My kingdom for some booze with my satay!

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! Satay King­dom (Shop 212, Left Bank, Wel­ling­ton) is named by many people in Wel­ling­ton as their favour­ite Malay­si­an because of its prices. It […]

Rasa Malaysia – top eats near the top’o Cuba

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! A freez­ing south­erly was blow­ing around Wel­ling­ton when I met with a group of friends at Rasa Malay­sia on Upper Cuba Street, […]

WOP: The taste of happy

So, a couple more excur­sions to res­taur­ants with Wel­ling­ton on a Plate menus. I’m con­sid­er­ing going to the Ware­house and buy­ing a pair of elast­­ic-waisted track­pants for the rest of Wel­ling­ton on a Plate. Most recently I paid a vis­it to Cuba Street icon Floriditas and Hip­po­pot­amus at the Museum Hotel.

WOP: let’s hear it for the Floyd

I have clearly timed career moves badly, because in the hungry wait for Wel­ling­ton on a Plate I was unem­ployed and spent large parts of the day dream­ing about where and what I would eat, but now it’s on, I have a tem­por­ary job and it’s not in the CBD. Dis­aster! How­ever, it turned out […]

WOP: Give me shelter

So, Wel­ling­ton on a Plate – it’s quite good, yeah? While Joanna is a (deli­ciously) seasoned pro, this is my first year sampling the culin­ary delights of the fest­iv­al of nomz. So I figured I should share my find­ings. Here are my first two exper­i­ences – Mar­tin Bos­ley’s and Fox­glove.

WOP: Eating the other cheek

Miss Hungry & Frozen said the oth­er day “I think cheeks are the new shanks”. Read­ing vari­ous Dine menus for Wel­ling­ton on Plate, they are indeed every­where. You won’t hear a com­plaint about that from me. Instead, you get to read about how I had beef cheeks for lunch and then din­ner on Thursday. Atlanta […]

WOP: A deluge of dreadfulness at Monsoon Poon

Our mouths have been work­ing over­time this week, with all the Wel­ling­ton on a Plate action going around. Of course Tues­day had the abor­ted attempt at Lager­field and then eat­ing off the reg­u­lar menu at Fra­telli. Tonight we’ve got reviews of Mon­soon Poon, Atlanta and Bettys for you, which to sum up were DREADFUL, decent […]

Some Italian jobs

1. The Medi­ter­ranean Ware­house in New­town has under­gone some renov­a­tions tak­ing out the wall sep­ar­at­ing the pizzer­ia from the ware­house, so now there’s an exten­ded deli counter and you dine among the shelves. The price of an indi­vidu­al pizza may have gradu­ally increased $4 over the past couple’o years but now you can get a bowl of […]

All your beers are belong to us

It used to be that if you wanted a good selec­tion of inde­pend­ent and craft beers, your options were lim­ited: Malt­house, per­haps Bar Bodega back in the day, or a bus out to New­town for Bar Edward. But since the arrival of Hashigo Zake, it seems that boutique beer is in, and there’s a sud­den […]

Tom Beard jumps the shark!

(Just kid­ding) Like par­ents – or how we ima­gine them to be – we are immensely proud when one of our snotty brats achieves recog­ni­tion for the things at which they excel. And in this case, Oor Tom has been fea­tured in the My Favour­ite Table sec­tion in Wed­nes­day’s Dom Post Cap­it­al Life sup­ple­ment, being recog­nised for […]