Ortega Fish Shack’s Davey McDonald

This guest piece from Alex­an­der Bis­ley Dav­ey McDon­ald, the affable 29-year-old fath­er of two young kids, man­ages/co-owns Ortega Fish Shack and Bar. At the 2014 Cap­it­al Awards— the Wel­ling­ton region’s premi­er hos­pit­al­ity awards, voted by the industry— McDon­ald won Out­stand­ing Maitre’d of the Year, and Ortega won Best Front of House Team. Ortega was 2014 Run­­n­er-up […]

Hats off…

To Logan Brown (2 hats), Ortega Fish Shack, The Lar­der, Char­ley Noble and Taylors on Jack­son (1 hat each) – Logan Brown being the only non-Auck­­­land res­taur­ant to be awar­ded 2 hats in 2014 (rat­ing along­side Baduzzi and The Grill by Sean Con­nolly, and just one point below Masu and Kazuya). Well done Wel­ling­ton! Now what’s […]

TAWA5 Best Restaurant

Res­taur­ant din­ing is the sort of thing that you do on spe­cial occa­sions, but also any time you want some­thing to eat and you don’t mind spend­ing a little bit of time and per­haps a bit of money to do it. You might want to make a reser­va­tion in advance, and per­haps make sure that […]