Hands around the Basin – a protest

A guest post from Alex Braae The Basin Reserve is for many Wel­ling­to­ni­ans a spe­cial place, and for many dif­fer­ent reas­ons. The Basin is a place where memor­ies are cre­ated, and I know from exper­i­ence what an amaz­ing spot it is for kids to play. It’s part of our her­it­age, and part of the life […]

WOP: let’s hear it for the Floyd

I have clearly timed career moves badly, because in the hungry wait for Wel­ling­ton on a Plate I was unem­ployed and spent large parts of the day dream­ing about where and what I would eat, but now it’s on, I have a tem­por­ary job and it’s not in the CBD. Dis­aster! How­ever, it turned out […]

Snow in Cuba

You might not have noticed, but it’s pretty cold in Wel­ling­ton right now. In fact, let us be the very first people to tell you: it’s snow­ing in some parts. Woah! Now we have dis­pensed with the usu­al sar­casm, please enjoy this beau­ti­ful video by Ro Tier­ney of the snow in Cuba Mall. Snow on […]

WOP: Eating the other cheek

Miss Hungry & Frozen said the oth­er day “I think cheeks are the new shanks”. Read­ing vari­ous Dine menus for Wel­ling­ton on Plate, they are indeed every­where. You won’t hear a com­plaint about that from me. Instead, you get to read about how I had beef cheeks for lunch and then din­ner on Thursday. Atlanta […]

WOP: A deluge of dreadfulness at Monsoon Poon

Our mouths have been work­ing over­time this week, with all the Wel­ling­ton on a Plate action going around. Of course Tues­day had the abor­ted attempt at Lager­field and then eat­ing off the reg­u­lar menu at Fra­telli. Tonight we’ve got reviews of Mon­soon Poon, Atlanta and Bettys for you, which to sum up were DREADFUL, decent […]

Some Italian jobs

1. The Medi­ter­ranean Ware­house in New­town has under­gone some renov­a­tions tak­ing out the wall sep­ar­at­ing the pizzer­ia from the ware­house, so now there’s an exten­ded deli counter and you dine among the shelves. The price of an indi­vidu­al pizza may have gradu­ally increased $4 over the past couple’o years but now you can get a bowl of […]

Cos we ain’t not no hollaback girls

You know what sucks? Get­ting yelled at on the street (unless it’s someone yelling “Hey Wel­ling­tonista, you’re awe­some, come and have some free drinks in my bar if you like” in a non-threat­en­ing way. Please do that). So Hol­laback! wants to do some­thing about it. We’ve got your back!  Hol­laback! is an inter­na­tion­al move­ment to end […]

Where would you take an odd tourist?

We occa­sion­ally get requests from people who see us as being experts on Wel­ling­ton, and it’s true, we are. But so are you. So help us answer this guy’s ques­tion! “I am look­ing for places/locations in the Wel­ling­ton area to take a group of over­seas vis­it­ors too. I am not want­ing to go to the nor­mal […]

The power of Voodoo (who do?)

When we talked about the Rap­ture, we men­tioned Voo­doo Res­taur­ant on Man­ners Street in brief, but that really was­n’t enough. See­ing it’s got the Gra­bone treat­ment today (hurry! Only three hours left!), we do need to tell you just how damn deli­cious Voo­doo is. In the wacked out Dis­ney­land atmo­sphere of the old Har­em, Voo­doo is try­ing […]

Wellington on a delicious plate

It has been a couple of weeks now since the launch of the Visa Wel­ling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme, and we have been very remiss in not telling you about it. Your cred­it card, how­ever, will thank us, as many of the events are now sold out. The launch was held in Mojo’s roast­ing premises […]