The Wellingtonista

Tag: Offbeat Originals

March 3, 2011

Offbeat is back!

The Off­beat Ori­gin­als story has a happy end­ing it seems – they are open for busi­ness, since Tues­day even. We can report that the fish­bur­gers are just as they always were. Pre­vi­ously: What happened? Most missed Signs of life And the ori­gin­al Wel­ling­tonista Off­beat review

Stephen J
Food & Drink
1 Comment
January 28, 2011

Offbeat is on

When Off­beat Ori­gin­als mys­ter­i­ously and sud­denly closed last year, we were ter­ribly update. Back in Octo­ber, a sign sadly advised that the joint was “closed until fur­ther notice”. We did­n’t hold out much hope, nom­in­at­ing Off­beat in the Most Missed cat­egory at the TAWAs. But today Wellin­gonista Tom spot­ted this new sign: Reopen­ing Feb­ru­ary? Yay! […]

Robyn
Food & Drink
2 Comments
November 20, 2010

TAWA5 Most Missed

We loved you… and then you were gone. When will we see you again? When will we share those pre­cious moments? (etc etc.) Here are some great Wel­ling­ton things we miss:

Alan
Architecture / Events / Festival / Food & Drink / Outdoors / TAWA
3 Comments
January 28, 2008

Bars and Bites

This is in the vein of The Wel­ling­tonista Bar Fly-les, but I thought I’d give it anoth­er name since it’s about food & cof­fee as well as drink.

  • Have I been unob­serv­ant, or has Off­beat Ori­gin­als only just star­ted offer­ing lamb as an option in their fam­ous bur­gers? And tapen­ade as an accom­pani­ment?! [insert drool­ing noises here]
  • The Buena Vista Social Club seems to have been suc­cess­ful as a cer­tain may­or­al cam­paign. It has closed (rather incon­veni­ently for cer­tain fringe shows), though it is appar­ently due to reopen as a gay bar called S&M. No com­ment.
  • If you’ve been put­ting off enjoy­ing Simply Par­is’ excel­lent cas­soulet, patis­ser­ie, Merguez frites baguettes or pain perdu by their bizarre choice of “Nespresso” in place of cof­fee, then rejoice! for they now have a prop­er espresso machine and Orb cof­fee. You’ll still have to put up with the twee décor and occa­sion­ally slow ser­vice, though the more than occa­sion­al hot­ness of their staff should make up for the lat­ter.
  • For­give me for shout­ing, but … TIKI TIKI TIKI! It’s not quite the prop­er Tiki Bar that the Wel­ling­tonista have long been gag­ging for, but Mat­ter­horn are hav­ing a Tiki Bar week­end this week­end, com­plete with vin­tage tiki mugs, dry ice, spe­cial cock­tails and silly hats.
Tom
Food & Drink
3 Comments