Pig & Pinot – we’re as happy as pigs in mud

As you’re no doubt aware from watch­ing Short­land Street, it’s duck-hunt­ing sea­son. Usu­ally this means that Cloudy Bay would be doing duck & pinot noir pair­ings around the coun­try, but this year they’ve decided to do some­thing a little dif­fer­ent and pos­sibly a little more access­ible – pinot noir & pros­ciutto – “bring­ing you the […]

Chasing the Black Dog with beer

Last night we went to the open­ing of the new Black Dog brew­ery on Cuba Street, and, spoil­er alert, it was bloody delight­ful. All pics were sup­plied by the pub­li­cist because if you fol­low us on Twit­ter, you’ll know I can­’t pho­to­graph for shit. A con­fes­sion: I had nev­er been to the old Black Dog […]

WOAP 17: Concrete, Glasshouse, Hillside

How are we all going with Wel­ling­ton on a Plate then? As we tweeted today, there’s no less than three altern­at­ives to the offi­cial site in order to help you nav­ig­ate your way to a bur­ger (One, two, three). Maybe they’ll be incor­por­ated next year? In the mean­time, here’s what I’ve been eat­ing Lock Stock […]

WOAP 17: wine and whisky

It’s day five of this year’s Wel­ling­ton on a Plate and the city seems to be buzz­ing. So let’s get down to it. Here’s two events I went to on Sat­urday. Tapas & Tast­ings with Matahi­wi Wines at Avida Bar Wood­fire & Whisky at Ster­ling Tapas & Tast­ings I wrote about this last year, which maybe […]

WOAP 2017: Portlander

The Portlander at the Rydges Wel­ling­ton is well-known for its beef – they are a steak res­taur­ant after all. So of course their new­ish head chef decided to do a chick­en bur­ger for Wel­ling­ton on a Plate, because it was his chance to do some­thing dif­fer­ent. I was lucky enough to be invited in to […]

If you’re a food business, enter the Good Food Boost

When the world seems so gut-wrench­ingly awful and determ­ined to crush the most vul­ner­able even fur­ther into the ground it’s kind of hard to write about events and launches and deli­cious food (yes, truly we are the ones suf­fer­ing, etc. Not). So if we can spot­light people doing good work, like Epuni School’s Unity Garden I […]

Review: Oikos Hellenic Cuisine, Miramar

Oikos is the new Greek Res­taur­ant, in the the south­ern most southest part of Miramar,  on the 2 bus route, and close to the cycle tun­nel. This is firmly in Greek ter­rit­ory of Wel­ling­ton. The loc­al fish’n’­chip shops also serve a vari­ant of Greek food (yer­os mostly), which is a deli­cious altern­at­ive to fried fish. […]

Win a double pass to the 2017 Food Show in Wellington!

We’ve writ­ten before about the Food Show and how it’s basic­ally Rex Man­ning Day for people who like to try lots of food and taste a lot of wine. If you’re look­ing for ways to fire up your cre­at­ive juices in the kit­chen, look no fur­ther. The Food Show Wel­ling­ton is on at West­pac Sta­di­um […]

Wrap battles: Nam D vs Wraps & Rolls

There’s been an explo­sion of Viet­namese places to eat in Wel­ling­ton in recent years and we are def­in­itely not com­plain­ing about that. But with so many options, how do you choose where to go? For this post, I’m going to com­pare two places that are right by each oth­er on The Ter­race. Both are around […]

Parking ourselves at the Park Hotel (and a giveaway)

About a month ago, we atten­ded the open­ing of the Park Hotel where we ate amaz­ing canapes from Ster­ling (which we have raved about before), and heard newly crowned may­or Justin Lester say that Wel­ling­ton needs 1000 new hotel rooms to sus­tain growth (the Park Hotel has 137, fyi). We had a thor­oughly excel­lent time, […]