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 […]