Muffin Break
Checked 15 Oct 2026
Muffin Break is a café (coffee shop) at Northlands Mall, Main North Road, Papanui, the map pin sits in Northcote, Christchurch, inside the Papanui/Northlands commercial centre. On the record it offers takeaway.
From a little Canadian shop trying to make a name for itself back in the 1980s to what you see today, Muffin Break New Zealand over the last 19 years has been passionately doing what it does best – giving people… more ↓
+64 3 352 2520 · muffinbreak.co.nz · menu → · Google reviews ↓
Northlands Mall, Main North Road, Papanui
Opening hours
No source lists its hours. If you know them, add them on OpenStreetMap →, the next bake picks them up.
Its own website lists
Read from the site itself 1 Oct 2026, Its own website.
Reviews
Getting there
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Straight-line distances from the pin, not walking routes.
Within a short walk
The nearest other cafés
The other Muffin Break doors, 5 on the roll
Also in Northcote
What the record holds
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Address | Northlands Mall, Main North Road, Papanui | Find Christchurch, 2024 |
| Kind | Cafés, Coffee shop | OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +64 3 352 2520 | OpenStreetMap |
| Website | muffinbreak.co.nz | Find Christchurch, 2024 · its own site agrees |
| Menu | muffinbreak.co.nz | Its own website |
| Social | Its own website | |
| NZBN | 9429052471063, NZ Limited Company | NZBN register |
| Registered name | TWO FAMILIES PRIVATE LIMITED | NZBN register |
| Registered since | 14 Nov 2024 | NZBN register |
| Industry | Coffee shops | NZBN register |
| Services | Takeaway | OpenStreetMap |
| Food registration | reg CCC003955/1, Template FCP, verified by CCC, expires 18 Aug 2027 | MPI food register |
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How the council’s directory described it
From a little Canadian shop trying to make a name for itself back in the 1980s to what you see today, Muffin Break New Zealand over the last 19 years has been passionately doing what it does best – giving people a place to enjoy fresh coffee, delicious food and great service with friends.
— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.
The ground it stands on
| Fact | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| District Plan zone | Town centre zone | District Plan |
| Commercial centre | Papanui/Northlands, district centre | District Plan |
Graham Condon / 1949 – 2007 / QSM / JP / Paralympian
Graham Condon plaqueThe reports nearby
64 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Roads & footpaths and Graffiti & vandalism, 49 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
The 64 reports on file
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Hazard, vehicle
Hazard, vehicle
Water General
Hazard, vehicle
Hazard, vehicle
Dumped Rubbish
Traffic Signals
Overgrown VegetationQuestions, answered briefly
A café in Northcote, Christchurch.
Northlands Mall, Main North Road, Papanui, the map pin sits in Northcote, on Main North Road. On the map →
On OpenStreetMap and in the council’s 2024 directory.
phone +64 3 352 2520, its website (Find Christchurch, 2024).
Gloria Jeans Northlands (38 m), The Coffee Club (89 m), Central Bark Cafe (117 m), every one in the city.
6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Hoyts Cinema Northlands (14 m); the Northlands Platform C bus stop is 90 m away: routes 1, 95, 107; a cycle lane passes within 77 m; nearest park: Papanui Memorial Reserve (374 m).
The record behind this
This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:
- OpenStreetMap, named premises drawn and kept current by its contributors (ODbL)
- Find Christchurch, the council’s business directory, a snapshot last touched about March 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
- Christchurch District Plan layers, zones, commercial centres and scheduled heritage items, from the council’s open data (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata, the item an OpenStreetMap mapper linked the premises to (CC0)
- Environment Canterbury’s Metro stop record, distances measured here from the pin
- Christchurch City Council’s cycleway layer, lanes, separated paths and the named Major Cycle Routes (CC BY 4.0)
- The business’s own website, read politely by chch.live for contact details the open record is missing, re-checked monthly
- New Zealand Business Number register, the public facts every NZBN entity files (legal name, status, registration date, industry), matched here by name and address
- Ministry for Primary Industries food-business register, the public Food Act registration for these premises, verified by the named agency, matched here by name and address
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); council and ECan data under CC BY 4.0; Wikidata CC0. Something wrong? Fix it on OpenStreetMap or tell us. The whole directory lives at /businesses. This page as markdown: /business/muffin-break-northcote.md.