Easter markets

Here are the YES’s and NO’s for the usu­al Wel­ling­ton mar­kets over East­er if you fancy a wander and inhale or imbibe: YES’s: Frank Kitts under­ground craft mar­ket on Sat­urday Pori­rua and Hutt River­side mar­kets on Sat­urday Hill Street Farm­ers mar­ket on Sat­urday The Fringe Mar­kets in Allen Street on Sat­urday Har­bourside mar­ket on Sunday […]

Sweeties for your sweetie…

As if East­er com­ing isn’t enough (I hear the cin­na­mon bun­nies at Bohemein are hop­ping out the door again), we now have more sweet deli­cious­ness on offer around the city. Firstly the new ven­ture on Feath­er­ston Street in the old Capri space – Louis Ser­geant Sweet Cou­ture.  By (you’ll nev­er guess…) Louis Ser­geant, the until-recently […]

Reviewing the review: Veni Vedi Vici

Wel­ling­ton has one daily news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one res­taur­ant crit­ic, who cer­tainly has his own… dis­tinct­ive style. The Fly has decided that Dav­id Bur­ton needs some account­ab­il­ity. We’re giv­ing him his own series. The review from March 14  Dav­id Bur­ton is more worldly than you: 5/5 “Veni Vidi Vici may eas­ily roll off the […]

A ginger latte, other Eva-Leeds tipples and Caffeination

Six Bar­rel Soda is a semi-reg­u­lar stop and there I recently found a ginger latte (their ginger syr­up with hot latte milk), with or without a shot of cof­fee.  You prob­ably do have to be a ginger fan, but it was rather deli­cious and autum­nal.  I also spied a new rhu­barb syr­up and then after […]

Reviewing the review: The Canteen

Wel­ling­ton has one daily news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one res­taur­ant crit­ic, who cer­tainly has his own… dis­tinct­ive style. The Fly has decided that Dav­id Bur­ton needs some account­ab­il­ity. We’re giv­ing him his own series. The review: The Canteen – much more than a greasy spoon Dav­id Bur­ton is bet­ter than you: 4/5 “Although he […]

A solo date with the mob

Have you been read­ing Solo Date City? This anonym­ous blog­ger is eat­ing her way around Wel­ling­ton alone, writ­ing gor­geously about both the exper­i­ence and the feel­ings that pro­pelled her to that res­taur­ant in the first place. I love to eat brunch or even lunch by myself, but din­ner not so much, so tonight I took […]

Reviewing the review: Flight Hangar

Wel­ling­ton has one daily news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one res­taur­ant crit­ic, who cer­tainly has his own… dis­tinct­ive style. The Fly has decided that Dav­id Bur­ton needs some account­ab­il­ity. Wel­come to this new series. What review: Dav­id Bur­ton on The Hangar Dav­id Bur­ton is bet­ter than you: 3/5 “Yet des­pite our endur­ing Kiwi attach­ment to […]

Fix and Fogg, Wooden Spoons and Little Black Devils…

Some more Wel­ling­ton artis­an products now all avail­able under one roof at Moore Wilson for your tast­ing pleas­ure, and more well deserved chocol­ate accol­ades for Bohemein fresh chocol­ates (long time pro­vider at MW). (Detect­ive) Fix and (Phileas) Fogg (around the world in eighty days any­one?) pea­nut but­ter might provide the first ser­i­ous loc­al con­tender against […]

Dessert anyone?

I’ve been think­ing about the fab­ulous desserts I’ve had in recent times around Wel­ling­ton (promp­ted by anoth­er couple of really good inhal­ings over the week­end). I think we’re pretty spoilt with the num­ber and vari­ety of options frankly. Some that stick in my mind (and I do con­fess to eat­ing a few, so these truly […]

Grab yer kilt…

A little bird­ie told me there’s a Scot­tish degust­a­tion some­time in the near future at the Copthorne Ori­ent­al’s One80 res­taur­ant. So a bit of dig­ging around uncovered the menu and price (here) and the date (this Sat­urday 25th Janu­ary). Cock-a-leekie soup, hag­gis, neeps, short­bread and clootie dump­lings, just to name a few delights.  All matched […]