{"id":397717,"date":"2026-04-25T23:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:32:33","slug":"waimate-cafe-destroyed-by-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/397717\/","title":{"rendered":"Waimate cafe destroyed by fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nosh_waimate.png\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Nosh Roadside Gourmet cafe, near Waimate. File photo: Google Maps\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nosh Roadside Gourmet cafe, near Waimate. File photo: Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>A popular cafe at the turnoff to Waimate has been destroyed by fire overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stuff is reporting Fire and Emergency crews were notified of the blaze at Nosh Roadside Gourmet cafe at about 1am Sunday morning, where they found the building well ablaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cafe, which site on State Highway 1, become known as a &#8220;driver reviver&#8221; stop, offering free instant coffee to counter fatigue and help keep drivers safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters remained on the scene Sunday morning, dampening down hotspots.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nosh Roadside Gourmet cafe, near Waimate. File photo: Google Maps A popular cafe at the turnoff to Waimate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-397717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}