Another craft beer bar for Wellington

Open­ing this Fri­day is anoth­er craft beer bar called Gold­ing’s Free Dive, at 14 Leeds Street. That’s right by Piz­za Pomodoro, for those of you play­ing along at home, and they’ll be mak­ing full use of their loca­tion. Golding’s Free Dive con­ve­nient­ly shares the court­yard with Pomodoro Piz­za, which is just as well as Pomodoro will […]

The best of Raybon Kan

The com­e­dy fest is on right now! And we haven’t got­ten around to organ­is­ing our­selves to get along to things, because day jobs are real­ly busy right now. Sor­ry! So instead, we’ll go with things that are eas­i­ly pre­sent­ed to us. Com­e­dy is a hard game,  so if you can man­age to make a liv­ing […]

Drunken conversations: Beth from Eat and Greet

Every­one who’s a drinker knows that the best con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen when you are plied with good food and good drinks, so I’ve decid­ed I’m going to inter­view some choice Welling­to­ni­ans after we have been imbib­ing togeth­er. First on the plate is Beth from Eat and Greet which launched last year and is doing a real­ly great […]

Purple Cake Day is this Sunday, and there’s cake

We like cake. We like high tea.  We like kids get­ting edu­ca­tion. And we like the colour pur­ple, Whoopi Gold­berg not with­stand­ing. So we’re def­i­nite­ly keen on Pur­ple Cake Day this Sun­day March 10. “Cel­e­brate Pur­ple Cake Day with High Tea at the Coro­na­tion Café. Come along to one of our four sit­tings for a […]

On the fringes

The Fringe Fes­ti­val is hap­pen­ing from now until March 9! This is excit­ing! There are approx­i­mate­ly six zil­lion shows hap­pen­ing, and while the ‘ista is cov­er­ing as many as it can (and thank you for your invites, pro­duc­ers, we appre­ci­ate them!), we do all have day jobs and are all only human, except for Tom […]

What not to wear to the sevens

It’s that time of year when peo­ple will call us buz­zkills for not enjoy­ing hav­ing our streets extra-clogged with vom­it and hav­ing all of our female friends feel extra unsafe on the streets because of all the doucheca­noes who think that because they’re wear­ing a cos­tume they can harass with impuni­ty. But we’re not buz­zkills, […]

Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup time again!

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brew­er, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 13. Spot us by our Web­stock satchels,  Insta­gram­ming […]

Signs of the time — advertising we like

So many sur­faces in Welling­ton are crammed with posters try­ing to sell us some­thing, so we thought it might be nice to look at some of the adver­tis­ing that actu­al­ly looks good. This week, our favourite piece of adver­tis­ing are these posters from Welling­ton Zoo. These absolute­ly gor­geous ani­mals (there’s a red pan­da in the […]

Any Portlander in a storm — a night at the Rydges

Ages ago we saw an ad in the paper for The Port­lander at Rydges Welling­ton  in the paper, and after look­ing at pic­tures of their burg­ers, we head­ed along there for lunch. The lamb burg­er was slow-cooked in duck fat, and it was deli­cious, crispy bits spilling out every­where. The onion rings were heav­en too, sec­ond only to […]

More Auckland vs Wellington malarky

Recent­ly menus.co.nz put up a piece called Auck­land is the cap­i­tal of cui­sine – not Welling­ton, and then asked a num­ber of Welling­ton food blog­gers to respond. The Auck­land inter­net seems to be very short of space, as our response was edit­ed quite heav­i­ly(*) despite stick­ing to the word lim­it (and links changed to pro­mote […]