TAWA5 Best Drink in Town

Welling­ton is full of bars, and those bars are full of drinks (and drunks). But if you only want the very best in your mouth, this is what you’ll be order­ing.

TAWA5 Best Suburban Destination

The sub­urbs. Love them or loathe them, they sur­round every city. And loathing the sub­urbs out of some sort of twist­ed inner-city-cen­tric impulse is pret­ty short-sight­ed – espe­cial­ly when you could be enjoy­ing the fol­low­ing:

TAWA5 Best Contribution to the Internet from Wellington

Giv­en that Welling­ton is the web cap­i­tal of New Zealand, it makes sense that it’s full of peo­ple doing awe­some things with and for the web.

TAWA5 Best Event

There’s always some­thing to do in this town we love, but these are the pick of the crop, and are cir­cled in red on our cal­en­dars. We’re count­ing the sleeps until next year’s events!

TAWA5 Best Late Night Experience

Things get a lit­tle dif­fer­ent in town once the sun goes down. For many, includ­ing us, this is the best time of day. What do we do in the dark­ness? Well that would be telling, but these are the places you’ll find us.

TAWA5 Best Shopping Experience

Stuff, glo­ri­ous stuff,  oh how we love to take you home with us.  These are the places we go to win­dow lick, tire kick and buy, buy, buy.  Love your work, peo­ple.

TAWA5 Most Missed

We loved you… and then you were gone. When will we see you again? When will we share those pre­cious moments? (etc etc.) Here are some great Welling­ton things we miss:

TAWA5 Best Outdoors Experience

Some­times, we need to look up from that mon­i­tor and get our­selves some Vit­a­min D from the big solar dis­penser. Here are some of our favourite out­doors places:

TAWA5 Best Service

What makes a cafe/bar/restaurant a place to you want to return to over and over again? Sim­ple. It is peo­ple, it is peo­ple, it is peo­ple. And these are some of the finest peo­ple in town.

TAWA5 Most Needed

We love this town. But, and we’d nev­er admit this to any­one not-from-here, there are a few things that we could do with in Welling­ton. Here’s some of them: