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