Visa Wellington On a Plate 10-26 August 2018 VisaWOAP.com Welcome Kia ora koutou. Do you remember your 10th birthday party? There was probably cake, family, friends, presents and a whole lot of fun. We’re capturing that spirit to celebrate Visa Wellington On a Plate (Visa WOAP) reaching double digits, with this year’s festival theme: “Party”. What started as an idea for a winter food festival in 2009 has now become the biggest fortnight in every foodie’s calendar. From just 43 menus and 30 events in our first year, we now bring you hundreds of burgers, cocktails, festival dishes and a huge array of events. After a decade of hard work, let’s put our hands together for the region’s chefs, brewers, bakers, butchers, winemakers, artisan producers plus our sponsors, partners and all the people who help make the festival, and Wellington’s food scene so damn delicious. Join us as we eat, drink, PARTY! and be Welly this August. Sarah Meikle Festival Director Hungry for updates? Follow us on wellingtononaplate wellyonaplate #WellyOnaPlate #BurgerWelly #CocktailWelly 1 Events There are over 100 THE EVENT THE EVENT EVENT events, from playful LISTINGS CALENDAR TICKETS pop ups to all-out degustations This year’s line-up What’s on and when Visa Pre-sale: Mon 18 June, 12pm – Tues 19 June, midnight and everything General sale: Thurs 21 June, 12pm in between. PAGE 4 PAGE 32 Book at VisaWOAP.com Events can sell THE Note: all prices include Ticketek processing fees. Additional credit out in minutes, IMPORTANT so be quick! card and ticket delivery fees may apply. STUFF Eat, drink and be Welly with us! Eat & Drink Choose from this year’s dazzling array of fun and feasts, Restaurants, cafes, as you slice and dice your own festival experience with THE BURGER COCKTAIL DINE RATE food trucks and this handy guide. RESTAURANT WELLINGTON WELLINGTON WELLINGTON TO BE IN bars plate up unique INDEX LISTINGS LISTINGS LISTINGS TO WIN! 2018 Theme: ‘Party’ dishes, seriously Be inspired by our 10-year anniversary as the 2018 creative burgers All the places, where What’s best between Creative cocktails Set menus and Who will be crowned participants explore what a party or celebration means and extraordinary to find them and two buns? and matching tapas festival dishes the best? cocktails. how to book to them through their Festival Dishes, menus, events, PAGE 50 PAGE 58 PAGE 62 Rate every Burger, burgers and cocktails. PAGE 35 Cocktail or Festival Dish you try out of 10 at VisaWOAP.com Your ratings determine the finalists, plus each is a chance to win tasty prizes. Shortlist & Share Visit VisaWOAP.com to shortlist and share your favourites. Know your limit. We encourage consumers to drink responsibly. Head to cheers.org.nz for more information. Dining discount cards and vouchers may not be used in conjunction with Visa Wellington On a Plate menus. 2 VisaWOAP.com Hungry for updates? Follow us on wellingtononaplate wellyonaplate #WellyOnaPlate #BurgerWelly #CocktailWelly 3 Pop Ups EVENTS #CHOWVEGAN Chow goes entirely vegan for a day. WHEN Thu 23 Aug, POP UPS TAKEOVER Experience vegan takes on best- 11.30am–late loved Chow classics, as well as fresh WHERE Chow, Level 1, new creations to delight vegans and 45 Tory St, Te Aro, non-vegans alike. Even their famous Wellington CBD $25 lunch and cocktail menus will PRICE Pay on consumption be re-designed with the vegan in (tickets not required) mind. #ChowVeganTakeover (DF, GF, NF, Pesc, V, Vv) EVENTS CAFE POLO Café Polo teams up with WHEN Thu 23 Aug, ABANDONS Abandoned Brewery for an evening 5pm–late MIRAMAR FOR of chicken wings and beer at Cuba WHERE San Fran, 171 Cuba St, POP UPS CHEF COLLABORATIONS TAKE ME OUT Street’s San Fran. Take your pick Te Aro, Wellington CBD SAN FRAN from ten flavours of free range PRICE Pay on consumption There are no tickets to these events, Presented by Singapore Airlines, Dinners, degustations, date nights wings matched with Abandoned (tickets not required) beers on tap. (DF*, GF*, NF*) just show up and have a good time top chefs from NZ and around the and everything in between world team up with local eateries PAGE 5 PAGE 10 PAGE 8 CHEFS Imagine a cocktail menu inspired WHEN 10–26 Aug: by the desert island dessert choices Sun–Thu, 5pm–late FOOD 101 FAMILY & KIDS DO PARTIE of some of Wellington’s best chefs. & Fri–Sat, 4pm–late Chefs Do Partie is The Library's WHERE The Library, Level 1, Learn from the best with tips and Kids become the chef or take the cocktail spin on those dessert 53 Courtenay Pl, Te Aro, tricks, hands-on masterclasses whole family out revelations, and don’t you just Wellington CBD and delicious discussions want to know what’s on the list? PRICE Pay on consumption PAGE 