Espressoholics – The Final Countdown

Barista com 002Hadyn wrote about the Nation­al Barista Awards a few days ago.

At the edge of cut­ting edge blog­ging is the intre­pid moi to report on action at the scene.

It is tense — well, not real­ly, but it seemed an appro­pri­ate thing to say.

It is black. Well the peo­ple there are all in black, with­out excep­tion, com­peti­tors and spec­ta­tors alike.

It is free.

So get down there NOW. Have a cof­fee (free), lis­ten to the DJ (free). Have a ball (price­less).

Lev­el 3, Te Papa

Mystery bar number 35

There are plen­ty of issues I could be writ­ing about today, such as whether the Har­bour Quays devel­op­ment will suck the life out of the CBD, the mer­its of the new Cathryn Mon­ro sculp­ture planned to go out­side the Musuem Hotel, and of course the end­less trans­port debates. How­ev­er, I seem to have got into a pleas­ant­ly intox­i­genic mode this week, so it’s time for anoth­er mys­tery bar.

mysterious

read on…

More drinking in Wellington

Far and away our most pop­u­lar post in the last wee while was Jo’s ‘Drink­ing Welling­ton on the Cheap’ from last week. Dis­cus­sion of water­ing holes around Welling­ton seems to be a pop­u­lar top­ic, as Stephen of Dork­ing Labs’ ‘Drinks After Work’ has joined in with his own bar review, the first of what he […]

Drinking Wellington on the Cheap

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Drink Me!

New York has the Man­hat­tan, and Metrop­o­lis has the Met­ro­pol­i­tan, but what is Welling­ton’s sig­na­ture drink? In order to answer that ques­tion, we here at the Welling­ton­ista Tow­ers have decid­ed to launch the search for the per­fect Welling­ton­ista. What’s in the drink, you ask? Well, that’s up to you. Yes, that’s right, it’s our very […]

Cabaret

Last night, unwind­ing from a hard week, we stopped by the new Cabaret out­fit adjoin­ing Chow on Tory Street to check out the enter­tain­ment. It’s a love­ly space — the decor is won­der­ful­ly ele­gant: dark wood­en tables, wood lou­vres, beau­ti­ful car­pet and remark­able light­shades. There’s a warm red back­drop to the stage where I saw […]

investing for the future

There are many kinds of invest­ments avail­able on the mar­ket today: putting a lit­tle some­thing aside for lat­er can be very reward­ing. One of our favourite kinds is a bot­tle or two of nice wine. And where bet­ter to source your invest­ment than just over the hill from Welling­ton, in Mar­t­in­bor­ough? Set aside a Sun­day. […]