Cake, Cronuts and Creativity

So in the first of my (intend­ed) week­ly reminder of Welling­ton food­ie gems, I’m think­ing back to din­ner at the new WBC restau­rant and bar from the Capi­tol folks (upstairs on Vic­to­ria above Tat­sushi), and Saturday’s dou­ble break­fast of cake fol­lowed by cronut (did I men­tion the slight­ly sweet tooth yet?). So, WBC.  Named for […]

Eats, rides and city living (and now earthquakes!)

This post is an intro­duc­tion since the folks at Welling­ton­ista have kind­ly invit­ed me to join their mer­ry band (and I now have an unex­pect­ed day off since the office is closed). So a lit­tle about me ….  I LOVE Welling­ton, food, events, eat­ing expe­ri­ences, movies, solo Sat­ur­day morn­ing wan­ders, soak­ing up the city vibe, […]

Keeping warm with carb-on-carb

It’s win­ter, which means the Welling­ton­ista’s thoughts turn to warm­ing food to warm our­selves up. What’s more warm­ing than the love­ly hug of car­bo­hy­drates? The dou­ble hug of at least two kinds of carbs at once! With that in mind, here are some of our favourite carb-on-carb expe­ri­ences in Welling­ton: Mac’n cheese slid­ers at Pick­le. […]

Beer Belly Jellies

Anoth­er guest post from Heather at Food­ie Gems of Welling­ton. We love guest posts.  For all you crafty beer fans out there, an inno­v­a­tive new prod­uct – Beer Bel­ly Jel­lies. Inspired by a sim­i­lar prod­uct in Cana­da some years ago, Lindy McLen­nan has part­nered with the Par­rot­Dog boys to hand craft these delights. So as […]

Wellington on a Plate is here again, hurrah!

Right now we’re knee-deep in deli­cious wine and food at the Welling­ton on a Plate launch at Pre­fab so if all’s going well, this post will go live right after the media embar­go ends. For now, here’s what we’ve writ­ten about Welling­ton on a Plate over the past cou­ple of years, and below is the […]

Fairtrade coffee that you make for yourself

Fair­trade Fort­night may be over, but that does­n’t mean it’s not some­thing to still think about. When some­one else is mak­ing the cof­fee for you, you may be drawn to par­tic­u­lar beans because of their fair trade sta­tus. Why not apply the same cri­te­ria when you’re drink­ing it at home or work? Hand­i­ly the good peo­ple […]

Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN’T?!

If you think the restau­rant that sits on the cor­ner of Cuba and Vivian Streets, along­side Frut­ti, and oppo­site Logan Brown serves a) food and b) Mex­i­can food then you are sore­ly mis­tak­en and should get your­self to La Boca Loca asap. Don’t even fin­ish read­ing this. Get in a car, a bus, on a […]

What a Feeling!

Do you ever won­der what hap­pens at the end of the day to the fresh­ly made bread that Welling­ton bak­eries can’t sell? Do you ever won­der what hap­pens to the fresh fruit and veg­eta­bles at the mar­kets that are still edi­ble but not good enough to sell? I can tell you. For the last few […]

Good cola has good karma (and a giveaway)

A lot of peo­ple I know, myself includ­ed, have had a rough cou­ple of weeks, so let’s talk about nice things instead! Specif­i­cal­ly, let’s talk about Kar­ma Cola and Gin­gerella. The good peo­ple at All Good Organ­ics (they lit­er­al­ly are good peo­ple!) dropped some off for us to try, and they were deli­cious. The Kar­ma […]

FishHead DineOut awards: get your vote in!

Just a reminder that vot­ing in Fish­Head mag­a­zine’s Dine­Out awards 2013 clos­es this Fri­day the 19th. Get in now and vote for your favourite restau­rants, bars and cafés through­out the Welling­ton region, and you’ll be in to win a cof­fee grinder and a year’s sup­ply of Havana cof­fee.