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Hannah Megennis, left, and Kalliana Kong, pictured here in 2017, launched Wellingnoms as a way of spending more time together before Megennis moved to Australia. Today you can’t scroll an inch on social media without bumping into a food blog, but in 2015, the platform was just gaining momentum. Wellington was bursting with cheap and cheerful places to eat – “and they’ve probably been there for as long as you can remember”. She ate out two to four times a week, after work or on her lunch break, often invited to openings and menu launches. Nothing was promised. “We make it clear that if we like it, we’ll do a post about it.”
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Pierre Fenoux and Diana Goh got engaged around the same time they opened their Wellington restaurant, Jano Bistro.
French-born Pierre Fenoux, 37, is the head chef of Wellington’s Jano Bistro which he co-owns with his fiancee Diana Goh, 43, the restaurant manager. The couple has been together 10 years and opened their Willis St restaurant in 2014.
Pierre: I moved to New Zealand in early 2010 after being in Australia for a few years. Diana and I almost didn’t meet – she was living in Melbourne but was back in Wellington for a few days and I wasn’t planning on going out that night because I’d worked a long shift and was tired.
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