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 Art Experience

Art exper­i­ences often don’t require wordy explan­a­tions, but whatever these exper­i­ences could be classed as, they def­in­itely moved us.

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.

TAWA5 Best Live Performance

Wel­ling­ton is a great going-out town with gigs galore on any giv­en night. These are the events that stuck with audi­ences and totally made us blab all over Face­book about how awe­some they were.

All about this year’s The Annual Wellingtonista Awards

Hello, my love­lies! For the fifth year in a row, it’s time for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (#TAWA5). This post is your guide to everything TAWA-related. Time to get your vote on since VOTING IS NOW OPEN!

TAWA5 – a call for your nomination suggestions

Hello, good people of Wel­ling­ton. It is time, once again for The Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards! Wahoo! This year we are refer­ring to them as #TAWA5, for all your twit­ter­ing needs. Once again, we would like your sug­ges­tions for what you would like nom­in­ated in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies, which you will be able to vote for […]

2007 AWAs Photos

Yeah, that’s our boy Hadyn hangin’ with Gio­vanni Ribisi at last week’s AWAs held at the mighty Mighty Mighty. Flight of the Conchord’s Bret was there as well, to accept the Wel­ling­to­ni­an of the Year award, and Blam Blam Blam played and were awe­some.

Oh yes, the Trendy Urb­an Class* were out in force to cel­eb­rate all that is good (and a little bad) about our fair city at last week’s Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards.

For more pho­tos, head over here, where offi­cial pho­to­graph­er Mike has uploaded his pix from the even­ing.

* © Domin­ion Post.

Awards results…

  • Best Drink in Town: Neg­roni at Hawthorn Lounge with man­dar­in-infused gin
  • Best Late-Night Ven­ue: Mighty Mighty
  • Best Cheap Eats: Satay King­dom
  • Best un-Cheap Eats: Mat­ter­horn
  • Best Sub­urb­an Ven­ue: Karori Wild­life Sanc­tu­ary – Karori
  • Best Break­fast: Epic
  • Best Loc­al Cof­fee Beans: Mojo
  • Best Non-Drink­ing Ven­ue: Wel­ling­ton water­front on a sunny week day
  • Best Appar­el Store: Madame Fancy Pants
  • Best Shop: Unity Books
  • Best Build­ing: Wel­ling­ton Cent­ral Lib­rary
  • Best Cul­tur­al Ven­ue: Film Archive
  • Best Pub­lic Space: The Botan­ic Gar­dens
  • Best Pub­lic Art: The install­a­tions along the way to the Air­port
  • Most Needed: Light rail to the air­port
  • Hot­test Hospo of the Year: The staff at Mighty Mighty
  • Wel­ling­ton Supervil­lain of the Year: Kerry Pren­derghastly
  • Best 2007 Wel­ling­ton-based Event: Cuba St Car­ni­val
  • Best Dub Dub Dub­ber: “Crack­er” – Dami­an Christie
  • Wel­ling­to­ni­an of the Year: Jemaine and Bret aka. Flight of the Conchords

Hearty con­grat­u­la­tions to all our win­ners

2AWA: Wellington Supervillan of the Year

Here are the nom­in­ees for the Wel­ling­ton Supervil­lain of the Year cat­egory for the Second Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards (2AWA). Who con­trols the traffic lights? Who keeps start­ing gram­mar fights? They do, they do Who keeps buses off the maps? Who keeps lightrail under wraps? They do, they do Who’s in love with John McGrath? Who thinks only of the […]