Smells like year-old fish and rotten eggs. But awesome!

Has it real­ly been a year since Fish­head mag­a­zine launched? Appar­ent­ly so! Con­se­quent­ly, they’d like to par­ty with you! There’s be cock­tail spe­cials, free entry and Welling­ton super­group The Eggs play­ing. Fish­head birth­day after­par­ty Thurs­day March 31, 9pm-mid­night CQ Bar in the Qual­i­ty Hotel, 223 Cuba Street. Last one in’s a rot­ten…

A lake of laksa

As it’s get­ting cold­er, and we’re get­ting colds, the minds of the Welling­ton­ista turn towards hot, spicy sat­is­fac­tion. For some of us (well, at least me), this means lak­sa. But where on earth in Welling­ton can we find Malaysian food??? What’s that you say, on every sec­ond block? Okay, fine. But not all lak­sas are […]

Wellington Killah Beez on the Swarm

We like our blue cheese served with hon­ey at Pol­lux, and we like our cock­tails hon­ey-rimmed at S&M. It’s fair to say that we here at the Welling­ton­ista are fans of bees, no mat­ter what their polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions may be. That said, every­one knows we’re a bunch of pinko left­ies, so it’s only fit­ting that […]

Steak frites: does what it says on the box

If you’re after a clas­sic and hearty meal, then we hearti­ly rec­om­mend you hoof it to Le Met­ro­pol­i­tan on Cuba Street. In fact, we sug­gest you go there on Mon­day March 14 espe­cial­ly when they’re hav­ing a fundrais­er for Christchurch. How about I tell you about the din­ner I had there recent­ly in order to […]

Webstock directions: rock out, tweet up

We’re not going to both­er telling you about Web­stock because a) you should already know all about it and b) there was only one tick­et left as of this morn­ing (although there are still tick­ets to the ONYAs avail­able, so get on that. Instead, we’re going to tell you about two relat­ed events that we […]

The Owls Are Not What They Seem

You know that we’re big fans of Madame Fan­cy Pants. You know what we’re not fans of? Thieves! Dear MFP lovelies, Sor­ry to say that our big com­pe­ti­tion will be can­celed as some­one has stolen your prize. 🙁 If you hap­pen to know of some­one acquir­ing a Dead­ly Ponies Mr Night Owl bag.…? If you […]

Win Craft 2.0 craftcash for this Saturday!

The amaz­ing Craft 2.0 is hap­pen­ing again this Sat­ur­day, and its amaz­ing founder Sue Tyler (full dis­clo­sure: paid-up mem­ber of the Welling­ton­ista) has decid­ed that you should get a present. Or maybe you. We’ll leave it up to the ran­dom­iz­er to make the ulti­mate call. On Sat­ur­day, 18 Decem­ber, Welling­to­ni­ans who want to gift in […]

Win a Most Wanted voucher

Edit: Con­grat­u­la­tions to Com­ment #3 who the ran­dom­iz­er select­ed — Lau­ra, I will email you to get your address. In all the con­fu­sion, fun and booze at the TAWAs last week, I com­plete­ly for­got that we had anoth­er prize give­away to do, a vouch­er for Most Want­ed Vin­tage at 81 Aro Street. Most Want­ed Vin­tage […]

Voting is closed, time to party!

Well con­grat­u­la­tions Welling­to­ni­ans & wannabes, even with a short­er vot­ing peri­od we saw a record num­ber of votes for the fifth The Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards. Now that vot­ing is closed, let’s pay atten­tion to tomor­row night. OMG, what are you going to wear? Here’s what’s going to hap­pen on the night tomor­row, Decem­ber 3rd. The […]

Voting is now open in fifth annual Wellingtonista Awards

We’re exhaust­ed from a mam­moth day of post­ing all the nom­i­na­tions (bloody good work, team!) so we just want­ed to let you know that vot­ing is now open. Go read our sticky post for links to all our nom­i­na­tions, and make sure you check them out before you cast your votes. Then we’ll see you […]