We’ve all had moments where we’d have loved a drink, but couldn’t get one.
It’s difficult to swig beer from a bottle while at a Parents Teacher meeting. And the ripoff prices for Budweiser at the World Cup Matches left a sour taste in many peoples mouths.
The solution?
Stealth Beverage Devices. SBD’s.
These are two products dreamt up by a [...]
Maze at One&Only closes.
It has been rumoured for months, speculated about, whispered between foodies, journalists, bloggers, gossipers and last but not least, staff.
Finally the inevitable has happened. The old horse has finally been taken out and shot. The knackers in this case were not the owners or management, but Cape Town customers who have given this restaurant [...]
In his first interview about his new position as Executive Chef at Tokara, Richard Carstens spills the beans to Spill.co.za on his food, food critics, his life influences and his wife’s miso soup.
Renowned restaurateur, Wilhelm Kuhn, is taking over Tokara to run it, and has hired Richard Carstens as his Executive Chef. Set in a spectacular location [...]
The Wijnhuis nestles in Newlands village, the heart of a very leafy spot in the Southern Suburbs.
It looks interesting from the outside. The restaurant dominates the whole of a first floor of a small shopping complex. There are huge windows facing on to the village and on warmer days they are opened up.
To enter the [...]
“If a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” A.A. Milne.
One of life’s great pleasures is eating perfectly made roasted potatoes with your meal.
Most people I know like them, but far too often they are soggy, leathery, underdone, overdone, soapy or greasy.
I have worked long and hard over the [...]
My mission; to find the freshest fish for sale in Cape Town.
Friends and contacts made helpful suggestions. Kalk Bay?, Willoughby’s? certain supermarkets? a fish shop in Woodstock?
So why the urge to find out more about fish?
Perhaps it had to do with having eaten fish most of the time on my recent trip to Spain, or [...]
Tomato Curry.
Simon Hopkinson is one of my favourite food writers. His other cookery book, Roast Chicken and Other Stories, hoovered up a clutch of international awards. That’s not a surprise, it’s a little gem.
But it’s ‘Week In Week Out’ that I want to take a look at today. Simon doesn’t like modern food fads. He [...]
Stop the presses! Something extraordinary happened this week in the normally fractious world of wine reviewing and commentary.
Something so extraordinary, that it could be equated with news of Helen Zille agreeing with Julius Malema, the bank giving you a refund, or minicab drivers suddenly observing the rules of the road and being courteous.
That extraordinary thing [...]
Where were you born?
Nelspruit, Mpumalanga.
How long have you been in your present job.
Two years at Societi Bistro
What is your favourite dish to cook?
I can’t just mention one dish. I love one pot wonders. Cassoulets or Pea a la François. This is made with chicken stock, bacon, onions and mint. I’m making it right now. I [...]
The Montebello Design Centre is the kind of place that you could wander into and lose yourself for an hour or two.
It’s an attractive sprawl of studios, shops and restaurants set amongst the tall trees of what used to be the outhouses of the former Montebello Estate.
You’ll find jewellery makers, ceramic studios, weavers, printers, sculptors, [...]
It’s 8 o’clock on a Saturday morning and I’m sipping coffee on the terrace of the Jordan Restaurant with top chef George Jardine. The view is nothing short of spectacular.
I’m limbering up for my first ever bread baking course. Every Saturday six people are getting a chance to share George’s love with all things bread [...]
Desmond Ball had a pain in his face being asked by people around Fish Hoek “When are you going to make some of the original chutney like what Mrs.Ball’s made?” He had to endure complaints that they’d changed the recipe, changed the taste, changed everything. It was nothing like the original.
Now Desmond is the Great [...]
Falling cloudberries, gravadlax and strawberry tops, my grandfather’s chips, cinnamon and orange blossom water, rice pudding, spare ribs and stroganoff, rose petals and jasmine in the summer, these are just some of Tessa Kiros’s food memories.
These memories are a taste of what’s to come if you get your hands on Falling Cloudberries.
This cookery book is [...]
I need a stew right now. This is stew weather in Cape Town. Warm and bright during the day and bitterly cold at night. This is hearty warming food. Stews are one of my favourite types of recipes.
Stews are the ultimate in real, comfort food. I also love slow cooking. For me a stew is [...]
This is a true story of a credit card scam. It happened before the World Cup.
A group of people go for lunch in a restaurant in a popular tourist location in Cape Town. Some are South Africans, some are overseas visitors.
They have an enjoyable lunch, the locals happy and pleased to be showing their visitors [...]
Roast Lemon and Garlic Chicken. Potatoes, roasted in goose fat, golden and crispy on the outside. Lightly steamed asparagus and some caramelised onions with roast parsnip.
Food sorted, now what to drink? Nothing too heavy please. No tannic Cabernet Sauvignons or Pinotages bursting out of the bottle. Let’s play safe and go for a light, soft, unintimidating wine.
A [...]
This is my final instalment from Spain. What a trip it has been. Full of foodie delights, memorable meals and stunning sights. And the people, well the Spanish are warm, friendly, helpful and willing to please. Such a delight.
What I like about the area I chose to visit is that it hasn’t been destroyed by [...]
Salvador Dali was born in Figures. Today the centre of this town is dominated by his wonderful museum. In we pop to take a look and we are not disappointed. It’s wild and wacky and particularly good for children. There’s nothing boring or predictable about Dali’s work, that’s for sure.
Dali was very serious about food [...]
It’s Day 3 in Spain, and I’m leaving Barcelona to go north, up the coast.
This is an area of inlets, hidden coves, and pines trees spilling down to the azure blue sea. Roads are twisting and narrow. Visibly sublime and with serious eating potential. It’s also pirate country, well, at least it was in the [...]
It’s day two in Barcelona and I’m psyching myself up for a visit to one of my favourite restaurants in the world.
It’s called Cal Pep. Just north of the Placa de Palau at Placa des les Olles 8, Cal Pep doesn’t look like anything special from the outside. I’ve eaten here many times. The owner, [...]
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