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.