Tag: meat

Graze at the Portlander

A cou­ple of weeks ago I was invit­ed by the love­ly peo­ple at the Port­lander to head in one freez­ing evening, along with a num­ber of Insta­gram­mers, to feast on their new graz­ing con­cept. From our sig­na­ture long bone OP rib-eye pre­sent­ed at your table, to our on the bone grass fed Sir­loin dry aged in house […]

A club that would have us as a member

Every­one has dif­fer­ent rea­sons for being in the Welling­ton­ista, and one of mine is that it means I get invi­ta­tions from love­ly peo­ple to do cool things. That’s all very well and good, but it could be a lit­tle alien­at­ing for you guys. So today, I’m going to tell you about a secret spe­cial club […]

Drunken conversations: Beth from Eat and Greet

Every­one who’s a drinker knows that the best con­ver­sa­tions hap­pen when you are plied with good food and good drinks, so I’ve decid­ed I’m going to inter­view some choice Welling­to­ni­ans after we have been imbib­ing togeth­er. First on the plate is Beth from Eat and Greet which launched last year and is doing a real­ly great […]

Any Portlander in a storm — a night at the Rydges

Ages ago we saw an ad in the paper for The Port­lander at Rydges Welling­ton  in the paper, and after look­ing at pic­tures of their burg­ers, we head­ed along there for lunch. The lamb burg­er was slow-cooked in duck fat, and it was deli­cious, crispy bits spilling out every­where. The onion rings were heav­en too, sec­ond only to […]

Some food-related things that are good right now

We went to Char­lotte, the new steak­house at 201 Cuba Street that is in the house with the check­ered past. The ser­vice was very friend­ly, and the steaks were cooked beau­ti­ful­ly. They are busy because they had a stu­pid­ly cheap Groupon deal, but it is worth mak­ing a reser­va­tion for, if you are of a […]

ALL of the meat

The time that car­niv­o­rous Welling­to­ni­ans have been drool­ful­ly antic­i­pat­ing has arrived: Big Bad Wolf has opened in Wake­field St. This is a char­cu­terie with a local twist, as their prod­ucts incor­po­rate wild game ani­mals along with the more famil­iar­pork, lamb and beef. Beasts that have giv­en their lives for a high­er pur­pose are vis­i­ble in […]

The power of Voodoo (who do?)

When we talked about the Rap­ture, we men­tioned Voodoo Restau­rant on Man­ners Street in brief, but that real­ly was­n’t enough. See­ing it’s got the Grabone treat­ment today (hur­ry! Only three hours left!), we do need to tell you just how damn deli­cious Voodoo is. In the wacked out Dis­ney­land atmos­phere of the old Harem, Voodoo is try­ing […]

Steak frites: does what it says on the box

If you’re after a clas­sic and hearty meal, then we hearti­ly rec­om­mend you hoof it to Le Met­ro­pol­i­tan on Cuba Street. In fact, we sug­gest you go there on Mon­day March 14 espe­cial­ly when they’re hav­ing a fundrais­er for Christchurch. How about I tell you about the din­ner I had there recent­ly in order to […]

Meat on Tory

We Welling­ton­ists are all veg­an of course… bacon is a veg­etable, right? But call­ing all car­ni­vores! — there’s a new place in Tory street you’ll prob­a­bly want to check out… STUFF : FOOD & WINE — STORY : Meat on Tory