Chasing the Black Dog with beer

Last night we went to the open­ing of the new Black Dog brew­ery on Cuba Street, and, spoil­er alert, it was bloody delight­ful. All pics were sup­plied by the pub­li­cist because if you fol­low us on Twit­ter, you’ll know I can­’t pho­to­graph for shit. A con­fes­sion: I had nev­er been to the old Black Dog […]

Something fishy in Thorndon

Thorndon has a long his­tory with greasies, includ­ing Dav­id Lange’s fish & chips bri­gade in 1980. I remem­ber buy­ing fish’n chips from that same store (where Cel­lar­vate is now, I believe) and eat­ing them on Par­lia­ment’s lawn after a big leg­al­ise can­nabis protest in high school (so I guess 1996?). Sadly that fish & chips […]

The Wellingtonista Socialite Part I

It’s been a ban­ner week here at the Wel­ling­tonista Towers for drink­ing net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies. Yes­ter­day was the VIP night at Beck­on, tonight was a Ponoko show­case at the Para­mount, and tomor­row we’re meet­ing up to dis­cuss our evil plans for world dom­in­a­tion.

Find out what we’ve been up to after the jump.