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