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Friday night

As per usual, Friday night dinner will be up to the individual dancer to organize, though if you would like advice about a restaurant or fast food joint, feel free to ask us.

Saturday night

Saturday night dinner will be a charmingly chaotic affair, as you have a spectacular number of choices!

Choice one is to wander up the road from your accommodation to the large New World Supermarket and prepare dinner for yourselves.

Choice two is to visit Wholly Bagels (in the supermarket complex) earlier in the day and buy some of the tastiest bagels in town and toast them yourself for dinner! Serve them with cream cheese and some smoked salmon from New World and that’s truly a dinner in the Israeli style!

Choice three is one of the most exciting, as we’ll be running shuttle vans from the venue at 5.00 and 5.15 to Courtenay Place, mecca to the food lover. There you will find restaurants, cafés and fast food joints that cover every taste, nation and price range. If you’re planning on taking this option, why not click on the link below and visit a virtual Courtenay Place to choose your dinner in advance. This page features full menus from a large number of local restaurants which, as we’re eating early, should all be able to seat you pretty much straight away. If you require assistance in choosing a restaurant or café or you’re looking for a particular type of food, let us know and we’ll do all we can to help.

Vans will pick up from Courtenay Place at 7.00 and 7.15 to deliver everyone back to the venue for the evening’s social dancing.

For a list of menus from a selection of Courtenay Place restaurants, go to: http://www.menus.co.nz/wellington/ and select “Courtenay Courter”. You may then click on the restaurant whose menu you’d like to browse.

For panorama photos of Courtenay Place and it’s restaurants, go to: http://www.wotzon.com/profilepage.html?comp_id=1001229&CatID= and select the restaurant you’d like to see.

Please note that very few fast food places are listed here, and actually nowhere near all the restaurants.

Wellington Israeli Dance Group’s personal Courtenay Place recommendations are:

  • Sahara: Middle Eastern cuisine. Takeaway.
  • One Red Dog: Pizza, pasta and salads.
  • Catch Sushi: for the unique experience of choosing your dinner from a conveyor belt.
  • Monsoon Poon: For a vast array of South East Asian cuisine and a great atmosphere.
  • Masala: For a great Indian menu.
  • Lone Star: Massive Tex-Mex menu.
  • Habebie: Middle eastern.
  • Phoenician Felafel: It’s falafel, what else could it be but middle eastern?
  • Chow:Asian.
  • The Reading Cinema complex also features an excellent food court with sushi,
  • Malaysian-Thai, McDonalds and Indian food if you’re wanting something quick.

Entertainment

Want to munch on a kebab for a speedy meal then have some time on your hands? Visit Arty Bee’s second hand bookshop or Whitcoulls in the Reading Cinema complex, both open until 10.00pm on the weekends.

Gelato!
Fancy some dessert? Kaffe Eis next to the Paramount Cinema make the best gelato in the world ! (Yeah! Take that, Italy!).

Fancy a drink after dinner?
Try the Dragon Bar in the middle of the road! It’s Welsh and it used to be a public toilet! Opens at 6.00. Tiptoe one block up Tory St and on the right you’ll find a covered doorway to ‘The Hawthorne’, a very quiet little bar that tends to play 1940s jazz and make the best cocktails in town. The Courtenay Arms import almost every type of English beer imaginable. Basically, walk a few steps from your restaurant and you’ll find a pub, if you want one.

Lunches

We’ve managed to capture the same caterer we used at our last camp for the lunches and we are delighted once again at her superb plans for our lunches.

Sunday night

On Sunday night we have been fortunate enough to book out the restaurant at the Portland Hotel, one block from the venue. The cost of the buffet is $38.00 per head, though we are happy to subsidise the cost down to $25.00 if you book before the end of August.

Sunday dinner menu:

  • Freshly Baked Breads on Tables
  • Buffet Selection
  • Braised Lamb Shanks
  • Baked Chicken w Leeks & Herbs
  • Vegetarian Aubergine & Tomato Bake
  • Warm Roasted Vegetable Pasta Salad
  • Kumara & Garlic Mash
  • Baked Winter Vegetable Platter w Balsamic dressing
  • Tossed Green Salad w Feta & Olives

Dessert

    Coconut Tart w Passion Fruit Mascarpone
  • Fresh Fruit Salad w Whipped Cream
  • Freshly Brewed Tea & Coffee