Lucky 8 Wellington is an Asian restaurant at 16 Courtenay Place, Wellington, holding a 4.4 Google rating from its diners. The address puts it on the capital's main strip for evening dining and drinks.
Asian restaurants of this city-centre kind earn their keep through shared tables: dumplings, noodles and wok dishes ordered across the whole group, so a table works through the kitchen's range in one sitting rather than one plate each. Menus often stretch across several regional traditions at once, so it pays to ask what the kitchen cooks best instead of defaulting to the familiar. On a strip this busy, a full room mid-week usually says more than any star rating, and later seatings are part of the neighbourhood's rhythm, with kitchens keeping hours that suit the bars close by.
Tucked among the Courtenay Place crowds, Lucky 8 Wellington is a straightforward answer to where to eat before the night gets going.