Best of the week 15 July – 4 August

Words appar­ently don’t mean any­thing any­more, so here’s our best of the week cov­er­ing… a little bit more than a week. Because life. So here’s what’s good and Wel­ling­ton-related this week! Best adult learn­ing option that you didn’t know about Some people know Make Room for their won­der­ful chil­dren’s STEM edu­ca­tion classes, but you may […]

Best of the week 7–14 July 2024

Here’s what’s good and Wel­ling­ton-related this week! Best book that every Wel­ling­to­ni­an should read because I just did and wow Sod­den Down­stream by Bran­navan Gnan­alingam.  This has sat neg­lected on my book­shelf for far too long after it came out in 2017, but as our pub­lic trans­port gets worse, ter­rible weath­er events get more fre­quent […]

a group of people sitting around an outdoor fire

Best of the last little while – June 2024

Hey, guess who’s been too busy with oth­er brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while.  Best behaved weath­er of the week Nice weath­er on a pub­lic hol­i­day allow­ing us to sit out­side around a fire and set […]

andrew's hand screwing a switch

Best of the week: 9–16 June 2016

Best con­tri­bu­tion to soci­ety The monthly Repair Cafe at Ngaio Uni­on Church.  How cool to have a big room full of incred­ibly com­pet­ent humans ded­ic­ated to help­ing oth­ers for free (you can con­trib­ute koha and if you don’t have coins, ask them for their bank account num­ber). I took a record play­er and was not […]

very floofy dog

Best of the week: 2 June to 9 June 2024

Our weekly roundup of best things in Wel­ling­ton con­tin­ues and this week we’ve got con­tri­bu­tions from Alan, Joanna, Martha and Tom. Best new place for dogs off leash We dis­covered that dogs are ok unleashed on the Remu­taka Incline so we were able to take our fluff­beast bik­ing with us (she’s got her own bike […]

a sea of Māori flags

Best of the week 26 May – 2 June

This week fea­tures con­tri­bu­tions from Alan, Nadia, Emma and Joanna Best value lunches for those days you’re work­ing in town and have for­got­ten that you’re sup­posed to be mak­ing your lunch or eat­ing leftovers… I’m kinda hes­it­ant to men­tion it (as I don’t want them to run out before I get there) but the $9 […]

soup and a scone at Arlo

Best of the Week: May 18–25

Our weekly wrap-up of what’s good,  this time fea­tur­ing fea­tur­ing Emma, Joanna and Tom Emma’s bests Best theatre: Farce Onion at BATS – a deeply warm­ing joy­ous non­sense impro­vised time Best vibes: Still­wa­ter – I only had a drink there with some mates so I can­’t speak to the effic­acy of their cof­fee or food […]

Best of the week: May 11–18 2024

A new weekly fea­ture! Here’s what was good! Hope­fully future edi­tions will include bests from oth­er Wel­ling­tonista mem­bers too. And don’t for­get, if you want to con­trib­ute to the site, please email us! Best delivered food of the week The grilled lem­on­grass chick­en salad from Rock Yard (pic­tured here with slow cooked pork in roti […]

paper bottles of Mothers Ruined Gin on a beach

A ginterview with the mothers of Mothers Ruined

Full dis­clos­ure: I have worked with the Moth­ers on Boom Gin – a col­lab­or­a­tion with my eth­ic­al cloth­ing com­pany, which is fund­ing a schol­ar­ship to the week­end for fat babes that I run. Even if I had­n’t done that though, I would still think they are very cool and inter­est­ing people who make deli­cious products […]

A couple of new(ish) bars

Hey, remem­ber when we used to be on top of all the open­ings and clos­ings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me neither. The ‘ista is old and prop­erty-and-busi­­ness own­ing now, and we have Twit­ter instead of our group mail­ing list. But we can still try! So to that end, here’s a couple of […]