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 […]