welly on a plate

 Con­grat­u­la­tions to Angus who won last week’s prize. This week, to cel­e­brate Welling­ton on a Plate, thanks to the love­ly Pos­i­tive­ly Welling­ton Tourism, we have a $100 vouch­er for Rata Cafe at Zealan­dia (the bird sanc­tu­ary in Karori) to give away.

If you’re the lucky win­ner, you might want to use it to have lunch in order to get your bear­ings before a night tour of the sanc­tu­ary (the cafe is only open until 5pm, mind) or when you take advan­tage of the spe­cial win­ter rate of admis­sion to the infor­ma­tion cen­tre.

Of course, if you’re just in it for the food, we would­n’t blame you! Rata has a par­tic­u­lar­ly spec­tac­u­lar deck over­look­ing the sanc­tu­ary, and a menu (PDF) that offers up free range and organ­ic good­ness. As part of Welling­ton on a Plate, they’ve got a spe­cial deal for $25: 

Two cours­es plus a glass of Welling­ton region­al wine, and a cup of tea or cof­fee

Main: Braised beef cheeks, creamy polen­ta and broad bean puree Dessert: Warm choco­late brown­ie served with cream and win­ter com­pote
Lunch wine: Instinct Mar­t­in­bor­ough Pinot Noir

So, how do you win? Leave us a com­ment before next Tues­day 5pm telling us either what your favourite bird is, or what else you think should have a sanc­tu­ary in Welling­ton. We’ll draw a win­ner at ran­dom.

We’re hav­ing a tiny bit of an issue with an over-vig­or­ous Akismet right now, so if your com­ment does­n’t show imme­di­ate­ly, don’t pan­ic, it’s in the sys­tem and I’ll push it through short­ly. Hope­ful­ly this prob­lem will be fixed over the week­end.