A very long menu at Long Bar

Over the past couple of months I have been review­ing Malay­si­an res­taur­ants all around Wel­ling­ton for Malay­sia Kit­chen (full dis­clos­ure – I got refun­ded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! We made a book­ing at Long Bar because it was a Fri­day night, but giv­en the res­taur­ant’s Brandon Street loc­a­tion in Lamb­ton Quarter […]

Eating outside my comfort box (heh)

Every­one knows that large cor­por­a­tions eat pup­pies, but what do the people who work for large cor­por­a­tions eat for lunch?

The Wel­ling­tonista is clos­ing down its Cour­tenay Place branch on Fri­day and is open­ing up in mid Lamb­ton Quay instead. After a year and a half down this way, we’d just finally got the good people at Saha­ra Kebabs to know that we like just a few onions and gar­lic yoghurt, tahini and hot chilli on our (mixed veget­ari­an, mujaver and falafel only) kebabs. Where are we going to eat now?

Left or right

Noth­ing more than a Wel­ling­ton obser­va­tion really but have you noticed how all the “good” shops are on the left-hand side of the road. “Good” being determ­ined by those that have buck­ets of money to spend on the flashest shop fronts – noth­ing to do with the qual­ity of ser­vice or products. And of course […]