Chocolate, chocolate and mama love

I have to talk most­ly about choco­late this week. What with the New Zealand choco­late fes­ti­val next week­end (Fri­day 5th to Sun­day 7th), and Amora’s choco­late buf­fet over the fol­low­ing two weeks, it’d be rude not to. Unfor­tu­nate­ly I can’t get to this year’s New Zealand choco­late fes­ti­val, but I am SO going next year.  […]

LCB, TK and Sunday Stroopwafels

LCB.  Le Cor­don Bleu.  Learned culi­nary bestow­ers. Leg­ends of cre­ativ­i­ty and bon­homie (yeah yeah enough already…). The LCB WOAP Haute Cui­sine du Ter­roir on Fri­day night was pret­ty impres­sive (not least for being near­ly five hours of imbib­ing instead of the planned three!).  Sev­en cours­es of French food matched with each an old world Bur­gundy […]

Galaktoboureko, kakapo and orange ginger jam

Oops, its already Tues­day.  Too busy at WOAP Pecha Kucha Imbibe last night! I have to start this week with lunch on Sat­ur­day at Haya café, and in par­tic­u­lar the galak­to­boureko (an expe­ri­ence for the tongue in many ways!).  A greek sweet with semoli­­na-based cus­tard in phyl­lo, often served with lemon, orange or rose.  On […]

And so it begins…

Like Joan­na, I have a list of food­ie delights to drool my way through over for the next cou­ple of weeks cour­tesy of WOAP (although not as organ­ised as that spread­sheet of hers!). Sat­ur­day com­menced the frol­ic with a Whisky Break­fast at Arthurs.  Four break­fast cours­es with four whiskys (in the food and accom­pa­ny­ing); it was […]

A boat, a beer and a duck

This week’s food­ie mus­ings take me back to Wednesday’s 2–4‑1 din­ner at the Boat Café, nib­bles and drinks at The Hop Gar­den, and a Le Canard roast duck from the Har­bour­side Mar­ket. The Boat Café har­bours (yeah, yeah groan!) fond mem­o­ries of the orig­i­nal Parade Café, a place of wor­ship for many. The food remains […]

Cake, Cronuts and Creativity

So in the first of my (intend­ed) week­ly reminder of Welling­ton food­ie gems, I’m think­ing back to din­ner at the new WBC restau­rant and bar from the Capi­tol folks (upstairs on Vic­to­ria above Tat­sushi), and Saturday’s dou­ble break­fast of cake fol­lowed by cronut (did I men­tion the slight­ly sweet tooth yet?). So, WBC.  Named for […]

Eats, rides and city living (and now earthquakes!)

This post is an intro­duc­tion since the folks at Welling­ton­ista have kind­ly invit­ed me to join their mer­ry band (and I now have an unex­pect­ed day off since the office is closed). So a lit­tle about me ….  I LOVE Welling­ton, food, events, eat­ing expe­ri­ences, movies, solo Sat­ur­day morn­ing wan­ders, soak­ing up the city vibe, […]