Day 2: Kingmans in Kiwi Land...

Hi y'all!
Thank you to those people who expressed sadness that my blog has been so lonely with no new posts! Time has just been flooding away like sand through my fingers, where is it going? {looking exasperatedly at the door}. It's nearly Christmas! What the?!
Enough of the chit chat, time for a culinary adventure through Wellington, day 2.

Let me introduce you to Sweet Mother's Kitchen.. I'd have to say this was one major reason I wanted to go back to Wellington. LOL! I love Mexican food, so the thrill of eating it for Breakfast was just so captivating! Well, it's not really the same type of Mexican you'd eat for dinner, there is bacon and egg involved at Sweet Mothers, but it's got a little twist of Mexican, like my fave: Black Beans. I dunno what it is about them, but those little black pillows of delicious have me all excited. And it's probably cos you can't get Mexican Black Beans in a can in Aussie Supermarkets. (I brought some home from NZ to fill that void!)

I ate the Breakfast Burrito and I added Bacon and Hash, and that was totally the best decision I made for the whole trip. It was awesome. Like the bacon was so crispy, and the hash was crispy and the black beans made it soft, yet the outside of the Burrito looked as though it had been pressed in a waffle maker. It was so Yum. Yum yum yum. Double Yum. Did I mention I love Mexican Food?

Mum had Eggs Bomba, which was on my list to eat, but I opted for the Burrito instead (maybe we still need to go back to Wellington so I can try more of Sweet Mother's!) It's creamed spinach and artichoke with eggs and hollandaise with roasted tomatos and a baguette. Yum!

Yvette had the Huevos Rancheros which I had when Will, Jai and I visited in March. It was delish too.

This was how our bill arrived, being sat on by a Frill neck lizard who was being ridden by a man whose head was engulfed by a crocodile. Are all those things supposed to examplify us cos we're Aussie? Talk about Quirky! But that's just Wellington, full of Quirk!
Sweet Mothers is in Courtenay St, around the Theatre district & about 2 blocks from Te Papa. Go there for breakfast... or brunch... or both. YUM!
We skipped lunch on Day 2, seeing as we'd had such an awesome delicious brunch at Sweet Mother's, but we ended up searching the southern end of Cuba Street for somewhere for afternoon tea. We settled on Floriditas, mostly cos it looked nice & the other places looked as though Pick Pockets might run a rampage inside.

The decor of Floriditas was beautiful, with white "subway tiles" on all the walls, and a giant clock in the middle. The atmosphere was great, the selection of cakes was not. We were after some nice cakes/pastries for arvo tea and all they had was what was under about 6 glass domes on the counter top. There was portugese custard tarts, 2 types of cupcakes, a pear and ginger tart and a bombalina. I consider that an extrememly modest selection of cakes for a cafe that do their own baking, they consider it "a simple menu" according to their website. Fire up that oven a bit more and get adventurous you lazy bums!

One lovely thing about Floriditas though, (thankfully, or it would have been a rather boring place for arvo tea!) was their beautiful collection of china. We all had different cups, saucers and plates and they were beautiful! Mine had this gorgeous English-looking scene on it.

Here are all our plates together... (and some of the measly selection of baked goods.)

And there is my Bombalina. I also had a pot of Otago Summer Fruits tea, and I have to say it was delicious. Finally, they redeemed something against their boringness at Floriditas! LOL!

And to prove we pretty much just ATE on this holiday, dinner was amazing modern Tapas at Foxglove on Queens Wharf. It was superbly delicious, and after a little hiccup where the waitress ordered the wrong thing for us, then the other waitress tried to argue that we HAD ordered the Salmon and Dill fromage and she wasn't going to leave the table until we admitted that we ordered it and she forced us to eat it (or at least, that's how it felt that the conversation was going!)

My choice was the Mozarella balls drizzled in honey, and they, along with the hand cut chips were my faves! YUM!

Here are the freakishly awesome chips...

And the parentals {hugs!}
Go to Foxglove, it was fantastic!
So that was the end of the second day of food in Wellington! Are you still reading, or have you gone off to raid the fridge cos you're salivating? Yeah, me too!
:) C