ASSIGNMENT: Share your memories of 'The Cook'FAIRFAX NZ Are you a former Dunedin student with memories of The Cook? Dunedin's Captain Cook Tavern - affectionately known by generations of students as The Cook - closed its doors in June 2014, due to declining revenue. But as of Tuesday night, the 1860 pub was officially opened again, this time under its original name, the Captain Cook Hotel. Are you a former Otago University student with fond memories of The Cook? Dunedin's Captain Cook pub returns* Dunedin bar owner speaks out over student drinking"It doesn't matter who you talk to, Otago-educated alumni all have a connection back to the Captain Cook, just about every lawyer, every doctor, every dentist, every surveyor," he said.

Source: Stuff May 16, 2016 21:07 UTC