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.