Welly on a Plate 2016: it begins

So Wel­ling­ton on a Plate has been going for four days now, and I have three things to report back on so far. Good on me, let’s see if I can keep this pace up (I won’t be able to). The Suite Life at the Bolton Hotel Tapas and wine Dine Wel­ling­ton menu at Ster­ling […]

What to do in Wellington with a motorhome

This post is sponsored by Wil­der­ness Motorhomes We love telling people what to do. Espe­cially telling people what to do in Wel­ling­ton. That’s why we exist. So when we were offered this sponsored post we were happy to take up the chal­lenge of what to do in Wel­ling­ton if you’re an out-of-town­er vis­it­ing in a […]

The most Wellington of Wellington meals

This post is sponsored by Cuisine magazine. Thanks! Go buy a sub­scrip­tion.  We’re often full of  advice about places to go for a feed, because as Madonna said, every­one should exper­i­ence eat­ing out, but some­times some of us do like to stay at home and cook. So, hark­ing back to the time when we chal­lenged y’all […]

Eat. Drink. Power. People. Pods

Our Kris has been doing an AMAZING job with all her theatre reviews, while the rest of us slack off, so let me attempt to put that slightly more in bal­ance with one post about all the things I’ve been mean­ing to write about forever. Eat / Drink / Power / People / Pods Jano. Go […]

Webstock 2016: Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the sixth year not quite in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now – it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial […]

Karmageddonit

Any­one who refers to bur­gers as “dude food” clearly has nev­er had their uter­us scream­ing at them for meat before. Accord­ingly, I was bloody happy to be invited along to the launch of the Karmaged­don bur­ger – Karma Col­a’s col­lab­or­a­tion with Grill Meets Beer. The Karmaged­don bur­ger is made with Karma Cola braised pulled pork, […]

Tosca top notch

When I invited my friend Keith to Tosca and he told me he’d seen it before, I asked for no spoil­ers. He sent me a text say­ing “Psh. It’s an opera. There is singing. People die. From a fem­in­ist view it is prob­lem­at­ic. That’s about all there is to it”. His text was true, but also […]

Halloween Horror close to home

Wel­ling­ton-made hor­ror film The Dead Room is sure to spook audi­ences this Hal­loween. Based on a true chilling New Zea­l­and story from the 1970s, a psych­ic and two sci­ent­ists are sent in to invest­ig­ate paranor­mal activ­ity at an Otago farm­house after its ter­ri­fied fam­ily flees. Wel­ling­ton-based act­ress Laura Petersen, who plays the young psych­ic Holly […]

WOAP: Dining through the Decades

This is going to sound a bit silly, but I choose my Wel­ling­ton on a Plate events look­ing for value for money.  The silly part, obvi­ously, is that no one needs to drop over a hun­dred dol­lars a head on din­ner, but if you’re look­ing to have a degust­a­tion and matched wines, you’re going to spend […]

Our advice for Wellington on a Plate 2015

Tomor­row begins that most magic­al time of the year. The stu­pid film fest­iv­al has released my friends from its evil clutches and it’s time to eat, eat, eat. We’ve been cov­er­ing Wel­ling­ton on a Plate for a  long time now and I think we’re get­ting pretty good at know­ing what’s what. So here’s our thoughts. […]