Did your food and drink look good and taste incredible? Did you receive great service? Was what you tasted interesting, new, or challenging? As you eat and drink your way through the Festival, we want to find those spots that deliver the ultimate Visa Wellington On a Plate experience!
Every year, we ask festival goers to rate their Burger Wellington experiences out of ten. We use these crowd-sourced scores to narrow down the top contenders and find the five finalists. The finalists are then critiqued by an independent judging panel who decides the ultimate winner.
We also award the best regional burgers, the best use of theme and most innovative for both Burger Wellington and Festival Events.
2024 Burger Wellington Winner - One80
2024 Most Innovative Event Winner - Clay with your Food
2024 Most Innovative Event Winner - Maumahara, Kitchen Takeover
Burger
A Frankenstein Adventure - Zephyr Cafe. Encouraging you to be your monster burger creator, creating saucy concoctionsin test tubes and getting hands on with your burger.
Event
Clay with your Food - Karla Marie Ceramics. Getting hands on first creating your very own clay fermentation crock, a week later you went back to the studio to learn how to fill it with Chef Ben.
Burger
Rogue & Vagabond
Dine
Hippotamus
Cocktail
Mr Go's
Event
Havana Bar, Big Foodie Quiz of the Year
Burger
The Innkeeper - Construct-A-Burg. Fun for the whole family with their burgery delivery via a robot truck.
Event
Kitchen Takeovery - Maumahara. An interactive night weaving their way through the childhood of sisters Kasey and Kārena, through edible nostalgia, projections and music.
Burger
Karaka Cafe
Dine
Hillside Kitchen & Cellar
Cocktail
Coco At The Roxy
Event
Hillside Kitchen & Cellar - Bandersnack
2024: One80, Nawabi Galouti - Galouti lamb patty, pulled lamb shoulder filo cigar, lamb snow, ghee, coriander, Zany Zeus mint labneh, and chicory in a Clareville Bakery croissant bun, with gunpowder podi fries
2023: One80, Goan Chicken Ros Pao - an Indian-inspired burger combined spicy chicken curry with a ros omelette – similar to a gravy and made out of chickpeas – on a bun that is heavily influenced by poee bread, a type of bread similar to pita that is traditionally served alongside curry and ros omelette.
2022: Chaat Street, Dabeli - crispy dabeli spiced potato patty with Fix & Fogg Smoke and Fire peanut butter, coriander, onions, crispy chickpea noodles and tamarind chutney in a masala butter brioche bun.
2021: Egmont St Eatery
2019: Cafe Medici
2018: Wilson Barbecue
2017: Mr Go's
2016: Apache
2015: Egmont St. Eatery
2014: Charley Noble
2013: Ti Kouka
2012: Boulcott Street Bistro
2011: Café Polo
2010: Lembas Café
2023 One80 Burger - "Goan Chicken Ros Pao"
2023: Pravda, Blue Gold - saffron and apricot infused Lighthouse gin, botrytis viognier, dry sherry, burnt pōhutukawa honey and clarified lemon garnished with apricot dust.
2022: Boulcott Street Bistro, The Martinborough Martini - brown butter washed Reid & Reid Rev. Dawson’s gin with housemade Palliser chardonnay vermouth and fresh dill. Accompanied by a crayfish éclair.
2021: C.G.R Merchant & Co.
2019: Pravda
2018: C.G.R Merchant & Co.
2017: CoCo at The Roxy
2016: CoCo at The Roxy
2015: CoCo at The Roxy
2023 Pravda Café Cocktail - "Blue Gold"
2023: Neo Café, Would You Could You Wasabi Pie? - Gelissimo yuzu sorbet and wasabi gelato, burnt cinnamon and lemon marshmallow on Jaconde sponge with lemon shortbread crumbs, makrut lime curd and micro basil.
2022: Neo Café, Flat White Project - Whittaker's Flat White Chocolate mousse with Garage Project Cereal Milk Stout torte, chocolate almond dacquoise, chocolate shell, hazelnut praline and a Coffee Supreme blend espresso pour-over.
2021: Boulcott Street Bistro
2019: Grace Patisserie
2018: Field & Green
2017: Ortega Fish Shack & Bar
2016: Jano Bistro
2015: Logan Brown
2014: The White House
2023 Neo Café Dine Dish - "Would You, Could You, Wasabi Pie?"
After you’ve checked out the Festival’s burgers, you can head back to the listing page and rate each of them out of ten. Not only will you help determine the Festival Awards finalists, every rating you make will put you in the draw to win!
We’ve sent food lovers to Copenhagen, Melbourne and Singapore, dished out some epic Wellington producer goodie bags and sent winners on exclusive brewery tours. Check out our Rate & Win page for more info!
