The LYNX Black Gentleman's Guide to Wellington
Come this way and let LYNX Black and Concrete Playground take you on a gentleman's tour of Wellington.

The LYNX Black Gentleman's Guide to Wellington
The modern man is a constantly evolving beast. Manliness isn’t just bulging muscles and lumberjack beards anymore. Nor is it just stoically bringing home the bacon. He isn’t afraid of clamping that top button, but can just as easily undo it. He can chew into a big juicy steak just as keenly as he can sip an acai berry smoothie. He knows what he wants, but is confident enough to ask for guidance when he needs it.
Today’s modern gentleman is goddamn inspiring. And we’re inspired by him. So come this way and let LYNX Black and Concrete Playground take you on a gentleman's tour of Wellington.
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Arts & Entertainment
Roger Waters The Wall
A peak behind the brickwork and the highest-grossing solo tour of all time.
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Arts & Entertainment
World Press Photo Exhibition 2015
Distilling 2014 into a collection of photographs showing headlining events and intimate moments.
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Arts & Entertainment
Glass Vaults
Hypnotic electronica that encapsulates celebration, love and stoner gospel.
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Design & Style
The Ten Best Online Menswear Stores
Find some fresh new threads and enjoy a seamless delivery.
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Arts & Entertainment
Straight Outta Compton
A slick, provocative and timely biopic about one of hip hop's most iconic groups.
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Arts & Entertainment
Southpaw
Gyllenhaal delivers a knockout performance despite the movie's countless clichés.
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Design & Style
The Five Best Barbers in Wellington
Whatever vibe appeals to you most, you can rest assured you’re in expert hands with any one of Wellington’s finest.
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Arts & Entertainment
Major Lazer, Duke Dumont, DJ Snake, Oliver Heldens and Galantis to Headline OUR:HOUSE
Featuring genre-spanning banger-makers and the person responsible for a viral crunk sensation.
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Food & Drink
The Six Best Whisky Bars in Wellington
Bars that make an impression, without going over the top.
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Arts & Entertainment
Fight Club as a Rock Opera? It's Actually Happening
Chuck Palahniuk, David Fincher and Trent Reznor are apparently all on board.
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Arts & Entertainment
Our Ten Must-See Movies of the New Zealand International Film Festival
Popcorn at the ready.
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Arts & Entertainment
See Localised Listening Trends of Cities Around the World
Roots/rock/reggae is more popular than you think.
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Design & Style
A Look Inside the LYNX Black and Vanishing Elephant Collaboration
There's a style for every situation.
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Arts & Entertainment
Brilliant Things to Do in Wellington This July
Play with Lego under the guise of participating in interactive art, see the best local tour of the year, experience the unprofessional professional EDM artists and get your popcorn ready for the annual NZIFF.
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Design & Style
New Cycleways Worth $333 Million Are Coming Your Way, New Zealand
You get a cycleway! You get a cycleway! Everybody gets a cycleway!
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Food & Drink
London's Getting Its First 'Real Time' Stock Market Bar
Where cocktail prices fluctuate in real time, according to supply and demand.
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Design & Style
Apple Launches Music Streaming Service to Rival Spotify and Pandora
Yes, you can ask Siri to play her favourite Kendrick Lamar song.
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Arts & Entertainment
Demented Architecture
Many have dreamed of the day when one may play with Lego under the facade of participating in an interactive art exhibition. Well, that day has arrived.
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Design & Style
Charge Your Phone Through Your Desk with Intel's New Wireless Tech
The American technology giant is getting rid of your clunky charger.
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Arts & Entertainment
American Football is Coming to New Zealand Next Year
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
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Design & Style
IKEA Is Developing Official Furniture Hacking Kits
Monetising a concept their customers have already been embracing for years.
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Arts & Entertainment
The Seven Best Cinemas in Wellington
A museum cinema hybrid, Wellington's oldest cinema and a theatre stacked with comfy armchairs.
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Design & Style
Spotify Can Now Sync Your Music to Your Running Pace
Blending your listening history with new specially-created tracks, it's like your own personal exercise DJ.
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Food & Drink
This Sydney Pub Has Made the World's Most Expensive Meat Pie
Let's hope tomato sauce isn't extra.
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Design & Style
I Love Ugly Defies Ugliness Yet Again With New Lookbook
A label still not living up to its name.
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Food & Drink
Concrete Playground Meets Muse on Allen's Samuel North
What were you doing when you were 21?
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Food & Drink
The Ten Best First Date Destinations in Wellington
Places to let your Tinder matches kindle into romance.
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Food & Drink
Zibibbo
Michelin starred chef Adam Newell's ex-police station restaurant brings tapas to the people.
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Food & Drink
The Ten Best Courtyard Cafes in Wellington
Great cafes are all about the somewhat iffy and plainly frustrating word 'vibes'. But while vibes may be tricky for us to understand, wise restaurateurs all agree that amazing courtyards definitely have something to do with it.
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Food & Drink
Matterhorn
Matterhorn cannot be pigeonholed. It is both a refuge from Wellington’s late night mayhem and the maker of its own.
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Food & Drink
The Bresolin
The Bresolin brothers are the resounding affirmative answer to the question of whether a knack for good food is genetic.
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Food & Drink
The Eight Best Secret Bars in Wellington
Wellington bars don't always have the most conventional of locations. Some are found at the end of a traverse up an unmarked rickety wooden stairwell, others a little walk down a dodgy-looking back alleyway, or even hidden inside another bar's closet.
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Food & Drink
Little Beer Quarter
With fourteen rotating taps, two handpulls and over a hundred beers in the fridge, describing the place as 'well-stocked' might be a bit of an understatement.
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Food & Drink
Meow
Bar by night, cafe by day, the onomatopoeic drinking hole known as 'Meow' has a democratic way of catering to all needs and tastes.
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Food & Drink
Chow
With bare concrete walls, plush leather seats and hanging Victorian lamps, Chow does not fall neatly into any specific genre of restaurant/bar.
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Food & Drink
Hippopotamus Restaurant & Cocktail Bar
One of Wellington's swishiest French restaurants.
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Food & Drink
Hawthorn Lounge
A place where logophiles, gentlemen and Friends of Alcoholic Beverages can convene.
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Food & Drink
CGR Merchant and Co
Something of a cross between a smuggler's den and an alchemist's shop, the Merch is a rum or gin lover's holy grail.
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Food & Drink
Logan Brown
Eating at Logan Brown feels like eating a five star meal at your best friend's place.
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Food & Drink
The Rogue and Vagabond
The bar has live music, a resident bulldog and some of the best craft beers in town.
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Food & Drink
Arthur’s
Arthur's occupies a two-storey Edwardian building filled with a collection of knick-knacks that ten grandmas combined would struggle to beat.
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Food & Drink
El Matador
A lively place to begin your night out or simply to watch the interesting folk bumbling down Cuba Street.