and we have chopsuey, Paua loaded fries and all...
05/12/2025

Yes our shop is OPEN today! Our team are cooking up our RIBS lunch today and we have chopsuey, Paua loaded fries and all the goodies 🤝🏾🤎🌺

KĀPITI FOOD FAIR MENU & GIVEAWAY!We’ve got TWO tickets to give away to Kāpiti Food Fair tomorrow! - Comment who you woul...
04/12/2025

KĀPITI FOOD FAIR MENU & GIVEAWAY!

We’ve got TWO tickets to give away to Kāpiti Food Fair tomorrow!

- Comment who you would like to bring with you to
- Must be following both &

Winners drawn 5pm today!

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10 Broken Hill Road, Kenepuru
Porirua
5022

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+642102603320

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