A Ridgway St property, built in 1901 by a local saddler, has had yet another reincarnation.
Honest Kitchen is the latest business to set up in the building which has previously been home to an oyster cafe, a solicitor's office, a menswear and haberdashery shop, a Dutch cafe and tearooms, a fish and chip shop, the Hong Kong Chinese restaurant and takeaway and most recently The Flying Monkey bookshop.
Karen Sewell opened Honest Kitchen, providing food to go, on September 12. There are a few seats in the front of the premises but the concept is healthy takeaway food and pre-prepared meals to heat up at home.
"This is my passion, I love it," Sewell said.
"I thought there was a need in Whanganui for fresh food to take away. When my mum got sick and my dad didn't know how to cook at that stage, it would have been good to have something like this.