Author: Elliott
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Another Day in Paradise – Lulu Bar
You ever take a bite of something, and think ‘oh, this is special’? Maybe it’s something you’ve never tasted before, maybe it’s the perfect execution of something you love. And sometimes it’s a flavour you’d thought you’d forgotten and you get whisked back ratatouille-style to a corned beef and coconut paradise that you haven’t thought… Read more
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Hamlet – One Hour
NOTE: I have never seen Hamlet – Five Hours It’s very strange for me to have watched two Shakespeare plays in one week, both with wildly different approaches. Hamlet – One Hour, directed by Jo Marsh, is a futuristic dystopian take on the classic Shakesperean tragedy. The modernisation of the show is largely in its… Read more
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Ayam! In Wellington – Frankie’s Bar + Eatery
There’s a secret in fried chicken circles that’s pretty well kept. It’s that Taiwanese fried chicken is the best fried chicken. This is inarguable. Do not try. You will lose. The Ayam! In Wellington by Frankie’s Bar + Eatery is probably the only time I’ve seen Taiwanese fried chicken in Wellington. It’s got all the… Read more
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The Three Pointer – Gemini Café
I’m not a basketball person, but I know a slam dunk when I see one. Don’t be fooled by the sketch on the WOAP website, The Three Pointer by Gemini Café is as real as it gets when it comes to flavour and style. It’s a burger that many might skip over due to the… Read more
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Gimme a Coal – Keihei Chicken
I really like a well-thought out burger. Something that tells me that yes, every aspect of design was planned and executed cleanly. From concept to mouthful, the Gimme a Coal nails its brief. I can only imagine that somebody on the Keihei team picked up a marker and simply wrote on the whiteboard ‘Charcoal BBQ’… Read more
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
I’ve seen a lot of attempts at making Shakespeare accessible to the modern era. Maybe they set it in a new country, maybe they retell it from a minor character’s perspective. There seems to be a consensus that the problem with Shakespeare is the language, and so people tend to shy away from the thous… Read more
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Fuegos Libre – Dillinger’s
I love a chilli and having it in a burger might be giving sloppy joe’s, but if you think of it as a sauce, then it all makes sense. The Fuegos Libre by Dillingers’ is loaded with tasty meat from the beef brisket patty to the juicy chilli con carne. It’s not very spicy which… Read more
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Pull My Cheek – Avida
If you don’t know what min-maxing is, it’s the concept of maximising a certain aspect of one thing via the sacrifice of everything else, and the idea is that you apply that principle to a few different things so that the maximised elements make up for the minimised elements elsewhere. Take the Pull My Cheek… Read more
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Fromage & Fortune – Mr. Go’s
I’m a big fan of cheese. And I’m a big fan of being rich. So when the title of Mr. Go’s Welly on a Plate offering evokes both cheesiness and wealth, you’d better believe I’m in. It’s taken a little longer than I would have liked to get to the Fromage & Fortune, but like… Read more
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Asim Kilig Bistek Tagalog – Lazy Juan
It’s easy to forget what the purpose of Welly on a Plate is, sometimes. Is it to get as many eyes as possible on Visa and their superior transactions per minute KPIs? Is it to extort thousands of dollars out of local restaurants so that they don’t get abandoned for the first few weeks of… Read more