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 […]