A bunch of reasons to get outdoors

Look at that weath­er. Just LOOK AT IT. Woah! We’re going to assume from all the cars parked in Thorndon that you’re already going to Garden Magic events in the dell as part of  Sum­mer City,but here are some oth­er things you might wanna con­sider: Pos­it­ively Pasi­fika: The win­ner of New Zea­l­and Idol is going, […]

Open for the holidays?

As a town of pub­lic ser­vants, it seems like much of Wel­ling­ton shuts down for a month from Christ­mas until Anniversary Day. People deserve hol­i­days, sure, but if they have the mis­for­tune of being back at work in the sum­mer, they gotta be able to get cof­fee, right? We’re com­pil­ing a list of bar/cafe/restaurant hol­i­days […]

Coffee for John Key and America’s Cup fans

Tonight we went to the open­ing of the Nespresso “boutique” on Lamb­ton Quay, because frankly, we’d go to the open­ing of envel­opes if they involved Louis Roeder­er cham­pagne(1) (although a num­ber of people we know turned down the invit­a­tion, sent us links to a Buzzfeed art­icle about dis­pos­able pods and then com­mis­sioned haikus) and it was […]

To be Pacific, it’s Beer Expo time again!

Get­ting to try lots of beer in a nice warm space that’s not a con­crete tun­nel sounds like a bloody good idea, which is why I’m look­ing for­ward to the Pacific Beer Expo which will be on Sunday Octo­ber 27 at the St James Theatre. In typ­ic­al fash­ion for organ­iser Dom from Hashigo Zake, he […]

Eat, greet and learn how to cook

You know from our drunk­en con­ver­sa­tion that we love Beth of Eat & Greet Blog, and we have writ­ten many times about our love for La Boca Loca too, so when Beth invited me along to one of the Eat&Greet cook­ing classes, this time taught by Will from La Boca, it was an instant yes, even […]

Candidates: Rob Goulden for Mayor and Eastern Ward

We’ve provided a set of ques­tions for the may­or­al and coun­cil­lor can­did­ates to answer. First 25 words to an answer get pos­ted. Check our 2013 Elec­tion cov­er­age for all responses as they come in. When we con­tac­ted can­did­ates with our ques­tions, we asked them to email a spe­cif­ic email address that all the ‘ista could access so that […]

Our food bag(s)

There was more than the usu­al grumbling on Twit­ter this week when the Wel­ling­tonista (slash some of the indi­vidu­als con­tained with­in) tweeted about the food bags they received from My Food Bag. Here is the thing: in order to be able to review some­thing, we have to see it/hear it/taste it/use it. So yes of […]

Everything you need to know about our local body elections coverage

It’s fant­ast­ic that we’re get­ting so many answers to the ques­tions we sent out to can­did­ates, but we were flood­ing our homepage with them, so we’re now tidy­ing responses away under­neath the Elec­tions 2013 cat­egory. You can also check out responses by area, assum­ing the can­did­ates actu­ally men­tioned where they were run­ning, AND there’s a […]

Wellington on the other side of the world

We all know that Wel­ling­ton is the centre of the uni­verse, but did you know there’s a Wel­ling­ton that’s the cen­ter of the uni­verse as well? Not so long ago, we got an email from Rick of Walk about Wel­ling­ton. Yup, that’s right, there’s a Wel­ling­ton in Flor­ida, USA as well. We answered some ques­tions about […]

WOAP: what I’ve dined on so far

It’s been a week of eat­ing, and I tell you, I’ve def­in­itely got the meat sweats. I do it for you, gentle read­er. Here’s some advice about what you should and should­n’t be eat­ing over the next week. The bur­ger at The Gen­er­al Prac­tic­tion­er (We already reviewed Par­rot­dog + La Boca Loca. Based on that, […]