The Table Bay’s 15th birthday.
What I like about the Table Bay is that the view is unparalelled for a Waterfront hotel. You get the best harbour views ( a real working harbour, and not a sterile container port). You also get uninterrupted sea views, and great views of the mountain.
The location can’t be beaten, and you easily fall out [...]
Michelle Obama, and a book about where she had lunch in Cape Town.
Michelle Obama had lunch in The Kitchen in Woodstock when she came to Cape Town last year.
Cynical wags commented that the driver got the address wrong, and that she had meant to go to the Test Kitchen, also in Woodstock.
Wrong they were, as the Secret Service had been in Karen Dudley’s eatery for days, they [...]
La Luna Dinner at Avondale.
Last Saturday the moon seemed huge, it being closer to Earth than normal.
A cloudless night meant that the landscape was lit up magnificently, and served as an atmospheric backdrop to a dinner hosted by biodynamic wine farmers, Avondale, at their Paarl wine estate.
Sonia Cabano paired a six course meal with Avondale wines.
The food was superb, [...]
What chef’s do when they’re bored.
Chef’s bored? Does it happen? Is it possible?
Well apparently it is, judging from this selection of photographs which Jos Baker has kindly forwarded to me.
Some of them will surely bring a smile to your face …….. maybe just a bit?
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Indonesian – Dutch tapas at Dutch Restaurant, Wynberg.
It seems that tapas are the new international trend.
Diners the world over are eager to experiment and explore lots of different dishes and new tastes.
Ferran Adria, of El Bulli fame closed up his molecular gastronomy restaurant and opened a tapas bar in Barcelona.
In Cape Town, Luke Dale-Roberts specialises in them, to great success and recognition.
French [...]
Dancing wines from Solms Delta.
Solms Delta have just released the 2011 Cape red and white blends of Vastrap and Langarm.
I think you appreciate a wine more when you’ve been to the winefarm where it was made, seen the vines and gotten a sense of the place.
The farm at Solms Delta is over 300 years old, and is a unique [...]
100th Anniversary Titanic dinner. The video.
A great event that raised R130,000 for the NSRI wouldn’t be complete without a video to record it.
Funny that some of the guests seemed to think that Titanic was a movie, and not an actual historical event.
Oh well…. money raised is money raised – and at the time of writing it’s tipping over the R130.000 [...]
Bond, James Bond, and I’ll be havin’ a beer….a beer?
Purists are horrified all over the world with Skyfall, the newest James Bond movie due out in November.
Our hero, Bond, will not be sipping his usual Vodka Martinis, ’shaken not stirred’, but instead he is going to quaff a beer.
I don’t know whether it’s out of a glass or by the neck, but the skinny [...]
The most idiotic but useful eating implement ever invented?
This is the fault of the smartphone industry.
Blame Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, Ericsson, Sony, etc.
Such is the prevalence of and addiction to social media, Twitter, Facebook and messaging that users have run into a problem; Greasy Keyboard Syndrome.
Now I’ve seen people texting and using smartphones while driving, going to the loo, at meetings with their bosses [...]
2013 Best Value Wine Guide from Ultra Liquors.
The annual Best Value Wine Guide, published for wine enthusiasts looking for quality wines at an affordable price, will have its largest-ever print-run later this year. Now under the Getaway banner, the pocket guide will see 80 000 copies printed for distribution with the magazine – a fourfold increase on last year.
In addition, an increase in the [...]
