🎟️ What's on is open. It shows every place with something on, so the filters below are paused.
Every group below is joined by AND: a place must match all of them at once. Inside a group it differs, so each group says which it is.
How the filters combine
Category and Cuisine are any of these: tick Bar and Cafe and you get bars plus cafes. Dietary and Good for are all of these: tick Vegan and Halal and a place must be both, which is why ticking two often empties the list. Open, Show, My places, the search box and the walking distance slider each hold one value and are joined to everything else by AND. Suburb shows only the places in that suburb (the one on each place's line) and fits the map to them. Colour pins by Specials also hides places without a special.
Start point
From: 215 Lambton Quay
Your pin:
Suburb only places in itWithin walking distance
Up to any minutes walk
Show
OpenSpecials
From each venue's own website, checked 21 Aug 2026. On now includes the next 30 minutes.
Special type any of theseMy places
✨ Highlight my places on the map
SavedVisitedBoth
Category any of theseCuisine any of theseDietary all of theseGood for all of theseColour pins by
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What the licensed badge means
709 places carry a licensed badge, from two sources that overlap. 543 are matched to the
Ministry of Justice alcohol licence register, 2026-05 pull, and each popup says how it was
matched. 268 are tagged as licensed in OpenStreetMap. 102 appear in both, so 709 is the
combined total rather than the sum. Matches on a shared name, such as one branch of a chain,
are left out rather than guessed.
A badge means a licence was recorded, not that alcohol is served right now. Check with the venue.
Real venue facts from OpenStreetMap across the wider city. Community data can be incomplete or out of date, so check with the venue.
What's on lists events from Eventfinda and Ticketmaster where shown, linked to each official event page, plus weekly nights from venues' own sites. Data and privacy · Feedback and corrections
CityPlate is a free map of places to eat and drink, with live public transport to get you there. It is independent and non-commercial: no ads, no paid listings, and it is not tied to any festival, brand, or third party. More at cityplate.fun/about.
This build covers the wider Wellington and Auckland areas and inner Sydney and Melbourne using real venue data from OpenStreetMap, whose data is open and licensed under the ODbL and free to reuse with attribution. Only factual details are shown: name, location, category, cuisine, opening hours, and simple tags. Chains are included and can be filtered in or out with the Show control.
Four cities. Wellington, Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne. Switch any time with the city button at the top; your choice is remembered on this device only.
Quality filter. Venues that had nothing beyond a name and a dropped pin were left out, since those are the most likely to be stale or duplicated. Everything shown has at least one real detail (hours, cuisine, an address, a website, or a phone).
Not shown. No prices, ratings, reviews, photos, or menu text, because those are either not in the open data or owned by other sites. There is no busyness estimate: live crowd data is not available on an open licence, and this map does not guess.
Licensed status. In New Zealand a licensed flag is drawn from the national alcohol licence register (Ministry of Justice, ARLA, CC BY 4.0), matched to venues by name and a location within 3 km of the register suburb. A name match alone is not enough. In Sydney it comes from the Liquor & Gaming NSW premises list and in Melbourne from Liquor Control Victoria's list of current licences (both CC BY 4.0), matched by name and a location within 150 m. Only confident matches are flagged, so some licensed venues may not show the badge yet. A food-safety grade (council data, CC BY) is still to come: neither Auckland nor Wellington currently publishes it as open bulk data, so it is on hold pending a usable source.
CityPlate. App design and code (c) 2026 Max Lin. Venue data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
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Data and privacy
CityPlate has no accounts and never asks for your name. Your saved (★) and visited (✓) places stay on this device. Your location is used on your device to measure distances. It leaves the device only when you use Where's my bus or directions, as explained below.
A few things are sent only when you use them: Pals, feedback, sync, directions and live transport. Each is explained below, and the full policy is at cityplate.fun/privacy.
Pals (optional). The server keeps your pal name and a random code this device made up. Your saved and visited places are sent only while Share my places is on, and only pals you accepted can see them. A new pal name or pal request may show a quick Cloudflare bot check.
Feedback. What you write, the city and screen you were on, your browser and phone type (for example Chrome on Android), and a contact line only if you fill it in. Only Max, and the services that run CityPlate for him, can see it. It is deleted after 12 months, or sooner if you ask.
Sync between your own devices (optional). Your saved and visited lists are stored against this device's random code so your other device can fetch them. Treat your sync code like a password: it also controls your pal name, so anyone with it can see and change your lists and act as you in Pals.
Where's my bus, directions and Go mode. Where's my bus sends your start point, rounded to about 100 m, to CityPlate's own transit server to find nearby stops. Directions send your start point and the place's location to plan the route. Live vehicles only download public transport data. Go mode's get-off alerts work on this device.
Stopping abuse. Anything this device sends is counted against a scrambled, one-way form of your network address, kept for about a day, so one network cannot flood CityPlate.
Map and links. Map pictures load from OpenStreetMap's servers, which see your network address and the area you are looking at. Website, call, directions and Uber links open that provider with the venue's details, only when you tap them.
Delete what this device has sent. This removes your pal name, anything you shared or synced, corrections, and feedback from this device. Your lists on this device are kept.
👥 Pals
Are you 18 or over?
Some specials include alcohol. Drink specials are only shown to people aged 18 or over.
Please enjoy alcohol responsibly. Information and support at alcohol.org.nz.
🔖 My lists
Your lists are kept only on this device. Community wide popular lists would need real, anonymous, aggregate user data, which CityPlate does not collect.
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🍽Real places to eat and drink in Wellington, Auckland, Sydney and Melbourne.
🔎Search or filter. ★ saves a place, ✓ marks it tried.
🏷️Specials: food and drink deals on today.
🍹Happy hour: drink deals on now.
🎟️What's on: gigs, shows and quiz nights.
🧭Trip plans any trip, step by step, and shares it. Stuck? Roll the 🎲.
🔒Nothing about you is collected unless you choose to send it. Enjoy!
Spotted a wrong, missing, or closed venue? The venue facts come from OpenStreetMap, so the best fix helps everyone: correct the venue at openstreetmap.org (free account, built-in editor), and this map picks the fix up at its next data refresh.
Licensed badge looks off? The badge comes from a public alcohol licence register (the Ministry of Justice in New Zealand, Liquor & Gaming NSW for Sydney, Liquor Control Victoria for Melbourne), matched by name and location, so a renamed venue can be missed and the registers update on their own schedules. When it matters, check with the venue.
Feedback about the app itself (ideas, bugs, anything confusing): write it here and it goes straight to the maker. Or email max@maxlin.art.