WOAP overload: a plum and a duke
I love Wellington on a Plate, especially when I ignore my bank balance and focus on ticking off as many lines as possible on my spreadsheet. I’ve got a couple more places to review still, but in the interests of actually getting to sleep tonight, I’ll just give you two – Plum and Duke Carvell’s. If […]
WOAP: Bake Club
The first rule of Bake Club is you have to talk about Bake Club. That splits off into subsections about using hashtags and Instagram. The second rule of Bake Club is that I suppose a link might be helpful. And the third rule is I’m going to put in a jump cut here. After the […]
Running down underground to a dive bar in Welly-town
A few Wellingtonistas recently had occasion to discuss the possibilities for getting a drink – a serious drink, mind, not a Mimosa or Bloody Mary – at 9:30am on a Monday. Now we’d hate to advocate heavy drinking to anyone (though it’s always worked for us), and none of our speculation should be seen as in any […]
now we’re cooking with fire
Leafing through the Wellington on a Plate catalog some months ago, one event in particular seemed to stand out for me. This was Cooking Over Fire, The Argentine Way, to be held at El Matador, the new “Café, Asador Grill & Bar” up Cuba Street. Asador is the Argentine national dish, a way of slow-cooking […]
Beer what you want to beer
It’s Choice Beer Week here in Wellington and last night The Sutton Group Brewers Guild of New Zealand Awards took place at the Michael Fowler Centre. Harrington’s Breweries of Christchurch took out the top honours and were named Champion Brewery in New Zealand for 2012. Wellington, being the self-claimed and now generally accepted Craft Beer […]
More WOAP: the bland, the sublime and the curious
As I said before, I’m working my way around the lunchtime Dine menus of places near my work. Here’s what I’ve got to report. 1. Vivant 2. Little Beer Quarter 3. Ti Kouka Cafe 4. Finc
Benefit Concert for The Court Theatre at Circa
Next Monday (20 August) a group of Wellington performers will be getting together to raise funds for The Court Theatre in Christchurch. Badly affected by the earthquakes (forced to abandon thirty-five years of sets, costumes, and scripts) The Court Theatre has opened again in a new venue affectionately called ‘the Shed’. They have a space […]
Wellington on a Plate so far
Wellington on a Plate opened on Friday. How’s it been for you so far? We’ve been trying to share people’s microreviews on Twitter, and of course @wellyonaplate will be even more informative, but I thought I’d do some proper writeups for you about what I’ve been eating. So, in chronological order: Dine menu at The […]
Review: West End Girls
The first job artist Barbara Tate had in Soho was in a bar. Soon she was charmed into working as a maid for Mae, a ‘glamorous West End Girl ‘. Ken Duncum has adapted Tate’s memoir about her time working for a prostitute in Soho. It’s fun and fizzy in the first half before things […]
Brancott all dressed up and ready to WOW you
We’ve really enjoyed going to the Brancott Estate World of WearableArt Awards Show over the past couple of years, back from when the naming rights sponsor had a different name. We’ve also really enjoyed wine over the past twenty years or so as well. Naturally, something that mixes the two is going to make us happy. Brancott […]