31 (DF, GF, NF, Pesc, V, Vv) (tickets not required) PAGE 25 EAT YOUR ART Visit Wellington’s only edible souvenir WHEN Fri 10 & Fri 17, shop to experience a wonderful world 6pm–10pm, OUT: EDIBLE of edible art and culinary curiosities. Sat 11 & Sat 18, SOUVENIR Take home and devour an edible 12pm–10pm SHOP souvenir of the coolest little capital. Sun 12 & Sun 19 Aug, Tantalise your taste buds with a 12pm–8pm range of hand-crafted treats and WHERE Suite Gallery, 241 Cuba St, beverages by a local artist, designer Te Aro, Wellington CBD and trained chef. PRICE Pay on consumption (DF, GF, NF, Pesc, V, Vv) (tickets not required) F*CK, THAT'S Tuck into a free outdoor screening WHEN Sun 26 Aug, DELICIOUS of some of the best episodes of 6.30pm–8.30pm VICE's F*CK, That's Delicious. WHERE Southern Cross Garden IN THE Then, once hunger sets in, sample Bar Restaurant, GARDEN BAR dishes recreated from the show, 39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro, including Szechuan and honey- Wellington CBD glazed ribs and caramel chicken thighs, by our Action Bronson PRICE Pay on consumption doppelgänger chef, that will have (tickets not required) you saying "F*ck, That's Delicious"! (Cannot cater to dietary requirements) GATE TO PLATE A rare opportunity to enjoy a WHEN Tue 21–Thu 23 Aug, POP UP gourmet takeaway lunch designed 11.30am–3pm and prepared by prisoners from WHERE Visa Festival Hub at Rimutaka Prison, mentored by Prefab Hall, 14 Jessie St, renowned chef Martin Bosley. Te Aro, Wellington CBD A chance for those who cannot PRICE Pay on consumption attend the Rimutaka Prison Gate (tickets not required) to Plate dinners to experience the food produced by prison chefs. KEY (DF) Dairy free (GF) Gluten free (NF) Nut free (Pesc) Pescatarian (V) Vegetarian (Vv) Vegan *Available on request (GF, Pesc, V, Vv*) 4 VisaWOAP.com Hungry for updates? Follow us on wellingtononaplate wellyonaplate #WellyOnaPlate #BurgerWelly #CocktailWelly 5 EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS MATCH Pop in during the Festival and WHEN Fri 10–Sat 25 Aug, WINE BAR discover your next favourite drop 4pm–late from Wellington’s very own wine WHERE Noble Rot Wine Bar, BIRTHDAYS THAT country, as Noble Rot heroes the 6 Swan Lane, Te Aro, best wines produced just over the POP UPS Wellington CBD POP UPS WILL NEVER COME... hill. This year, blind-test flights of PRICE Pay on consumption Renowned New Zealand-born, New York-based three Wairarapa wines and have a (tickets not required) photographer and food artist Henry Hargreaves go at guessing what’s in your glass. Red or white, dry or sweet, find out creates a photographic exhibition of cakes and what your taste buds prefer. nostalgia for the 10th anniversary of Visa WOAP. (Cannot cater to dietary requirements) Celebrate the ‘uncelebratable’ birthdays of baby names submitted, but then declined in New Zealand. PIE & PINOT Perfectly pitched Pinot with piquant WHEN Sun 26 Aug, pastry pies. Indulge in one of the 2pm–6.30pm most reverent and iconic Kiwi meals WHERE Golding's Free Dive, WHEN Fri 17 & Sat 18, Mon 20–Sat 25 Aug, 10am–5pm matched with the wonderful flavour 14 Leeds St, Te Aro, Sun 19 & Sun 26 Aug 11am–4pm of the country's best Pinot. Pies Wellington CBD WHERE Precinct 35, and Pinot? Perfect! (V) 35 Ghuznee St, PRICE Pay on consumption Te Aro, Wellington CBD (tickets not required) PRICE Free entry (tickets not required) GOLDBURGER It’s out with the sharing and in WHEN 10–26 Aug: THAT '70S Come celebrate the '70s with WHEN Fri 10–Sun 26 Aug, with the searing as Shepherd Wed, Thu, Sat & Sun, DINNER PARTY fondue, Swedish meatballs, 12pm–late Restaurant takes a break to 6pm–late stroganoff and more with our '70s WHERE Beach Babylon, become Wellington’s shortest Fri, 12pm–late Dinner Party pop up running across 232 Oriental Pde, living and newest burger haven. WHERE Shepherd, 5 Eva St, the whole festival. Oriental Bay Fast food with the same Te Aro, Wellington CBD (DF*, NF*, Pesc, Vv, V) Wellington Suburbs Shepherd ideals: local, fresh PRICE Pay on consumption PRICE Pay on consumption and fun but this time it (tickets not required) (tickets not required) comes with fries. (DF, NF*, Pesc*, V*) GOOD Join Salty Pidgin as they reimagine WHEN Fri 10–Sun 26 THE LAST Kiwi chip shop classics at their (closed Mondays COMPANIONS ‘Good Companions’ pop up. & Tue 21 Aug), SUPPER: FOOD From crumbed, battered or whole 5pm–late FOR THOUGHT fish to fresh natural oysters, and WHERE Salty Pidgin, EXHIBITION 60,000 meals housemade hot dogs featuring 5 Todman St, Brooklyn, provided to those in need Longbush Pork, you’ll find the Wellington Suburbs posh version of all your favourites PRICE Pay on consumption each month.