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Best of the last little while – June 2024

Hey, guess who’s been too busy with oth­er brain things to update this for a while? That’d be me. But let’s not waste time on it. Here’s the best things for a while.  Best behaved weath­er of the week Nice weath­er on a pub­lic hol­i­day allow­ing us to sit out­side around a fire and set […]

Best of the week: May 11–18 2024

A new weekly fea­ture! Here’s what was good! Hope­fully future edi­tions will include bests from oth­er Wel­ling­tonista mem­bers too. And don’t for­get, if you want to con­trib­ute to the site, please email us! Best delivered food of the week The grilled lem­on­grass chick­en salad from Rock Yard (pic­tured here with slow cooked pork in roti […]

Keeping warm with carb-on-carb

It’s winter, which means the Wel­ling­tonista’s thoughts turn to warm­ing food to warm ourselves up. What’s more warm­ing than the lovely hug of car­bo­hydrates? The double hug of at least two kinds of carbs at once! With that in mind, here are some of our favour­ite carb-on-carb exper­i­ences in Wel­ling­ton: Mac’n cheese sliders at Pickle. […]

Six Barrels totally instagrammable but also delicious

You know how we feel about Monterey, so it should be no sur­prise to you that we were very very excited when we heard that Joseph was open­ing up a new fact­ory in which to bottle his deli­cious syr­ups, which is also a cafe too.  Six Bar­rel Soda Co has found a home in the […]

It’s Shrove Tuesday, let’s talk religion!

Ha ha ha, of course we’re kid­ding. Let’s talk about pan­cakes instead.We wanna know where Wel­ling­ton’s best pan­cakes are at. Today for lunch I went to Cafe Panama (in fact, I am still there. Woo!), and this is what I ate: I thought I was order­ing stand­ard pan­cakes with banana and bacon for $11.50, but […]

WOP: let’s hear it for the Floyd

I have clearly timed career moves badly, because in the hungry wait for Wel­ling­ton on a Plate I was unem­ployed and spent large parts of the day dream­ing about where and what I would eat, but now it’s on, I have a tem­por­ary job and it’s not in the CBD. Dis­aster! How­ever, it turned out […]

The odyssey of Mr Reasonable

Loc­al blog­ger Mr Reas­on­able plans to com­bine his whizzo geek toys and dan­ger­ously obsess­ive love of cof­fee into an caf­feine fuelled odys­sey of live blog­ging from cafés in the besuited end of town: I am going to vis­it a dif­fer­ent Wel­ling­ton Cafe every day next week, order a decent Lat­té, take a photo of said […]