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 […]

You should have lunch at Duke Carvell’s this July

July would be a real­ly good time to have a week­day lunch at Duke Carvel­l’s on Swan Lane. Why? Because a) it’s deli­cious and warm­ing and b) they’ll donate 20% of your bill to one of a range of char­i­ties. Bloody good work! Our Tom B is the May­or of Duke Carvel­l’s (well, on Foursquare […]

We like to play games

You know how it goes — you have no food or booze in your home so you need to leave the house, so you text your friends to see if they want to meet you some­where, and so they do, and you get food and you get booze, and that’s a good thing, but then […]

Tom Beard jumps the shark!

(Just kid­ding) Like par­ents — or how we imag­ine them to be — we are immense­ly proud when one of our snot­ty brats achieves recog­ni­tion for the things at which they excel. And in this case, Oor Tom has been fea­tured in the My Favourite Table sec­tion in Wednes­day’s Dom Post Cap­i­tal Life sup­ple­ment, being recog­nised for […]

TAWA5 Best Restaurant

Restau­rant din­ing is the sort of thing that you do on spe­cial occa­sions, but also any time you want some­thing to eat and you don’t mind spend­ing a lit­tle bit of time and per­haps a bit of mon­ey to do it. You might want to make a reser­va­tion in advance, and per­haps make sure that […]