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 […]

A solo date with the mob

Have you been read­ing Solo Date City? This anonym­ous blog­ger is eat­ing her way around Wel­ling­ton alone, writ­ing gor­geously about both the exper­i­ence and the feel­ings that pro­pelled her to that res­taur­ant in the first place. I love to eat brunch or even lunch by myself, but din­ner not so much, so tonight I took […]

Some Italian jobs

1. The Medi­ter­ranean Ware­house in New­town has under­gone some renov­a­tions tak­ing out the wall sep­ar­at­ing the pizzer­ia from the ware­house, so now there’s an exten­ded deli counter and you dine among the shelves. The price of an indi­vidu­al pizza may have gradu­ally increased $4 over the past couple’o years but now you can get a bowl of […]