WOAP: just one burger

I’m run­ning out of food-related puns. I know right, what is this I don’t even. That’s how much I’ve been eat­ing and writ­ing and writ­ing about eat­ing lately. So let’s just get right into it, shall we? Just one review for you tonight. 1. The Great Phil­adelphi­an Cheese­bur­ger at The Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er.  I’m no real­ity TV […]

WOAP overload: a plum and a duke

I love Wel­ling­ton on a Plate, espe­cially when I ignore my bank bal­ance and focus on tick­ing off as many lines as pos­sible on my spread­sheet.  I’ve got a couple more places to review still, but in the interests of actu­ally get­ting to sleep tonight, I’ll just give you two – Plum and Duke Carvell’s. If […]

WOAP: Bake Club

The first rule of Bake Club is you have to talk about Bake Club. That splits off into sub­sec­tions about using hasht­ags and Ins­tagram. The second rule of Bake Club is that I sup­pose a link might be help­ful. And the third rule is I’m going to put in a jump cut here. After the […]

Running down underground to a dive bar in Welly-town

A few Wel­ling­tonis­tas recently had occa­sion to dis­cuss the pos­sib­il­it­ies for get­ting a drink – a ser­i­ous drink, mind, not a Mimosa or Bloody Mary – at 9:30am on a Monday. Now we’d hate to advoc­ate heavy drink­ing to any­one (though it’s always worked for us), and none of our spec­u­la­tion should be seen as in any […]

now we’re cooking with fire

Leaf­ing through the Wel­ling­ton on a Plate cata­log some months ago, one event in par­tic­u­lar seemed to stand out for me. This was Cook­ing Over Fire, The Argen­tine Way, to be held at El Mata­dor, the new “Café, Asad­or Grill & Bar” up Cuba Street. Asad­or is the Argen­tine nation­al dish, a way of slow-cook­ing […]

Beer what you want to beer

It’s Choice Beer Week here in Wel­ling­ton and last night The Sut­ton Group Brew­ers Guild of New Zea­l­and Awards took place at the Michael Fowl­er Centre. Har­ring­ton’s Brew­er­ies of Christ­ch­urch took out the top hon­ours and were named Cham­pi­on Brew­ery in New Zea­l­and for 2012. Wel­ling­ton, being the self-claimed and now gen­er­ally accep­ted Craft Beer […]

More WOAP: the bland, the sublime and the curious

As I said before, I’m work­ing my way around the lunch­time Dine menus of places near my work. Here’s what I’ve got to report. 1. Vivant 2. Little Beer Quarter 3. Ti Kouka Cafe 4. Finc

Wellington on a Plate so far

Wel­ling­ton on a Plate opened on Fri­day. How’s it been for you so far? We’ve been try­ing to share people’s microreviews on Twit­ter, and of course @wellyonaplate will be even more inform­at­ive,  but I thought I’d do some prop­er writeups for you about what I’ve been eat­ing. So, in chro­no­lo­gic­al order: Dine menu at The […]

Brancott all dressed up and ready to WOW you

We’ve really enjoyed going to  the Bran­cott Estate World of Wear­ableArt Awards Show over the past couple of years, back from when the nam­ing rights spon­sor had a dif­fer­ent name. We’ve also really enjoyed wine over the past twenty years or so as well. Nat­ur­ally, some­thing that mixes the two is going to make us happy.  Bran­cott […]

It’s all in the game.

Avert your eyes if you are veget­ari­an, have an aver­sion to meat products, or if you’ve had a pet bird and now chick­en is not a menu option. What fol­lows is a dis­cus­sion of a delect­able degust­a­tion din­ner con­sist­ing of game birds. Unless you belong to one of the three groups above how can you […]