But is it totally empty or totally not full?New York has the Man­hat­tan, and Met­ro­pol­is has the Met­ro­pol­it­an, but what is Wel­ling­ton’s sig­na­ture drink? In order to answer that ques­tion, we here at the Wel­ling­tonista Towers have decided to launch the search for the per­fect Wel­ling­tonista. What’s in the drink, you ask? Well, that’s up to you. Yes, that’s right, it’s our very first com­pet­i­tion!

What we want from you is the recipe for a Wel­ling­tonista. The drink must a) be tasty and b) rep­res­ent our fair city. Here’s a few sug­ges­tions of pos­sible drink ele­ments that we came up with to get you star­ted:

  • Gar­nish the drink with an inside-out cock­tail umbrella in a trib­ute to the wind, or two spark­lers to rep­res­ent the sparks from trol­ley bus wires
  • Use Black Sam­buca because every­one in Wel­ling­ton wears black
  • Honey would be a good way of sym­bol­ising the Bee­hive

You get the gen­er­al idea, and if you don’t, please feel free to sleep with your favour­ite bar­tender (we want a report back on that) so that they’ll cre­ate your drink for you.

Get your entries in (via the com­ments sec­tion) by Fri­day, so that we can try them over the week­end and report back with the win­ning ver­dict on Monday. Lovely!