WOAP: Dining through the Decades

This is going to sound a bit sil­ly, but I choose my Welling­ton on a Plate events look­ing for val­ue for mon­ey.  The sil­ly part, obvi­ous­ly, is that no one needs to drop over a hun­dred dol­lars a head on din­ner, but if you’re look­ing to have a degus­ta­tion and matched wines, you’re going to spend […]

Dessert anyone?

I’ve been think­ing about the fab­u­lous desserts I’ve had in recent times around Welling­ton (prompt­ed by anoth­er cou­ple of real­ly good inhal­ings over the week­end). I think we’re pret­ty spoilt with the num­ber and vari­ety of options frankly. Some that stick in my mind (and I do con­fess to eat­ing a few, so these tru­ly […]

Visiting old friends…

I feel like I’ve been vis­it­ing old friends this week, while I wait for some new ones to arrive. A Deluxe cafe cook­ie, a Nikau brunch, a Zibib­bo plat­ter, and a Capi­tol break­fast (can you tell it was a teenage-free week­end??). My cook­ie at Deluxe was enlivened by an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion with a fel­low cus­tomer […]