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 […]