Eat and eat and eat some more

At last those of us who are not sport­ing­ly inclined have a rea­son to vis­it the Cake Tin, and what a rea­son it is! The annu­al food show is upon us again, and I hope you’ve been train­ing. There real­ly are few things that match drink­ing large amounts of tiny lit­tle cups of wine and […]

Are you game?

Next month, there will be an unusu­al col­lab­o­ra­tion between urban gourmets and huntin’ shootin’ fishin’ types. The Fish & Game NZ Wild Game Bird Food Fes­ti­val, which runs from the 8th to the 28th of May, encour­ages hunters to bring their prey into par­tic­i­pat­ing restu­ar­ants where their catch can be trans­formed into gourmet dish­es. The […]

Your last supper

Let Welling­ton­ista point you towards the Last Sup­per Club’s bible-quot­ing yum­my sound­ing menu that’s avail­able at their web­site. Yes­ter­day it was more elab­o­rate, while the restau­rant fea­tures a much more sim­ple ver­sion. How­ev­er, today, the real menu is online. We all live hap­pi­ly ever after. Here’s a hot tip for you — if you are […]

The Dockside Christmas Menu

This par­tic­u­lar Welling­ton­ista was lucky enough to be invit­ed to an asso­ci­ate’s Christ­mas lunch at the Dock­side. It’d been a while since we’d been there, and last time it was a win­try evening & we hud­dled some­where upstairs. Yes­ter­day how­ev­er, was as trop­i­cal as it comes & we were delight­ed to dis­cov­er that our table […]

Hataitai: All your food are belong to us

Have you ever want­ed to just eat your way around a sub­urb? No? Well, we here at Welling­ton­ista have, and we fig­ured it would make sense to start with Hataitai. After all, who does­n’t love Hataitai? So here’s what you can get to eat:

More drinking in Wellington

Far and away our most pop­u­lar post in the last wee while was Jo’s ‘Drink­ing Welling­ton on the Cheap’ from last week. Dis­cus­sion of water­ing holes around Welling­ton seems to be a pop­u­lar top­ic, as Stephen of Dork­ing Labs’ ‘Drinks After Work’ has joined in with his own bar review, the first of what he […]

Drinking Wellington on the Cheap

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there are cheap and/or free things for you to do every sin­gle day in Welling­ton. Because Welling­ton­ista not only loves Welling­ton, but also YOU, we’ve com­piled a bit of a list for what you can do every day. Mon­day: If you go to Chow, […]

Drink Me!

New York has the Man­hat­tan, and Metrop­o­lis has the Met­ro­pol­i­tan, but what is Welling­ton’s sig­na­ture drink? In order to answer that ques­tion, we here at the Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers have decid­ed to launch the search for the per­fect Welling­ton­ista. What’s in the drink, you ask? Well, that’s up to you. Yes, that’s right, it’s our very […]

Cabaret

Last night, unwind­ing from a hard week, we stopped by the new Cabaret out­fit adjoin­ing Chow on Tory Street to check out the enter­tain­ment. It’s a love­ly space — the decor is won­der­ful­ly ele­gant: dark wood­en tables, wood lou­vres, beau­ti­ful car­pet and remark­able light­shades. There’s a warm red back­drop to the stage where I saw […]

Meat on Tory

We Welling­ton­ists are all veg­an of course… bacon is a veg­etable, right? But call­ing all car­ni­vores! — there’s a new place in Tory street you’ll prob­a­bly want to check out… STUFF : FOOD & WINE — STORY : Meat on Tory