Hands around the Basin — a protest

A guest post from Alex Braae The Basin Reserve is for many Welling­to­ni­ans a spe­cial place, and for many dif­fer­ent rea­sons. The Basin is a place where mem­o­ries are cre­at­ed, and I know from expe­ri­ence what an amaz­ing spot it is for kids to play. It’s part of our her­itage, and part of the life […]

WOP: let’s hear it for the Floyd

I have clear­ly timed career moves bad­ly, because in the hun­gry wait for Welling­ton on a Plate I was unem­ployed and spent large parts of the day dream­ing about where and what I would eat, but now it’s on, I have a tem­po­rary job and it’s not in the CBD. Dis­as­ter! How­ev­er, it turned out […]

Snow in Cuba

You might not have noticed, but it’s pret­ty cold in Welling­ton right now. In fact, let us be the very first peo­ple to tell you: it’s snow­ing in some parts. Woah! Now we have dis­pensed with the usu­al sar­casm, please enjoy this beau­ti­ful video by Ro Tier­ney of the snow in Cuba Mall. Snow on […]

WOP: Eating the other cheek

Miss Hun­gry & Frozen said the oth­er day “I think cheeks are the new shanks”. Read­ing var­i­ous Dine menus for Welling­ton on Plate, they are indeed every­where. You won’t hear a com­plaint about that from me. Instead, you get to read about how I had beef cheeks for lunch and then din­ner on Thurs­day. Atlanta […]

WOP: A deluge of dreadfulness at Monsoon Poon

Our mouths have been work­ing over­time this week, with all the Welling­ton on a Plate action going around. Of course Tues­day had the abort­ed attempt at Lager­field and then eat­ing off the reg­u­lar menu at Fratel­li. Tonight we’ve got reviews of Mon­soon Poon, Atlanta and Bet­tys for you, which to sum up were DREADFUL, decent […]

Some Italian jobs

1. The Mediter­ranean Ware­house in New­town has under­gone some ren­o­va­tions tak­ing out the wall sep­a­rat­ing the pizze­ria from the ware­house, so now there’s an extend­ed deli counter and you dine among the shelves. The price of an indi­vid­ual piz­za may have grad­u­al­ly increased $4 over the past cou­ple’o years but now you can get a bowl of […]

Cos we ain’t not no hollaback girls

You know what sucks? Get­ting yelled at on the street (unless it’s some­one yelling “Hey Welling­ton­ista, you’re awe­some, come and have some free drinks in my bar if you like” in a non-threat­en­ing way. Please do that). So Hol­laback! wants to do some­thing about it. We’ve got your back!  Hol­laback! is an inter­na­tion­al move­ment to end […]

Where would you take an odd tourist?

We occa­sion­al­ly get requests from peo­ple who see us as being experts on Welling­ton, and it’s true, we are. But so are you. So help us answer this guy’s ques­tion! “I am look­ing for places/locations in the Welling­ton area to take a group of over­seas vis­i­tors too. I am not want­i­ng to go to the nor­mal […]

The power of Voodoo (who do?)

When we talked about the Rap­ture, we men­tioned Voodoo Restau­rant on Man­ners Street in brief, but that real­ly was­n’t enough. See­ing it’s got the Grabone treat­ment today (hur­ry! Only three hours left!), we do need to tell you just how damn deli­cious Voodoo is. In the wacked out Dis­ney­land atmos­phere of the old Harem, Voodoo is try­ing […]

Wellington on a delicious plate

It has been a cou­ple of weeks now since the launch of the Visa Welling­ton on a Plate pro­gramme, and we have been very remiss in not telling you about it. Your cred­it card, how­ev­er, will thank us, as many of the events are now sold out. The launch was held in Mojo’s roast­ing premis­es […]