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 […]