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 […]