https://wellington.gen.nz/the-wellingtonista+restaurantsbars Items tagged with The Wellingtonista and Restaurants and Bars. https://wellingtonista.com/2021/01/19/a-couple-of-newish-bars/ Hey, remember when we used to be on top of all the openings and closings in town and filled with reviews? Yeah me neither. bars restaurantsbars blogs featured Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://wellingtonista.com/2021/01/19/a-couple-of-newish-bars/ The Wellingtonista 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2015/08/19/those-doughnuts/ 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. fastfood restaurantsbars blogs featured Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2015/08/19/those-doughnuts/ The Wellingtonista 2015-08-19T00:00:00Z -41.291401 174.774893070399 Volunteers' Corner, Feltex Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa http://wellingtonista.com/2015/03/09/something-fishy-in-thorndon/ Thorndon has a long history with greasies, including David Lange’s fish & chips brigade in 1980. thorndon fastfood places restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 09 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2015/03/09/something-fishy-in-thorndon/ The Wellingtonista 2015-03-09T00:00:00Z -41.2745396 174.7756309 Thorndon, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2014/10/07/new-nosh/ There’s a few new eating places of prominence opened or opening shortly for your (mostly) carnivorous pleasure. restaurants reviews restaurantsbars blogs featured Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2014/10/07/new-nosh/ The Wellingtonista 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2013/06/03/fairtrade-coffee-that-you-make-for-yourself/ Fairtrade Fortnight may be over, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something to still think about. coffee cafe restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2013/06/03/fairtrade-coffee-that-you-make-for-yourself/ The Wellingtonista 2013-06-03T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2013/03/07/nz-barista-championship-2013/ A bit slow on the up take but my excuse is, I haven’t had enough coffee. coffee cafe restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2013/03/07/nz-barista-championship-2013/ The Wellingtonista 2013-03-07T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2012/11/30/joanna-had-a-lot-of-silere-lamb-at-hummingbird/ 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. restaurants reviews restaurantsbars blogs featured Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/11/30/joanna-had-a-lot-of-silere-lamb-at-hummingbird/ The Wellingtonista 2012-11-30T00:00:00Z -41.2932704 174.78322815 Blair Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2012/10/18/horseplay/ We noticed the other day that Namastey in Dixon St had had a makeover. restaurants art restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/10/18/horseplay/ The Wellingtonista 2012-10-18T00:00:00Z -41.2907198941283 174.773360951595 Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2012/10/10/all-of-the-meat/ The time that carnivorous Wellingtonians have been droolfully anticipating has arrived: Big Bad Wolf has opened in Wakefield St. restaurants reviews restaurantsbars blogs featured Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/10/10/all-of-the-meat/ The Wellingtonista 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z -41.2924151721845 174.78262502932898 Wakefield Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2012/05/05/something-to-hum-about/ Hummingbird has been on Courtenay Place for a long time (twelve years!), and has just undergone a complete refurbishment. restaurants reviews restaurantsbars blogs featured Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/05/05/something-to-hum-about/ The Wellingtonista 2012-05-05T00:00:00Z -41.2935885 174.7826527 26 Courtenay Place http://wellingtonista.com/2012/01/26/the-restaurant-website-drinking-game/ 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). design restaurants business restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/01/26/the-restaurant-website-drinking-game/ The Wellingtonista 2012-01-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2012/01/24/capitol-opposite-of-punishment/ With a couple of family birthdays taking place over the holidays, January was a good time to assemble for dinner together. reviews restaurants mountvictoria restaurantsbars places blogs featured Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2012/01/24/capitol-opposite-of-punishment/ The Wellingtonista 2012-01-24T00:00:00Z -41.2970453 174.7874066 Mt. Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2011/12/02/bright-lights-but-tasty-food-at-rs-satay-noodle-house/ 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). reviews cubastreet restaurants places restaurantsbars blogs featured Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/12/02/bright-lights-but-tasty-food-at-rs-satay-noodle-house/ The Wellingtonista 2011-12-02T00:00:00Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/2011/11/17/a-very-long-menu-at-long-bar/ 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). reviews restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/11/17/a-very-long-menu-at-long-bar/ The Wellingtonista 2011-11-17T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/08/11/wop-a-deluge-of-dreadfulness-at-monsoon-poon/ Our mouths have been working overtime this week, with all the Wellington on a Plate action going around. reviews restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/08/11/wop-a-deluge-of-dreadfulness-at-monsoon-poon/ The Wellingtonista 2011-08-11T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/25/the-semi-naked-truth-strip-clubs-in-wellington/ So, you want to see some breasts. stripclubs restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/25/the-semi-naked-truth-strip-clubs-in-wellington/ The Wellingtonista 2011-07-25T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/12/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. reviews restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/07/12/the-power-of-voodoo-who-do/ The Wellingtonista 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/2011/06/13/cuckoo-for-caffeine/ 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”. waterfront coffee reviews cafe places restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/2011/06/13/cuckoo-for-caffeine/ The Wellingtonista 2011-06-13T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/debunking-the-target-urban-myth 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. restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/debunking-the-target-urban-myth The Wellingtonista 2010-09-28T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/viva-mexico-viva-zapata-in-fact-viva-my-lunch 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. restaurants cubastreet reviews restaurantsbars places blogs featured Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/viva-mexico-viva-zapata-in-fact-viva-my-lunch The Wellingtonista 2010-09-24T00:00:00Z -41.2937917 174.7754336 Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/social-barfly 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 bars restaurantsbars blogs featured Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/social-barfly The Wellingtonista 2010-09-21T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/the-princess-and-the-sausage 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. restaurants fastfood restaurantsbars blogs featured Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/the-princess-and-the-sausage The Wellingtonista 2010-08-29T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/wop-review-the-35-lunch-at-foxglove  Sometime last week I took my sister to lunch at Foxglove. restaurants reviews restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/wop-review-the-35-lunch-at-foxglove The Wellingtonista 2010-08-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/eat-and-eat-and-eat-win-a-voucher-for-the-occidental 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 restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/eat-and-eat-and-eat-win-a-voucher-for-the-occidental The Wellingtonista 2010-08-12T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/noodle-noodle-noodle 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....                   waterfront events restaurants places restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/noodle-noodle-noodle The Wellingtonista 2010-07-26T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/maranui-v2 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. cafe maranui lyallbay restaurantsbars places blogs featured Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/maranui-v2 The Wellingtonista 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z -41.3305426 174.793437 Maranui Cafe, Lyall Bay Parade, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6022, New Zealand http://wellingtonista.com/leaving-a-paper-trail 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.  bars restaurantsbars blogs featured Fri, 14 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/leaving-a-paper-trail The Wellingtonista 2010-05-14T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/review-lagerfield 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. reviews bars restaurantsbars blogs featured Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/review-lagerfield The Wellingtonista 2010-05-03T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/stone-in-the-bosom Shinobi Sushi Lounge is having two special kaiseki nights Monday and Tuesday this week. restaurants restaurantsbars blogs featured Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/stone-in-the-bosom The Wellingtonista 2010-04-11T00:00:00Z http://wellingtonista.com/flying-in-and-switching-off The Oaks complex sometimes seems like a hospitality Bermuda Triangle: fast-food joints and dodgy convenience stores jostle with bars of almost unrelenting crapness. coffee cafe restaurantsbars blogs featured Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellingtonista.com/flying-in-and-switching-off The Wellingtonista 2010-03-28T00:00:00Z