Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for the General Practitioner
Congratulations to Nicole and her fantail for winning our Rata competition. This week, to celebrate Wellington on a Plate, thanks to the lovely Positively Wellington Tourism, we have a $100 voucher to the General Practitioner on the corner of Willis & Boulcott to give away.
The restaurant gets its name from the building’s original purposee – it was constructed for Dr. Henry Pollen in 1902, with his family living on the top floor and surgery on the bottom. Legend (or just hearsay?) has it that not too long after that moved in a troop of ladies to take care of other needs of the body besides medicine, before eventually it was refurbished as a posh restaurant we once took my grandmother to, but I can’t remember the name of it.
So, speaking of sticking things in buns, part of Wellington on a Plate is Burger Wellington, in which over 30 Wellington restaurants and cafes are creating special burgers and you get to vote for the winner. The General Practitioner’s contribution sounds especially good:
Snuffle Truffle Swine Burger
Truffled wild pork burger with toasted ciabatta, grilled pineapple and buffalo mozzarella
$22 | Available: Lunch and dinner
In order to win this week’s prize, tell us which burger you’re most looking forward to trying, and why. Leave your comment before 5pm Tuesday August 3, and we’ll draw a winner at random.
The Waygu Wonder burger @ The Tasting Room has my vote. Way to go, Waygu!
The Tasting Room burger – sounds like a classic!
The “Bambi’s Gone Missing” Burger – the name appeals to my kind-of-sick sense of humour, and ‘Venison burger with blue cheese aioli’ sounds delicious!
The Firecracker Burger! I love spicy food.
Tower of Babylon sounded really good until Beach Babylon fucked it with the service the other day. So next best option for a pescetarian living in the city is Osteria del Toro’s Movida Burger.
If I could get out to Petone I’d definitely be eating at The Empire. Their Tunalicious burger sounds amazing.
The Wild pork burger at the GP because we only eat wild pork but are too squeamish to go hunting.
It was deffo a house of ill repute in the eighties. We used to drink at scribblers and laugh at the suits sneaking in and out. It was furthur up boulcott st then too, it got moved when they built the majestic centre
The leaning tower of seafood that is Beach Babylon’s Tower of Babylon burger.
Oh My. The Boulcott Burger Plate. Three Burgers! Yes please.
Tower of Babylon Burger – paua and mussels – yum!! Not exactly a ‘classic’ but so damn exciting I’m salivating already!
The Polly Burger – mmmmm goat cheese mmmmm
The beach babylon burger, tower of babylon, sound sooo goooood…
Polo’s Polly’s burger because its vegetarian.
Elements: “The “Bambi’s Gone Missing” Burger:
Venison burger with blue cheese aioli, spiced beetroot relish, fried egg, rocket and smoked tomato sauce on homemade burger bun”.
It sounds delish! *druel*
Definitely the !Burger me senseless”!-Should satisfy my aioli addiction!!
The Tower of Babylon.
Because I am one person but have many languages, and nothing will be withholden from me which I purpose to do…..
and I purpose to demolish said tower.
I will scatter the burger’s ingredients throughout the four(teen) corners of my puku.
I will cleanse myself in the river of Emerson’s Pilsner.
Then, as I digest, I will bathe in the promise of summers to come.
I for one can’t wait to be burgered senseless. mmmmmmm