Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!

Has it really been a year since Fish­head magazine launched? Appar­ently so! Con­sequently, they’d like to party with you! There’s be cock­tail spe­cials, free entry and Wel­ling­ton super­group The Eggs play­ing. Fish­head birth­day after­party Thursday March 31, 9pm-mid­night CQ Bar in the Qual­ity Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rot­ten…

A lake of laksa

As it’s get­ting colder, and we’re get­ting colds, the minds of the Wel­ling­tonista turn towards hot, spicy sat­is­fac­tion. For some of us (well, at least me), this means laksa. But where on earth in Wel­ling­ton can we find Malay­si­an food??? What’s that you say, on every second block? Okay, fine. But not all lak­sas are […]

Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm

We like our blue cheese served with honey at Pol­lux, and we like our cock­tails honey-rimmed at S&M. It’s fair to say that we here at the Wel­ling­tonista are fans of bees, no mat­ter what their polit­ic­al affil­i­ations may be. That said, every­one knows we’re a bunch of pinko lefties, so it’s only fit­ting that […]

Steak frites: does what it says on the box

If you’re after a clas­sic and hearty meal, then we heart­ily recom­mend you hoof it to Le Met­ro­pol­it­an on Cuba Street. In fact, we sug­gest you go there on Monday March 14 espe­cially when they’re hav­ing a fun­draiser for Christ­ch­urch. How about I tell you about the din­ner I had there recently in order to […]

Webstock directions: rock out, tweet up

We’re not going to both­er telling you about Web­stock because a) you should already know all about it and b) there was only one tick­et left as of this morn­ing (although there are still tick­ets to the ONYAs avail­able, so get on that. Instead, we’re going to tell you about two related events that we […]

The Owls Are Not What They Seem

You know that we’re big fans of Madame Fancy Pants. You know what we’re not fans of? Thieves! Dear MFP love­lies, Sorry to say that our big com­pet­i­tion will be can­celed as someone has stolen your prize. 🙁 If you hap­pen to know of someone acquir­ing a Deadly Ponies Mr Night Owl bag.…? If you […]

Win Craft 2.0 craftcash for this Saturday!

The amaz­ing Craft 2.0 is hap­pen­ing again this Sat­urday, and its amaz­ing founder Sue Tyler (full dis­clos­ure: paid-up mem­ber of the Wel­ling­tonista) has decided that you should get a present. Or maybe you. We’ll leave it up to the ran­dom­izer to make the ulti­mate call. On Sat­urday, 18 Decem­ber, Wel­ling­to­ni­ans who want to gift in […]

Win a Most Wanted voucher

Edit: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Com­ment #3 who the ran­dom­izer selec­ted – Laura, I will email you to get your address. In all the con­fu­sion, fun and booze at the TAWAs last week, I com­pletely for­got that we had anoth­er prize giveaway to do, a vouch­er for Most Wanted Vin­tage at 81 Aro Street. Most Wanted Vin­tage […]

Voting is closed, time to party!

Well con­grat­u­la­tions Wel­ling­to­ni­ans & wan­nabes, even with a short­er vot­ing peri­od we saw a record num­ber of votes for the fifth The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. Now that vot­ing is closed, let’s pay atten­tion to tomor­row night. OMG, what are you going to wear? Here’s what’s going to hap­pen on the night tomor­row, Decem­ber 3rd. The […]

Voting is now open in fifth annual Wellingtonista Awards

We’re exhausted from a mam­moth day of post­ing all the nom­in­a­tions (bloody good work, team!) so we just wanted to let you know that vot­ing is now open. Go read our sticky post for links to all our nom­in­a­tions, and make sure you check them out before you cast your votes. Then we’ll see you […]