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

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but there are cheap and/or free things for you to do every single day in Wel­ling­ton. Because Wel­ling­tonista not only loves Wel­ling­ton, but also YOU, we’ve com­piled a bit of a list for what you can do every day. Monday: If you go to Chow, […]

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. […]