Xmas pud, boozy black forest….and a very Merry Xmas!
Mmmmm xmas. Holidays. Summer sun (we live in hope). And gelato. Graham Joe at Gelissimo has it all sorted. Small batch, hand crafted gelatos using Zany Zeus organic milk and real seasonal ingredients. Watch out for Gelissimo gelatos on menus around town where Graham and various chefs (Scopa for example) have collaborated to create a […]
Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards 2013 – Winners!
Congratulations to all the winners at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards last night. The awards recognise the best of 2013’s performances and craft in Wellington theatre. The big winners on the night were Trick of the Light Theatre who won Most Promising New Director, Outstanding New New Zealand Play, and Production of the Year for […]
Open for the holidays?
As a town of public servants, it seems like much of Wellington shuts down for a month from Christmas until Anniversary Day. People deserve holidays, sure, but if they have the misfortune of being back at work in the summer, they gotta be able to get coffee, right? We’re compiling a list of bar/cafe/restaurant holidays […]
Hot buttered coconut
Have you got your christmas nog on yet? Hot buttered coconut cocktail-in-a-mug from the beautiful people at The Hangar. A pretty delish way to celebrate the season. The WellingtonNZ.com advent calendar has all sorts of goodies on offer, many in the food and drink arena. Some other examples: Zibibbo half price tapas in the bar […]
Baghrir and Maamol
So this week I’m extending my Mediterranean food knowledge, courtesy of Lazeeza (Arabic for delicious) on Dixon Street in the former Simply Paris premises (beside Dixon Street Deli). Turkish, Lebanese, Greek and North African offerings, to name but a few. The cabinet food was educational and the brunch menu offered a few different twists (brioche french […]
feed the birds?
So you happen to live out west in the faulted hill-folds. One day a kākā lands on your deck railing and winningly bounces along and back. It is looking at you. It is looking for food. Its head bobs up and down. It knows you have some. Do you: A) put out a saucer of […]
Review: The Wind City
The latest book from local speculative fiction publishers Steam Press is the début novel of nineteen-year old Summer Wigmore. It’s a wonderful urban fantasy, set quite concretely in the very real environs of modern-day Wellington, but populated throughout with mythical characters and creatures from Maori folklore (collectively known as iwi atua). Our two main protagonists […]
Stop taking selfies and enter this photography competition instead
Carter Observatory, that big old bubble up on the hill, is running a photography contest with a buttload of prizes, and you should enter it. The title is “Light & Dark” and anything under that goes. Judges include Mark Gee, who you may remember from such moon photos as this. There’s a kids’ category too, […]
Zesty success
So I’m going to declare right up front that I work for Zest Food Tours of New Zealand before I congratulate them on 10 years of success this month. No mean feat in the sometimes-fickle tourism/hospitality industry. And rated one of the world’s top 10 Walking Tours for Globetrotting Foodies by Lonely Planet this year. […]