Observed on Featherston Street

Spot­ted on Feath­er­ston Street in the win­dow of Espres­so Repub­lic. Could this be the work of a dis­grun­tled land­lord?

TAWA5 Best Regular Entertainment

As we know, Welling­ton is full of fun things to do, and on a reg­u­lar basis. Whether giv­ing us some­thing to eat, some­thing to groove to, or some­thing to yell about, these are the events that kept us com­ing back for sec­onds.

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!

Here kitty, kitty

So the race is on. The first 500 free tick­ets to the Tiger Trans­late event hit­ting town next Fri­day 26 Novem­ber have been snapped up BUT a sec­ond release of tick­ets has been announced. Head to HeyTiger to get tick­ets to this FREE! event at the Opera House (and Opera House lane) fea­tur­ing a true […]

Pecha Kucha 9

This Mon­day is anoth­er Pecha Kucha Night, where a fine line-up of cre­ative peo­ple present short talks on top­ics they love. But this time it’s a Welling­ton­ista spe­cial! We have two of the W’ista posse (Robyn* and Dan) giv­ing talks. But we’re also excit­ed about Leimo­mi Oakes’s talk on roy­al undies, Mike Brown’s explo­ration of […]