À la carless — The progressive dinner by e‑bike

Welling­ton on a Plate is near­ing it’s end for 2016 but there’s still a good week­end’s worth of time to get out and about and try the things you’ve been mean­ing to, but haven’t got around to yet. I was lucky enough to be able to do that on an elec­tric bicy­cle and it’s one […]

The Hour/Week of Beer is Upon Us

Beer­vana kicks off on Fri­day with four ses­sions over two days and there’s a LOT of beer relat­ed activ­i­ties on before then. The Road to Beer­vana began on Sun­day and there are events tak­ing place in bars all over the city and even fur­ther afield in Auck­land and Christchurch. I’m not going to attempt to tell […]

The Cuban Brothers are ready for Cuba St but is it ready for them‽

On Fri­day, 5 Feb­ru­ary San Fran on Cuba St is being swept up in an “unstop­pable, infec­tious force of nature” when The Cuban Broth­ers take the stage in Welling­ton for the first time in five years. Com­bin­ing “sexy, soul­ful music with jaw-drop­ping b‑boy action and riotous com­e­dy” The Cuban Broth­ers are born enter­tain­ers, who will have you […]

You’re Go(at)ing Straight To HELL

Goat isn’t a com­mon menu option here in New Zealand, per­haps some­times in cur­ry and almost cer­tain­ly nev­er before seen atop bread sur­round­ed by crum­bled tor­tillas and lime wedges. But that is now what you can find at HELL Piz­za. The good peo­ple at La Boca Loca, the ones that are a Con­scious Con­sumers Busi­ness […]

Their wings have not been clipped…

Last week I encour­aged Welling­to­ni­ans to get out and sup­port the Phoenix as we attempt to #SaveTheNix Plen­ty of peo­ple turned up to the sta­di­um to sup­port the team, 13,654 in fact! That’s over dou­ble what the Phoenix have had at their last few home games! So: THANK YOU! It was a fan­tas­tic evening of foot­ball […]

The Wellington Phoenix are trying to avoid bursting into flames.

In Greek mythol­o­gy, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that is cycli­cal­ly regen­er­at­ed or reborn, by aris­ing from the ash­es of its pre­de­ces­sor. In Welling­ton the Phoenix are the foot­ball team that are cur­rent­ly in a bit of poten­tial trou­ble. Accord­ing to some sources, a phoenix dies in a show of flames and com­bus­tion… one […]

Music to brew your beer to

Welling­ton on a Plate is well known for its exquis­ite din­ing, incred­i­ble burg­ers and inter­est­ing events and this year San Fran are putting on a fan­tas­tic series. Music2Brew2 brings togeth­er three Welling­ton brew­eries who have been brew­ing under the influ­ence. Inspired by three Welling­ton bands Pan­head, Garage Project and Tuatara have all brewed a beer that […]

The Third Eye + Boar & Blade + Mojo = The Vanuatu Fundraiser

UPDATE: Due to that das­tard­ly weath­er caus­ing hav­oc across Welling­ton today the Beer & Blade Van­u­atu Fundrais­er has been post­poned until tomor­row night, Fri­day, 15 May. You may recall, amidst all the atroc­i­ties that occur on a far too reg­u­lar basis through­out the world, that in mid-March Van­u­atu was hit by Cyclone Pam. The cyclone killed over 10 […]

I spy with my little eye

With a large num­ber of the Tuatara brew­ery staff being based in Welling­ton it does make sense for Tuatara to start some­thing more cen­tral­ly so that at least not every­one has to spend a cou­ple of hours every­day dri­ving to Kapi­ti. Think of the beer that could be brewed in that time! And there will be […]

Without literature, life is hell!

This Sat­ur­day a large num­ber of spots in Welling­ton are tak­ing part in a pub crawl but with­out the pubs. And with lit­er­a­ture instead. A Lit­Crawl if you will! Actu­al­ly that’s a slight lie. There are not only three pubs involved (Hashigo Zake, Meow and Lit­tle Beer Quar­ter) but there’s a Writ­ers’ Beer as well. Nine […]