Family-owned Naumi Hotels open Naumi Studio Hotel on Cuba Street

There’s been a hotel on Cuba Street for as long as I can remem­ber.  In sixth form my very dar­ing sex-hav­ing friend booked her­self and her boyfriend a room at Trekkers Hotel for after our ball at Cuba Cuba (but she end­ed up get­ting too drunk to leave the room).  In the mid naugh­ties, we […]

Review: The Human Voice (La voix humaine)

TW: Sui­cide Jean Cocteau wrote La Voix Humaine in 1928 as a one-act play.  Fran­cis Poulenc set it to music 30 years lat­er, despite hav­ing already known Cocteau well for years, and gave the rea­son for the delay as hav­ing need­ed more life expe­ri­ence to do it jus­tice.  Dur­ing those years he strug­gled with depres­sion […]

Don’t feed dogs chocolate — put it in beer instead

Guest post by Krys­tle, thanks Krys­tle! Cof­fee, choco­late, and beer…these are a few of Welling­to­ni­ans’ favorite things — and thanks to a col­lab, you can now drink a fusion of all three. Local leg­ends Black Dog Brew­ery and Welling­ton Choco­late Fac­to­ry have teamed up to pro­duce the Bean Me Up Mocha Stout. You may be […]

A sausagefest with Harrington’s at Logan Brown

As should be obvi­ous by now, we love a free din­ner here at the Welling­ton­ista. So when we were invit­ed by Harrington’s Small­go­ods to din­ner at Logan Brown, of course we said yes. It end­ed up being one of the more inter­est­ing din­ners I’ve been to in my life so this review is going to […]

Reviewing the review: Veni Vedi Vici

Welling­ton has one dai­ly news­pa­per, and that news­pa­per has one restau­rant crit­ic, who cer­tain­ly has his own… dis­tinc­tive style. The Fly has decid­ed that David Bur­ton needs some account­abil­i­ty. We’re giv­ing him his own series. The review from March 14  David Bur­ton is more world­ly than you: 5/5 “Veni Vidi Vici may eas­i­ly roll off the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

KK’s A‑OK

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! The Malaysia Kitchen Pro­gramme has done its best to keep me sober by con­tin­u­ing to send me to unli­censed restau­rants, but final­ly I […]

My kingdom for some booze with my satay!

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! Satay King­dom (Shop 212, Left Bank, Welling­ton) is named by many peo­ple in Welling­ton as their favourite Malaysian because of its prices. It […]