NZ’s longest running outdoor cinema

It’s that time of year again. Some mega out­door film view­ing action lies ahead for the Wel­ling­ton region. Let’s all raise our faces sky­ward in the hope the weath­er comes to the party this year as the line-up is the right mix of clas­sic, con­tem­por­ary and fun! Kick­ing off  THIS Thursday 6 Feb­ru­ary AT *6:30PM […]

Dessert anyone?

I’ve been think­ing about the fab­ulous desserts I’ve had in recent times around Wel­ling­ton (promp­ted by anoth­er couple of really good inhal­ings over the week­end). I think we’re pretty spoilt with the num­ber and vari­ety of options frankly. Some that stick in my mind (and I do con­fess to eat­ing a few, so these truly […]

Webstock 2014 Wednesday Warmup with the Wellingtonista and Web Drive

It’s that spe­cial time again! For the fifth year in a row, we’d like to invite you to come and have a drink with us before the Web­stock con­fer­ence. You know the deal with this by now – it’s not an offi­cial Web­stock event but they like us, and it IS an offi­cial Wel­ling­tonista event. […]

Mighty Mighty RIP

Not sure quite what to add so just going to post the Mighty Mighty offi­cial mes­sage here. Wail at will. The ‘Castle that Cares’, Wel­ling­ton bar Mighty Mighty will be clos­ing its doors at the end of May 2014. The insti­tu­tion opened on 11 Novem­ber 2006 in a former Pakistani res­taur­ant at the top of […]

Grab yer kilt…

A little bird­ie told me there’s a Scot­tish degust­a­tion some­time in the near future at the Copthorne Ori­ent­al’s One80 res­taur­ant. So a bit of dig­ging around uncovered the menu and price (here) and the date (this Sat­urday 25th Janu­ary). Cock-a-leekie soup, hag­gis, neeps, short­bread and clootie dump­lings, just to name a few delights.  All matched […]

A bunch of reasons to get outdoors

Look at that weath­er. Just LOOK AT IT. Woah! We’re going to assume from all the cars parked in Thorndon that you’re already going to Garden Magic events in the dell as part of  Sum­mer City,but here are some oth­er things you might wanna con­sider: Pos­it­ively Pasi­fika: The win­ner of New Zea­l­and Idol is going, […]

A true brew

For those who love cold cof­fee on a hot day (finally!) or just want to have a bottle of decent caf­feine on hand for those days when you can’t get out for a cof­fee, barista Akle­sha has opened a small True Brew cof­fee bar up in the Grand Arcade doing single ori­gin ‘manu­al brew­ing’ (no […]

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 […]