The Wellingtonista and Restaurants and Bars
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A couple of new(ish) bars
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- Hey, remember when we used to be on top of all the openings and closings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me neither.
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those doughnuts
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- The doughnut popup web page said Wednesday! Leeds Street Bakery! Rhubarb and cream! Salted caramel and bacon! Chocolate and hazelnut! This all sounded pretty promising.
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Volunteers' Corner, Feltex Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Something fishy in Thorndon
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- Thorndon has a long history with greasies, including David Lange’s fish & chips brigade in 1980.
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Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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New nosh
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- There’s a few new eating places of prominence opened or opening shortly for your (mostly) carnivorous pleasure.
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Fairtrade coffee that you make for yourself
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- Fairtrade Fortnight may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something to still think about.
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NZ Barista Championship 2013
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- A bit slow on the up take but my excuse is, I haven’t had enough coffee.
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Joanna had a lot of (Silere) lamb (at Hummingbird)
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- A couple of weeks ago, I went for dinner at Hummingbird, and as well as eating fish tacos with my girlfriend (oh grow up!), we ordered the Lamb for Two.
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Blair Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Horseplay
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- We noticed the other day that Namastey in Dixon St had had a makeover.
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Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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ALL of the meat
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- The time that carnivorous Wellingtonians have been droolfully anticipating has arrived: Big Bad Wolf has opened in Wakefield St.
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Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand
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Something to hum about
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- Hummingbird has been on Courtenay Place for a long time (twelve years!), and has just undergone a complete refurbishment.
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26 Courtenay Place
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The Restaurant Website Drinking Game
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- In our review of Capitol, we mentioned how we go there despite the dreadfulness of their website (but you probably missed that bit and cut straight to talking about negronis).
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Capitol opposite of punishment
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- With a couple of family birthdays taking place over the holidays, January was a good time to assemble for dinner together.
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Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Bright lights but tasty food at R&S Satay Noodle House
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- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A very long menu at Long Bar
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- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs).
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Rasa Malaysia – top eats near the top’o Cuba
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- Over the past couple of months I have been reviewing Malaysian restaurants all around Wellington for Malaysia Kitchen (full disclosure – I got refunded some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! A freezing southerly was blowing around Wellington when I met with a group of friends at Rasa Malaysia on Upper Cuba Street, pushing all thoughts of trying something new out of my mind. The weather meant I had to have my favourite laksa.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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WOP: A deluge of dreadfulness at Monsoon Poon
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- Our mouths have been working overtime this week, with all the Wellington on a Plate action going around.
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The semi-naked truth: Strip clubs in Wellington
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- So, you want to see some breasts.
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The power of Voodoo (who do?)
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- 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.
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cuckoo for caffeine
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- You may be wandering along the waterfront later in the year when a crowd of large gentlemen in colourful cotton knit shirts may ask for directions to something called the “RWC Party Zone”.
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Debunking the Target urban myth
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- For the past couple of years, we keep hearing people tell us not to go to a certain ethnic restaurant because “they were filmed by Target scraping leftover food back into the food to sell” and various other stories along the same lines.
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Viva Mexico, viva Zapata, in fact viva my lunch
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- I was out with my Dad and my daughter today and needed to find lunch for three generations of Judds in the Cuba St area.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Social Barfly
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- The Masked Barfly has been busy in the last little while soaking up the scene and hanging around the hors d'oeuvres in our buzzy little town. As could be expected the Masked Barfly favours fecund environs where one can imbibe a good compost of booze, blood and guts, gossip and culture. Some bullets of buzz: read more
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The Princess and the Sausage
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- Most "pop-up shops" emerge in vacant retail spaces, but The Princess' Bedroom was different: the shop itself popped up, in the form of a brightly-painted caravan in a gravelly old Ghuznee St carpark.
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WOP Review: the $35 lunch at Foxglove
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- Sometime last week I took my sister to lunch at Foxglove.
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Eat and eat and eat: win a voucher for the Occidental
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- Congratulations to Richard who you will find hiding away at Munchen Burger getting his borsct on. This week we've got our last prize to give away, thanks to celebrate Wellington on a Plate, thanks to the lovely Positively Wellington Tourism, we have a $100 voucher to The Occidental to give away.read more
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Noodle noodle noodle
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- Not that it needs any pimping by us, but thought you should know that Wagamama in the Meridian building on the Waterfront is giving away free noodles today from 12 - 2.00pm. We are talking don buri, udon and beef noodle salad here people, well worth waiting in line for if you have the time. Behold the line at 11.30am last year....
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Maranui v2
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- It's a cold, rainy Tuesday afternoon in the first day of winter. Why, it's a perfect day to go to the beach! The occasion is the first day of business for the back-from-the-dead Maranui Cafe. After being damaged in a fire last year, escaping the threat of demolition and managing to keep not just the building intact but also the business, the cafe has been reborn, like a phoenix rising from a pile of coffee grounds and sand.
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Maranui Cafe, Lyall Bay Parade, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Leaving a paper trail
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- We've raved about Monterey Bar before, but just quickly, we want to point you to their blog on which they display the best of the artworks drawn on their paper-covered tables. You have to wonder about what was going on when this divorce settlement was written, or what exactly is wrong with these tights - but I could tell you the backstory to Senor Handsome if you ask nicely.
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Review: Lagerfield
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- Last year, for the second time in a row, Team Wellingtonista won the Webstock Pub Quiz (we intend to win it this year too, by the way). Our prize was a $300 tab for Lagerfield at 21 Blair Street. Having been there late at night when it was full of munters, I was not overwhelmed with enthusiasm, but as it turns out, it was a lovely experience.
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Stone in the bosom
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- Shinobi Sushi Lounge is having two special kaiseki nights Monday and Tuesday this week.
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