The power of Voodoo (who do?)

When we talked about the Rap­ture, we men­tioned Voo­doo Res­taur­ant on Man­ners Street in brief, but that really was­n’t enough. See­ing it’s got the Gra­bone treat­ment today (hurry! Only three hours left!), we do need to tell you just how damn deli­cious Voo­doo is. In the wacked out Dis­ney­land atmo­sphere of the old Har­em, Voo­doo is try­ing […]

A lake of laksa

As it’s get­ting colder, and we’re get­ting colds, the minds of the Wel­ling­tonista turn towards hot, spicy sat­is­fac­tion. For some of us (well, at least me), this means laksa. But where on earth in Wel­ling­ton can we find Malay­si­an food??? What’s that you say, on every second block? Okay, fine. But not all lak­sas are […]

Steak frites: does what it says on the box

If you’re after a clas­sic and hearty meal, then we heart­ily recom­mend you hoof it to Le Met­ro­pol­it­an on Cuba Street. In fact, we sug­gest you go there on Monday March 14 espe­cially when they’re hav­ing a fun­draiser for Christ­ch­urch. How about I tell you about the din­ner I had there recently in order to […]

More drinking in Wellington

Far and away our most pop­u­lar post in the last wee while was Jo’s ‘Drink­ing Wel­ling­ton on the Cheap’ from last week. Dis­cus­sion of water­ing holes around Wel­ling­ton seems to be a pop­u­lar top­ic, as Steph­en of Dork­ing Labs’ ‘Drinks After Work’ has joined in with his own bar review, the first of what he […]