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Salient: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Vol. 32, No. 7. 1969.

Noshingrog by Tums

Noshingrog by Tums

A guide to eating and drinking in Wellington

Dear Old Midland,

What's happened, mine own? Inside the pleasantly brown panelled walls of your Private Bar I first drank at the lender age of 15. On the horseshoe bar Baldly or Andre used to keep me my favourite spot and shoo away the nouveau bú. Poly and Bob used to shout on special occasions.

And now, The horseshoe bar gone, you are filled with commercial travellers and grey-faced Mobil men. Your still friendly barmen laugh behind the back of your new manager. My friends who have drunk and got drunk there for years have been banned for life for telling your manager what they thought.

The bar is still the best Red Band in town but your students have gone to the Grand and your atmosphere is that of a computerised telephone exchange. I still drink in you. But my hear, old friend, lies elsewhere. Regretfully. 2 points.

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If you want a special feed with your special friend at a fairly cheap price please to go to the Tai Pai restaurant on Victoria Street near Willeston Street. Be daring. Order the food that you can't understand on the menu. Although I attended with a Chinese friend, I got the impression that the non-yellow-fellow would still get good treatment. The soup of the day is essential. If you're a conservative Chinese eater, the fried rice can only be beaten by that of the Hong Kong cafe when you're drunk. Service is friendly. 4 points.

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Although I am not usually a fan for bars which are "in" I got a pleasant surprise this week by going to The Cellars in the Regent. Seating is comfortable, service pleasant, the beer reasonable. (Best you go back to Waikato, Joe.) The bar is not very big, but plans for expansion are underway. Upstairs, both at ground and first floor level the bare are not recommended unless you are either a 16 stone black belt karate expert or a dabbler in fourteen year old teeny boppers. Grading (The Cellars only)—4 points.