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Bright lights but tasty food at R&S Satay Noodle House

Over the past cou­ple of months I have been review­ing Malaysian restau­rants all around Welling­ton for Malaysia Kitchen (full dis­clo­sure – I got refund­ed some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! I have gone past R&S Satay Noo­dle House thou­sands of times in my life as it’s in a prime posi­tion but I’d nev­er […]

Wendy’s comes to town

There have been rumours for a while that a Wendy’s was com­ing to Welling­ton, and final­ly I received a report from the Kapi­ti: a Wendy’s had just opened in Para­pa­rau­mu. Wendy’s Old Fash­ioned Ham­burg­ers — not to be con­fused with the Aus­tralian ice cream par­lour chain Wendy’s Supa Sun­daes — is an Amer­i­can burg­er chain […]

We’ve got a craft fair tomorrow

Sat­ur­day is Elec­tion Day, but more impor­tant­ly (to me at least) it’s Christ­mas Knack Day. All I can assume is the PM woke up one morn­ing and thought “how can I make vot­ing more fun?”, and thus Elec­tion Day and Knack got mar­ried, and now you can get your craft on and vote all at […]

Everyone knows Wellington is a (Satay) Village

Over the past cou­ple of months I have been review­ing Malaysian restau­rants all around Welling­ton for Malaysia Kitchen (full dis­clo­sure – I got refund­ed some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! With so many Malaysian restau­rants to choose from in the cap­i­tal, some­times the deci­sion sim­ply comes down to where­abouts you are at any […]

Wellywood: blown away

So appar­ent­ly we vot­ed for the Welling­ton sign that’s being blown away. Nat­u­ral­ly, Rob­bie Ellis has even more to say about it.

The home of the schnapps election

‘Zum­wohl’ does­n’t sound like some­thing that orig­i­nates in Welling­ton, but it turns out that Ulf Fuehrer (appar­ent­ly a real name!) and his Aotearoa Dis­til­leries Ltd com­pa­ny that makes the award-win­n­ing schnapps are based right here. Add that loca­tion to our love of pub­lic ser­vants express­ing opin­ions, our twit­ter addic­tion, our mutu­al admi­ra­tion agree­ment with Pub­lic […]

Candidates: Jonathan Fletcher for National in Rimutaka

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? My name is Jonathan Fletch­er, I’m hon­est, hard­work­ing, com­pas­sion­ate and trust­wor­thy. I’m a hus­band […]

Little Bark — Party

Fri­day music video time. Here’s a new one from Welling­ton’s Lit­tle Bark. Lots more good Lit­tle Bark lis­ten­ing (and free down­loads) over at her band­camp page.

A very long menu at Long Bar

Over the past cou­ple of months I have been review­ing Malaysian restau­rants all around Welling­ton for Malaysia Kitchen (full dis­clo­sure – I got refund­ed some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! We made a book­ing at Long Bar because it was a Fri­day night, but giv­en the restau­ran­t’s Bran­don Street loca­tion in Lambton Quar­ter […]

Public Transport Spine survey, last days

Greater Welling­ton Region­al Coun­cil and Welling­ton City Coun­cil have part­nered with NZTA to inves­ti­gate the pub­lic trans­port cor­ri­dor that runs through the Welling­ton CBD, between the rail­way sta­tion and the region­al hos­pi­tal in New­town. The study is rea­son­ably com­pre­hen­sive: instead of look­ing at quick fix­es, it’s ask­ing what we should be doing in the long […]