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 […]