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(Almost) Live, from Mighty Mighty, we relay to you the res­ults of the First Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in the Field of Excel­lence!

Compered (and com­ment­ary) by Wel­ling­tonista’s own Jo Hubris!

1. When I am not hav­ing a mar­tini, I like to drink a:
There were clearly only two real con­tenders for this award, although vari­ous stay-at-home type people thought that their write-in res­ults were more worthy. Per­haps it was­n’t clear enough that the cat­egory was basic­ally “best cock­tail” as people nom­in­ated ven­ues without a spe­cif­ic drink. In the end, it came down to a one point dif­fer­ence. The run­ner-up was a Fall­ing Water at the Mat­ter­horn,
And the win­ner is: a caipirinha at Havana.

2. I spent all my rent money on din­ner here, but at least when the bailiffs beat me to death I will die bliss­fully:
If the Wel­ling­tonista ever goes in pur­suit of the almighty advert­ising dol­lar, we prob­ably don’t want to let on what some of our read­ers rated as an expens­ive eat­ing exper­i­ence. In the end, the res­ult was­n’t too sur­pris­ing. The run­ner-up was Fran­cois,
And the win­ner is Logan Brown.

3. I found $20 in my flat­mate’s room, so it’ll be din­ner at:
People who nom­in­ated their favour­ite Malay­si­an res­taur­ants got coun­ted as a vote for Malay­si­an any­where, because there are so damn many Malay­si­an places in town. Not that we’re com­plain­ing about that. The run­ner-up, Sweet Mother­’s Kit­chen had a good show­ing, but in the end was obvi­ously defeated by those damn Asi­an crim­in­als that Deborah Cod­ding­ton believes are invad­ing New Zea­l­and.
And the win­ner is Malay­si­an any­where.

It is with great pride and pleas­ure that we announce the nom­in­ees for the First Annu­al Wel­ling­tonista Awards for Out­stand­ing Achieve­ment in the Field of Excel­lence.

The Wel­ling­tonista have sweated and slaved over the cat­egor­ies, and now it is your turn for action. Step up and send us your votes before Novem­ber 30. The awards will be announced in an elab­or­ate* cere­mony on Fri­day Decem­ber 1 which we would love for you to attend.

Why should you vote? Because your opin­ion counts. And so that you’ll receive an invit­a­tion to the awards. And because you’ll go in to the draw to win awe­some prizes, includ­ing but not neces­sar­ily lim­ited to good­ies from Baby­li­cious, signed cop­ies of 101 Stor­ies That I Want To Tell You, tasty salads from Kapai (dis­claim­er: we wrote nice things about them before they offered up prizes), stun­ning tshirts, signed pho­tos of The Drop­kicks and lifelong Coun­try Club mem­ber­ship.

The cat­egor­ies are after the jump, and nom­in­ees are sug­ges­tions only – you’re free to write-in your win­ners.