Another craft beer bar for Wellington

Open­ing this Fri­day is anoth­er craft beer bar called Gold­ing’s Free Dive, at 14 Leeds Street. That’s right by Pizza Pomodoro, for those of you play­ing along at home, and they’ll be mak­ing full use of their loc­a­tion. Golding’s Free Dive con­veni­ently shares the court­yard with Pomodoro Pizza, which is just as well as Pomodoro will […]

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 […]

What not to wear to the sevens

It’s that time of year when people will call us buzzkills for not enjoy­ing hav­ing our streets extra-clogged with vomit and hav­ing all of our female friends feel extra unsafe on the streets because of all the doucheca­noes who think that because they’re wear­ing a cos­tume they can har­ass with impun­ity. But we’re not buzzkills, […]

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 do they want and how do they get there?

Rotary For­um has a ques­tion to ask. We have a rare oppor­tun­ity: Wel­ling­ton is what we make it and you can be part of shap­ing it. Now in its second suc­cess­ful year, this highly top­ic­al com­munity for­um asks; what kind of city and region do we want? How should com­munity views be expressed in loc­al […]

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 […]

The TAWAs are coming!

Grab your­self a great big vivid and mark off Decem­ber 8 as the day of The Sixth Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards. Now go ahead and scribble out the day after as well, as you will be too partied out to do any­thing then. Obvi­ously, we’re quiet because we have all kinds of plans afoot, but for […]

Tom Beard jumps the shark!

(Just kid­ding) Like par­ents – or how we ima­gine them to be – we are immensely proud when one of our snotty brats achieves recog­ni­tion for the things at which they excel. And in this case, Oor Tom has been fea­tured in the My Favour­ite Table sec­tion in Wed­nes­day’s Dom Post Cap­it­al Life sup­ple­ment, being recog­nised for […]

Superstar DJ

Happy brings back its Vinyl Fri­day ses­sions for 2011. Our own Tom Ack­royd will be spin­ning his 12 inches with vim and vigour from 5.30pm (until 7.30). Here is a little inform­a­tion about Tom (and the oth­er DJ on the night); “This week we have two incred­ibly excit­ing, cost-effi­­cient DJs: GREG COBB was born in […]