Insiders Dunedin
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
The city through the eyes of the people who live it.
Seven ways in. Pick the one that catches your eye.
What we've been looking at lately.
David Stedman runs Dutybound from the same Crawford Street bindery where he apprenticed decades ago. We profile a craft that refuses to disappear.
8 February 2026
The NEV Community Garden runs on volunteers, raised beds, and Saturday morning tea. How North East Valley grows food and community together.
Dean Hall built RocketWerkz in Dunedin, not Auckland. Here's what the game studio is making, who's working there, and what it means for the city.
A basement bar on Bath Street with a late-night kitchen, serious cocktails, and the kind of atmosphere that keeps Dunedinites out past their bedtime.
Started as a side project between a handful of Dunedin locals who kept running into the same problem: they'd discover something brilliant - a new bar in a converted warehouse, a walking track they'd somehow never done, a ceramicist working out of a garage in Port Chalmers - and have nowhere to put the story except a Facebook post that would vanish in a day.
A shared blog became a proper site when they realised other people were having the same experience. Dunedin has always been full of things worth knowing about; it was just missing a place to collect them.
The stories, people, and places that make Dunedin worth paying attention to. In your inbox when we have something worth sharing.
