Drunken conversations: Beth from Eat and Greet

Every­one who’s a drinker knows that the best con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen when you are plied with good food and good drinks, so I’ve decid­ed I’m going to inter­view some choice Welling­to­ni­ans after we have been imbib­ing togeth­er. First on the plate is Beth from Eat and Greet which launched last year and is doing a real­ly great […]

Official Wellingtonista Unofficial Webstock Wednesday Warmup time again!

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fourth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. Once again,  we’ll be at the Fork and Brew­er, upstairs in Bond Street, from 5.30pm on Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 13. Spot us by our Web­stock satchels,  Insta­gram­ming […]

More Auckland vs Wellington malarky

Recent­ly menus.co.nz put up a piece called Auck­land is the cap­i­tal of cui­sine – not Welling­ton, and then asked a num­ber of Welling­ton food blog­gers to respond. The Auck­land inter­net seems to be very short of space, as our response was edit­ed quite heav­i­ly(*) despite stick­ing to the word lim­it (and links changed to pro­mote […]

What we’ve been tweeting about lately

Do you fol­low us on Twit­ter? A lot of you do. But you might miss our tweets in amongst all your very impor­tant updates from sports­peo­ple, so here’s what’s been going on. We talked about a new Mojo open­ing in the Tele­com build­ing on Willis Street, and what a relief that was since it was […]

Data without borders

They say that knowl­edge is pow­er, and when it comes down to it, knowl­edge often comes from data. But how do you get the most out of your data? Or how do you get your hands on some­one else’s? Find out on Thurs­day June 28. Data With­out Bor­ders NZ is gath­er­ing a net­work of non-prof­its, […]

A super great night with Gamefroot

Last night the City Gallery played host to the launch of Game­f­root, a new plat­form on which to build plat­form games — or more specif­i­cal­ly, a HTML5 Game Cre­ation tool. If you can use a web brows­er and if you can use mouse to click and drag – then you can use Game­f­root. The bar has […]

Get Mr Gay Wellington to Mr Gay World!

This week­end in Auck­land is the Big Gay Out. Now that wouldn’t be of much inter­est to us here at the Welling­ton­ista because Out In The Square, the capital’s own queer fes­ti­val is big­ger and bet­ter, but at the Big Gay Out they’re also run­ning the Mr Gay New Zealand com­pe­ti­tion and Wellington’s Mar­cus Fen­son […]

Less than a week til Webstock ’12!

Can you feel the excite­ment in the air? Hear the squeak of glass­es being polished,Threadless pack­ages being opened, plaid shirts being ironed and beards being fluffed? Next week, Welling­ton plays host to the great­est most awe­some con­fer­ence in the world. Fact! We’ve already made some rec­om­men­da­tions of things for Web­stock atten­dees to do in Welling­ton, […]

The Restaurant Website Drinking Game

In our review of Capi­tol, we men­tioned how we go there despite the dread­ful­ness of their web­site (but you prob­a­bly missed that bit and cut straight to talk­ing about negro­nis). What espe­cial­ly is so bad about their site? There’s Flash, con­tact details hid­den, menus embed­ded that don’t even work prop­er­ly (can any­one tell me what […]

Fast, fresh, tasty and kind of awesome

On Thurs­day night, our old bowl­ing league arch nemi­si­si­sis bud­dies Click­Suite  launched a new iPhone and iPad app called Fast, Fresh and Tasty. We went along because we were promised food and drink, and you know how good that is at get­ting us to leave our hous­es, but we were pleas­ant­ly sur­prised by the app itself. Fast, […]