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 […]