Wellington in a Pint (or four)

“Would you like to come and drink free beer?” the mes­sage asked. What does a self-respect­ing bar­fly say to that? ‘No’? And so the Fly found itself buzz­ing around the advert­ising types at the Fork & Brew­er last night for the launch of Clemenger’s new Wel­ling­ton in a Pint cam­paign. Advert­ising types are not the […]

We like to play games

You know how it goes – you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you some­where, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then […]

It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!

Ha ha ha, of course we’re kid­ding. Let’s talk about pan­cakes instead.We wanna know where Wel­ling­ton’s best pan­cakes are at. Today for lunch I went to Cafe Panama (in fact, I am still there. Woo!), and this is what I ate: I thought I was order­ing stand­ard pan­cakes with banana and bacon for $11.50, but […]

It was a very good beer

After hav­ing a great even­ing at Fork and Brew­er last week for the Offi­cial Wel­ling­tonista Unof­fi­cial Web­stock Wed­nes­day War­mup, where large num­bers of loc­al beer and large plat­ters of deli­cious nibbles were placed before us like the Web Roy­alty we wish/pretend/believe ourselves to be, I was extremely excited to hear about the event they are […]

Summer fairs are here

After the rush of pre-Christ­mas shop­ping when it’s all about every­one else and the right present for the right per­son and being lovely and self­less, it’s rather nice when sum­mer fair sea­son rolls around. Sum­mer fairs are not just about shop­ping for thing for oth­er people, although that is an excel­lent and import­ant com­pon­ent to […]

The Restaurant Website Drinking Game

In our review of Cap­it­ol, we men­tioned how we go there des­pite the dread­ful­ness of their web­site (but you prob­ably missed that bit and cut straight to talk­ing about neg­ronis). What espe­cially is so bad about their site? There’s Flash, con­tact details hid­den, menus embed­ded that don’t even work prop­erly (can any­one tell me what […]

Capitol opposite of punishment

With a couple of fam­ily birth­days tak­ing place over the hol­i­days, Janu­ary was a good time to assemble for din­ner togeth­er. Hav­ing dined at Cap­it­ol before (in fact, it’s been nom­in­ated for TAWAs mul­tiple times), I was­n’t put off by its Flash web­site or that they don’t take book­ings for groups smal­ler than eight. As […]

My highlights for 2011

I had a busy year, which shows in my poor post­ing record recently. Des­pite the man­i­fold reas­ons to be cheer­less, there were also plenty of good things hap­pen­ing in Wel­ling­ton: on the water­front, up Cuba St and all over town.

My personal Wellington highlights of 2011

We did­n’t have the TAWAs this year, but lots of awe­some­ness still took place. Here’s a very self-indul­­gent look at what I par­tic­u­larly loved and did­n’t – hope­fully oth­er Wel­ling­tonis­tas will add their own posts too.

No poison at this PoissonHead afterparty

We know that you are gut­ted (like a fish!) that you can­’t party with us at the TAWAs this year (so gut­ted you could­n’t even com­ment, appar­ently). Luck­ily, we DO have a way for you to get your party on with some fab­ulous Wel­ling­ton media types any­way! Present­ing: the Fish­Head magazine after­party! This Thursday Decem­ber […]