Say it ain’t so – the Chocolate Fish to close

Waiter Crossing - The Chocolate Fish, Scorching Bay (Wellington, NZ)Using the won­ders of mod­ern tech­no­logy and the inter­web we here at Wellin­gonsita Towers have dis­covered that The Chocol­ate Fish over at Scorch­ing Bay is set to close.

Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Don’t believe us – read this art­icle from Stuff.co.nz:

Wel­ling­ton’s land­mark Chocol­ate Fish Cafe is to close at the end of the year, hit by rising rent and coun­cil com­pli­ance costs.

So what can we do – find out after the break

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