around the city, performing a mix of sketch comedy and semi-improvised theatre. In 2012 the group disbanded when some of its members moved to Australia. Wellington hosts shows in the annual New Zealand International Comedy Festival. Visual arts From 1936 to 1992 Wellington was home to the National Art Gallery of New Zealand, when it was amalgamated into Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Wellington is home to the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts and the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. The city's arts centre, Toi Pōneke, is a nexus of creative projects, collaborations, and multi-disciplinary production. Arts Programmes and Services Manager Eric Vaughn Holowacz and a small team based in the Abel Smith Street facility have produced ambitious initiatives such as Opening Notes, Drive by Art, and public art projects. The city is home to experimental arts publication White Fungus. The Learning Connexion provides art classes. Other visual art galleries include the City Gallery. Cuisine Wellington is characterised by small dining establishments, and its café culture is internationally recognised, being known for its large number of coffeehouses. There are a few iconic cafes that started the obsession with coffee that Wellington has. One of these is the Deluxe Expresso Bar that opened in 1988. Wellington Restaurants offer cuisines including from Europe, Asia and Polynesia; for dishes that have a distinctly New Zealand style, there are lamb, pork and cervena (venison), salmon, crayfish (lobster), Bluff oysters, pāua (abalone), mussels, scallops, pipis and tuatua (both New Zealand shellfish); kumara (sweet potato); kiwifruit and tamarillo; and pavlova, the national dessert. Sport Wellington is the home to: Hurricanes – Super Rugby team based in Wellington Wellington Lions – ITM Cup rugby team Wellington Phoenix FC – football (soccer) club playing in the Australasian A-League, the only fully professional football club in New Zealand Team Wellington – in the semi-professional New Zealand Football Championship Central Pulse – netball team representing the Lower North Island in the ANZ Championship, primarily based in Wellington Wellington Firebirds and Wellington Blaze – men's and women's cricket teams Wellington Saints – basketball team in the National Basketball League Sporting events include: six pool games and two quarter-final games at the 2011 Rugby World Cup the Wellington Sevens – a round of the IRB Sevens World Series held at the Wellington Regional Stadium over several days every February. the 2011 Tae Kwon Do World Champs The 2014 World