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 […]

WOAP 2017: Portlander

The Port­lander at the Rydges Welling­ton is well-known for its beef — they are a steak restau­rant after all. So of course their newish head chef decid­ed to do a chick­en burg­er for Welling­ton on a Plate, because it was his chance to do some­thing dif­fer­ent. I was lucky enough to be invit­ed in to […]

WOAP ’16: a burger, a stew and a beer

The mad rush of eat­ing con­tin­ues, so with­out any fur­ther ado, let’s get into it. The Steakhold­er at Port­lander You know by now how we feel about the Port­lander, so of course this was going to be on my wish­list. “Medi­um rare rib eye with Scotty’s Meats dou­ble smoked bacon, fried egg, onions, melt­ed Te […]

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 […]

Another birthday, black pudding hotdogs, and 2:1 steak

The birth­day first.  Since I seem to be on a birth­day roll late­ly. Ti Kou­ka cel­e­brat­ed their 3rd birth­day on Fri­day just gone (well done guys). Even though I couldn’t make lunch with free bub­bles, I did man­age to grab deli­cious car­rot cake for after­noon tea (pure­ly for cel­e­bra­to­ry pur­pos­es you under­stand), and con­firm their […]