Posts by Rob Hosking
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Rob, was Jack Henderson working at Just Desserts when you went there? I remember him holding court over the backgammon board, subversive conversations and some compelling apple cake.
Don't remember anyone by name but the backgammon board rings a bell.
One Wellington story: just after I moved here in '95, going into Neo on Willis St and saying 'Just a latte thanks' and the guy pulling himself up to his full height and saying with exaggerated dignity 'we don't do just lattes'.
I know this will confirm the "wellington coffee snob" line but he was taking the piss.
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O what a trip down memory lane this thread is...
First time I ever had nachos was at DKDs. Was a bit suspicious of this foreign stuff, but found I quite liked it. It was a great place: handy for pre-or-post-pictures nosh up.
One place no-one's mentioned : JDs. I think it stood for Just Desserts. It was up the steps from the fountain in Lorne St, or down just one flight of steps from the street if you were coming from Uni side. Closed around 1988 or early 89, from memory. I remember nothing about the food or the coffee: just as a place to meet and Talk About Life.
In defence of Espressaholic - they do a damn good Eggs Montreal. They're not stingy with the salmon. And the music isn't too loud in the mornings.
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In Auckland, DKD opened in 1985, I think. There were a few other places serving espresso (what was the health-food plae in Lorne St?), but it's generally agreed that you can trace the Auckland cafe culture from there.
Dominos, if its the one I think you mean. They used to do great vegetarian lasagnes, back in the days when I was experimenting with vegetarianism (well, experimenting with vegetarian women would probably be more accurate).
When I first moved to Auckland in '85, there was a place in one of the arcades just down from The Corner. I'd heard of this expresso thing and thought I'd try it out. Got served it in this little bloody thing the size of a film cannister, 'what a bloody rip off' I thought and threw it back.
Spent the rest of the morning bouncing off the walls.
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I also no longer buy chicken that has not been been free-range farmed - it seems to have shot up in fat content in recent years and now its all fat. Might as well eat a duck.
Except a duck would have more flavour.
Most chicken now has the same flavour as tofu.
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And the demise of Anglo-Saxon food is IMHO one of the great positive things to have happened in NZ during my lifetime.
Hang on. Done right its pretty damn good.
Despite a one - sometimes two - home made curries a week habit I still reckon the closest to ideal meal is an entree of bluff oysters, follwoed by roast lamb, baked spud and kumara with steamed veges; and dessert of blackberry crumble.
Accompanied by a Barrossa Valley red.
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How about pointing at the Gorilla and saying "Phil Collins" ;-)
Phil Collins is not a gorilla.
He's a singing Dalek.
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My daughter saw the zebra and yelled "documentary!"
My own daughter would have begun to sing about the Horse in Striped Pyjamas. Its her favourite song at the moment (although she is starting to like some of her dad's CDs: roared with laughter the other day at ol Warren Zed's 'Werewolves of London' and ran around the house going 'Ahh-OOO!' )
My own first zoo visit was aged 7, with a Sunday School trip. We'd been told the story about Daniel in the Lions Den a few months earlier and it had really impressed me and... oh, you don't want to hear the rest of this story. Let's just say I discovered Sunday School teachers, however devout, are not necessarily Biblical literalists.
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Has there ever been a channel so poorly named as Sky Movie Greats?
Umm...The E Channel??
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Ooh Oohh!! Me Please Mr Kotter!!
Small fAces Ogdens Nut Gone Flake!!
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My manners... yeah, happy B'Day, Russell.
On the drumming theme... I'd also nominate the whoever drummed on Smokey Robinson's 'Tears of a Clown': it really drives the entire track.
And on Moon: here's a Who track which should have been better known... and which also shows where Jim Henson and is co-Muppetteers got the model for their drummer.