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Wellington and the Wairarapa Restaurants

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Wellington and the Wairarapa Restaurant Reviews

If New Zealand's national sport is rugby, then surely the national pastime must be eating and drinking. In Wellington, restaurants, cafés, and sports bars have been springing up overnight like mushrooms. Although we'll never be without the classic meal of steak, french fries, and cold ale, and while the humble meat pie is still an iconic Kiwi mouthful, Wellington restaurants have embraced more adventurous fare. Chinese, Thai, Japanese, Malaysian, Mexican, and Italian cuisines are increasingly common, and wine lists are actually being studied (though not with the same intensity as the racing journals and sports pages). Indigenous food, too, is appearing in restaurants around the city—native plants might be paired with traditional seafood or made into sauces to accompany meat or sweet-potato dishes. More »