Eat. Drink. Power. People. Pods

Our Kris has been doing an AMAZING job with all her theatre reviews, while the rest of us slack off, so let me attempt to put that slightly more in bal­ance with one post about all the things I’ve been mean­ing to write about forever. Eat / Drink / Power / People / Pods Jano. Go […]

WOAP: Dining through the Decades

This is going to sound a bit silly, but I choose my Wel­ling­ton on a Plate events look­ing for value for money.  The silly part, obvi­ously, is that no one needs to drop over a hun­dred dol­lars a head on din­ner, but if you’re look­ing to have a degust­a­tion and matched wines, you’re going to spend […]

Joanna had a lot of (Silere) lamb (at Hummingbird)

A couple of weeks ago, I went for din­ner at Hum­ming­bird, and as well as eat­ing fish tacos with my girl­friend (oh grow up!), we ordered the Lamb for Two. What we got was lamb shank with couscous, char­grilled flat­breads, the cream­i­est hum­mus ever, baba gan­oush, some pickles and the most amaz­ingly tender and fla­vour­some […]

Some food-related things that are good right now

We went to Char­lotte, the new steak­house at 201 Cuba Street that is in the house with the checkered past. The ser­vice was very friendly, and the steaks were cooked beau­ti­fully. They are busy because they had a stu­pidly cheap Groupon deal, but it is worth mak­ing a reser­va­tion for, if you are of a […]