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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I had a read of the Egg Organisation Committee Chairmans Report 2010 the other day.
It was presented to the annual bash/conference of all the people who produce eggs in South Africa.
I couldn’t help but be fascinated by some of the fun facts contained in it.
This is a sort of “Did you know”, or “Not a [...]
What a great evening at the Mount Nelson. Great food, great wine, excellent company and all for a great cause.
We are still counting the money as it comes in, but at this stage we have raised well over R100,000 for the NSRI.
Rudi Liebenberg and his team excelled themselves, and managed to serve 8 wonderful courses, [...]
If Rudi Liebenberg had been commanding the Titanic it would not have sunk.
No, as Master and Commander of multitasking and delivering hospitality excellence he barely batted an eyelid when reminded that tomorrow evening he, and his staff, will make everything run smoothly for the Titanic commemorative dinner (100 x 8 course dinner paired with [...]
Robertson Winery has launched their first single-cultivar extra light red wine – The Robertson Winery Extra Light Merlot 2011. This wine, without losing any of its freshness and fruit flavours, at 9.13% alcohol by volume, is around 30% lighter in alcohol than Robertson Winery’s standard Merlot 2011.
Robertson Winery uses the term [...]
They are all related you know. That’s the kind of world we live in.
We all want to be thinner, fitter, more active, use less petrol and spend less money on necessities (roll on the luxuries I say).
Petrol is more expensive, carbs are a no no but protein is expensive, and electricity has gone up in [...]
When the White Star Line recruited for its new fleet of luxury liners they looked for the best.
This is a list of the waiters and chefs of the a la carte restaurant and who died on the night of April 14th/15th 1912, 100 years ago next week.
The cooks were French, and the waiters were Italian
In [...]
The staff in Erawan Thai restaurant are the factor that really make this place work. There are other things too, but the service levels and warmth, friendliness and hospitality of the staff is outstanding.
It’s not suprising really, as they are Thai, and literally a month or two off the plane.
They are also hotel trained in [...]
The Delicious Hotel, in Franschhoek, which opened its doors on 1st December 2011, is set to change the face of South African hospitality.
Conceptualised and designed by the all-woman team behind the world-renowned Le Quartier Français, Delicious unpacks the traditional hotel offering, giving the guest everything they need without the additional wallet-lightening add-ons.
Although Delicious is new [...]
Recession? What recession?
The latest Scotch Whisky Association sales figures for 2011 make for sobering reading.
People all over the world are drinking more and more of the ‘auld crathur. Young or old, South American and Asian, American and European.
This must all be good news for the British Tax Man. Do the Scots think they will achieve [...]
It’s Friday – let’s get in the mood.
It’s also Oesfees weekend, and to get you in the mood we are running a small competition to ask readers to guess what this device is.
First in will win a Heritage Farm Tour at Solms Delta followed by a meal for two at Fyndraii Restaurant, prepared for you [...]
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