Wonderful Wellington Lux

Today we have a guest post from Suz­anne over at Obser­va­tions. Yay guest posts! Last night I went to the fas­cin­at­ing Wel­ling­ton Lux light­ing event on the Wel­ling­ton Water­front. (Runs from 6pm to 11pm, 1 to 9 Septem­ber) This  “teas­er” event con­sists of four light­ing install­a­tions, using new and inter­act­ive tech­no­logy. The idea is to […]

WOAP: just one burger

I’m run­ning out of food-related puns. I know right, what is this I don’t even. That’s how much I’ve been eat­ing and writ­ing and writ­ing about eat­ing lately. So let’s just get right into it, shall we? Just one review for you tonight. 1. The Great Phil­adelphi­an Cheese­bur­ger at The Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er.  I’m no real­ity TV […]

WOAP overload: a plum and a duke

I love Wel­ling­ton on a Plate, espe­cially when I ignore my bank bal­ance and focus on tick­ing off as many lines as pos­sible on my spread­sheet.  I’ve got a couple more places to review still, but in the interests of actu­ally get­ting to sleep tonight, I’ll just give you two – Plum and Duke Carvell’s. If […]

WOAP: Bake Club

The first rule of Bake Club is you have to talk about Bake Club. That splits off into sub­sec­tions about using hasht­ags and Ins­tagram. The second rule of Bake Club is that I sup­pose a link might be help­ful. And the third rule is I’m going to put in a jump cut here. After the […]

More WOAP: the bland, the sublime and the curious

As I said before, I’m work­ing my way around the lunch­time Dine menus of places near my work. Here’s what I’ve got to report. 1. Vivant 2. Little Beer Quarter 3. Ti Kouka Cafe 4. Finc

Wellington on a Plate so far

Wel­ling­ton on a Plate opened on Fri­day. How’s it been for you so far? We’ve been try­ing to share people’s microreviews on Twit­ter, and of course @wellyonaplate will be even more inform­at­ive,  but I thought I’d do some prop­er writeups for you about what I’ve been eat­ing. So, in chro­no­lo­gic­al order: Dine menu at The […]

Brancott all dressed up and ready to WOW you

We’ve really enjoyed going to  the Bran­cott Estate World of Wear­ableArt Awards Show over the past couple of years, back from when the nam­ing rights spon­sor had a dif­fer­ent name. We’ve also really enjoyed wine over the past twenty years or so as well. Nat­ur­ally, some­thing that mixes the two is going to make us happy.  Bran­cott […]

A lion (and others) in winter

Right now the magno­li­as are in bloom along Roy Street in New­town, and it’s gor­geous. But of course, it’s around this time last year that it snowed, so don’t be fooled – it’s still winter. The good news though, means that Wel­ling­ton Zoo has entry for only $5 on Wed­nes­days through­out all of August. Nat­ur­ally […]

Cocktail tales in the Capital

Two cock­­­tail-related news bites for you today. Item one! Last week saw the offi­cial launch of The Black Spar­row, a beau­ti­ful space with very deli­cious food and drinks. You might be like “huh, what, where?”. We’ve already writ­ten about the bar, but that was when it was con­fus­ingly called Deluxe – it’s under the Embassy […]

Cooking class something to raw about

Urb­an Har­vest has been doing really inter­est­ing tastings/cooking classes for a while out of their Mount Vic­tor­ia shop. We went along to a Pacific Har­vest sea­weed class, and were deli­ciously sur­prised, It was a fun night as well, so I thought I’d give you a heads-up about the next class com­ing up. They’re hav­ing a […]