TAWA5 Best BYO

BYO restaurants to us are places where you can hold a large gathering, you can eat some tasty food, and if you don’t count the cost of your bottle, you can get totally stuffed for around $25. There are a million and one place with BYO licenses in Wellington, but these are the ones that […]

TAWA5 Best Drink in Town

Wellington is full of bars, and those bars are full of drinks (and drunks). But if you only want the very best in your mouth, this is what you’ll be ordering.

TAWA5 Best Event

There’s always something to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are circled in red on our calendars. We’re counting the sleeps until next year’s events!

TAWA5 Best Late Night Experience

Things get a little different in town once the sun goes down. For many, including us, this is the best time of day. What do we do in the darkness? Well that would be telling, but these are the places you’ll find us.

TAWA5 Most Missed

We loved you… and then you were gone. When will we see you again? When will we share those precious moments? (etc etc.) Here are some great Wellington things we miss:

TAWA5 Best Service

What makes a cafe/bar/restaurant a place to you want to return to over and over again? Simple. It is people, it is people, it is people. And these are some of the finest people in town.

TAWA5 Best Restaurant

Restaurant dining is the sort of thing that you do on special occasions, but also any time you want something to eat and you don’t mind spending a little bit of time and perhaps a bit of money to do it. You might want to make a reservation in advance, and perhaps make sure that […]

TAWA5 Best Café

Not to be confused with “Best Coffee”. This category is about the sort of place you go for brunch on a Sunday morning. Good coffee is important, but so is good food.

TAWA5 Best Coffee

Blood may be thicker than water, but coffee is pretty much more important than blood. We pump our veins full at these places.

What’s happened to Offbeat Originals?

What’s happened to Offbeat Originals?

A sign has appeared on the door of the TAWA-nominated cafe advising the popular joint is "closed until further notice".

This news has thrown the Wellington beatnik and hipster community into a disarray. Where will we go for our toasties, tofu burgers and peanut butter and chocolate shakes? Where will we sit in the sun listening to bangin’ old punk?

A Facebook group called Save Offbeat Originals has been created, hinting that perhaps an evil corporation has something to do with it.

But at this stage, we still don’t know what’s behind Offbeat’s sudden closure. If you have any info, leave a comment.