Here are the nom­i­nees for the Best Late-Night Venue cat­e­go­ry for the 2nd Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards (2AWA).

When even Win­ston Peters has gone to bed, the best bar to go to is:

Sure, town is bang­ing and hum­ming around mid­night. But what if the bar you’re in starts clos­ing and you’re not ready to go home yet? Where do you head to then?

(nom­i­nees after the jump)

Here are the nom­i­nees for the Best Drink cat­e­go­ry for the 2nd Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards (2AWA).

When I am not hav­ing a mar­ti­ni, I like to drink a___

There are many many places offer­ing many many cock­tails in Welling­ton, but we want to know what the very best of them is. There’s a par­ty in our col­lec­tive mouth, and these drinks are invit­ed…

(nom­i­nees after the jump)

The Welling­ton­ista is ridicu­lous­ly pleased to announce the Sec­ond Annu­al Welling­ton­ista Awards. We’ve cut down the pre­vi­ous­ly insane­ly long title because of all the excite­ment and adven­ture that we need to fit in. And hooooooooooo boy, we’ve got some excit­ing things going on. Here’s what’s going to hap­pen:

1. Over the next week, we’ll announce the cat­e­gories and the nom­i­nees in a series of posts, with a lit­tle bit of a blurb about why we chose them. We’ll also make sure to pro­vide you with a handy map and direc­tions so you can get out there and check out all the nom­i­nees.
2. We’ll open up online vot­ing on Novem­ber 19, Vot­ing is now open, so you get to have your say. We’ll ask you to include a name and email address so that a) you don’t cheat and b) if you come along to the awards night, you;ll be up for some fan­tas­tic prizes.
3. We’ll close vot­ing on Decem­ber 4.
4. On Thurs­day Decem­ber 6, we’ll announce the win­ners at a huge big stonk­ing par­ty, in asso­ci­a­tion with some oth­er very very awe­some peo­ple who we’ll tell you about as soon as every­thing is locked down (and let me just say, I’m kin­da wet­ting my pants in glee about it all). We’d love you to come along to our awards and par­ty with us, please. You won’t regret it. Except for in the morn­ing. But after you’ve had anoth­er cof­fee you’ll be fine with it.

Also, this year, at the awards, we will be ask­ing those of you who can to make a dona­tion to the Down­town Com­mu­ni­ty Min­istry, and here’s why:

• We love this city, right? And so there­fore, it is impor­tant that we actu­al­ly do good things for it, as well as talk­ing about it all the time.
• We eat and drink to excess, and it’s awe­some that we cel­e­brate that, but it might be nice if we think about the peo­ple who have dif­fi­cul­ty eat­ing, or who have prob­lems with drink­ing.
• Blan­ket Man was vot­ed Favourite Welling­ton­ian at the Welling­ton­ista Awards last year. How about we give some atten­tion to the not-so-vis­i­ble home­less peo­ple?

So get out there and start check­ing out our nom­i­na­tions as we put them up, and then come back and vote when we open it up on Novem­ber 19. Yay!

Nom­i­na­tions cur­rent­ly include:

• Best drink
• Best shop
• Best late-night venue
• Best pub­lic art
• Best cof­fee beans
• Best Welling­ton Web Writer
• Welling­ton Supervil­lan of the Year
• Best build­ing
• Most Need­ed
• Best cul­tur­al venue
• Best appar­el store
• Best uncheap eats
• Best break­fast
• Best pub­lic space
• Best cheap eats
• Welling­ton­ian of the year
• Best non­drink­ing venue
• Hottest hospo of the year
• Best sub­ur­ban venue
• Best Welling­ton-based event