Hats off…

To Logan Brown (2 hats), Ortega Fish Shack, The Lar­der, Char­ley Noble and Taylors on Jack­son (1 hat each) – Logan Brown being the only non-Auck­­­land res­taur­ant to be awar­ded 2 hats in 2014 (rat­ing along­side Baduzzi and The Grill by Sean Con­nolly, and just one point below Masu and Kazuya). Well done Wel­ling­ton! Now what’s […]

Holey pancake!

Who’d’ve thought a few holes could be so use­ful. Finc are doing Yemenese pan­cakes on their break­fast and brunch menu at the moment (with poached winter fruit warmed in a ginger syr­up with thick yoghurt) – a thin spongy din­n­er-plate-sized pan­cake full of holes and great for catch­ing and mop­ping up sauces and syr­ups. And […]

Channeling your inner southern man (or woman)…

As if we aren’t fooded out at the moment with all the WOAP preps, the annu­al Mon­teith’s Wild Food Chal­lenge starts on 1 July. Yep, next week. Check out the web­site here list­ing all your loc­al out­lets and options (but have a pleth­ora of swear words ready for try­ing to nav­ig­ate eas­ily between the Wel­ling­ton […]

A 5th birthday…

The City Mar­ket (Sundays at Chaf­fers) is turn­ing 5. So this Sunday they’re run­ning a little longer than usu­al (til 2pm) and adding more enter­tain­ment and stalls (quite a long list actu­ally if you check out their Face­book page). The mar­ket still has some good old favour­ites like Le Marche French cheeses, Rachel’s Yel­low Brick Road sea­food, […]

Get your game face on.….

Wel­ling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme goes live on their web­site this Fri­day. The Grow Wel­ling­ton form­al WOAP launch party tomor­row night. Visa tick­et pre-sales 16 June. It’s nearly game on.….    

Roasty comfort

It must be the weath­er. I’ve been think­ing about roasts a lot. So here’s a round-up of the ones I could dig up around the city (there may be oth­ers, so please add to the list in the com­ments):  Mat­ter­horn – from 5.30pm until they run out (only so many por­tions). A dif­fer­ent sur­prise meat […]

Crafters brew corner

How to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear?  That was the ques­tion for the broth­ers who own the build­ing just off the corner of Vic­tor­ia and Vivi­an when their former ten­ants’ ven­ture to open a bakery/café dis­solved. So in true kiwi fash­ion, they decided they’d bet­ter jump in them­selves and do some­thing […]

Easter markets

Here are the YES’s and NO’s for the usu­al Wel­ling­ton mar­kets over East­er if you fancy a wander and inhale or imbibe: YES’s: Frank Kitts under­ground craft mar­ket on Sat­urday Pori­rua and Hutt River­side mar­kets on Sat­urday Hill Street Farm­ers mar­ket on Sat­urday The Fringe Mar­kets in Allen Street on Sat­urday Har­bourside mar­ket on Sunday […]

Sweeties for your sweetie…

As if East­er com­ing isn’t enough (I hear the cin­na­mon bun­nies at Bohemein are hop­ping out the door again), we now have more sweet deli­cious­ness on offer around the city. Firstly the new ven­ture on Feath­er­ston Street in the old Capri space – Louis Ser­geant Sweet Cou­ture.  By (you’ll nev­er guess…) Louis Ser­geant, the until-recently […]

A ginger latte, other Eva-Leeds tipples and Caffeination

Six Bar­rel Soda is a semi-reg­u­lar stop and there I recently found a ginger latte (their ginger syr­up with hot latte milk), with or without a shot of cof­fee.  You prob­ably do have to be a ginger fan, but it was rather deli­cious and autum­nal.  I also spied a new rhu­barb syr­up and then after […]