Another craft beer bar for Wellington

Open­ing this Fri­day is anoth­er craft beer bar called Gold­ing’s Free Dive, at 14 Leeds Street. That’s right by Pizza Pomodoro, for those of you play­ing along at home, and they’ll be mak­ing full use of their loc­a­tion. Golding’s Free Dive con­veni­ently shares the court­yard with Pomodoro Pizza, which is just as well as Pomodoro will […]

The best of Raybon Kan

The com­edy fest is on right now! And we haven’t got­ten around to organ­ising ourselves to get along to things, because day jobs are really busy right now. Sorry! So instead, we’ll go with things that are eas­ily presen­ted to us. Com­edy is a hard game,  so if you can man­age to make a liv­ing […]

Drunken conversations: Beth from Eat and Greet

Every­one who’s a drink­er knows that the best con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen when you are plied with good food and good drinks, so I’ve decided I’m going to inter­view some choice Wel­ling­to­ni­ans after we have been imbib­ing togeth­er. First on the plate is Beth from Eat and Greet which launched last year and is doing a really great […]

Purple Cake Day is this Sunday, and there’s cake

We like cake. We like high tea.  We like kids get­ting edu­ca­tion. And we like the col­our purple, Whoopi Gold­berg not with­stand­ing. So we’re def­in­itely keen on Purple Cake Day this Sunday March 10. “Cel­eb­rate Purple Cake Day with High Tea at the Coron­a­tion Café. Come along to one of our four sit­tings for a […]

On the fringes

The Fringe Fest­iv­al is hap­pen­ing from now until March 9! This is excit­ing! There are approx­im­ately six zil­lion shows hap­pen­ing, and while the ‘ista is cov­er­ing as many as it can (and thank you for your invites, pro­du­cers, we appre­ci­ate them!), we do all have day jobs and are all only human, except for Tom […]

What not to wear to the sevens

It’s that time of year when people will call us buzzkills for not enjoy­ing hav­ing our streets extra-clogged with vomit and hav­ing all of our female friends feel extra unsafe on the streets because of all the doucheca­noes who think that because they’re wear­ing a cos­tume they can har­ass with impun­ity. But we’re not buzzkills, […]

Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup time again!

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brew­er, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wed­nes­day Feb­ru­ary 13. Spot us by our Web­stock satchels,  Ins­tagram­ming […]

Signs of the time – advertising we like

So many sur­faces in Wel­ling­ton are crammed with posters try­ing to sell us some­thing, so we thought it might be nice to look at some of the advert­ising that actu­ally looks good. This week, our favour­ite piece of advert­ising are these posters from Wel­ling­ton Zoo. These abso­lutely gor­geous anim­als (there’s a red panda in the […]

Any Portlander in a storm – a night at the Rydges

Ages ago we saw an ad in the paper for The Portlander at Rydges Wel­ling­ton  in the paper, and after look­ing at pic­tures of their bur­gers, we headed along there for lunch. The lamb bur­ger was slow-cooked in duck fat, and it was deli­cious, crispy bits spill­ing out every­where. The onion rings were heav­en too, second only to […]

More Auckland vs Wellington malarky

Recently menus.co.nz put up a piece called Auck­land is the cap­it­al of cuisine – not Wel­ling­ton, and then asked a num­ber of Wel­ling­ton food blog­gers to respond. The Auck­land inter­net seems to be very short of space, as our response was edited quite heav­ily(*) des­pite stick­ing to the word lim­it (and links changed to pro­mote […]