Stanford is a hidden gem. The streets are tree lined and shady. Pretty houses, surrounded by lawns and flower beds, run down to the Bot River.
On a side street you’ll find an unassuming little cottage named Owl’s Barn, and it’s in here that Mariana Esterhuizen and her pony tailed husband Peter run a kitchen and [...]
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Tags: cape overberg, doodskroot, mariana esterhuizen, mariana's, owl's barn, peter esterhuizen, stanford 
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Johan Jordaan, senior winemaker at Spier Wines since 2007, is the 2011 Diners Club Winemaker of the Year. This was announced at a gala event in Paarl on Saturday night (26 November). The Diners Club Young Winemaker of the Year is Matthew van Heerden of
Uva Mira Vineyards.
This [...]
Serves 4.
4 Hake fillets, approx 200g each.
800g potatoes.
2 large tablespoons of wholegrain mustard.
1/2 a cup of milk for the potato mash.
5 baby asparagus per portion.
1 lemon.
2 tablespoons of butter.
Splash of olive oil.
Method.
Peel the potatoes and halve them. I cook them by steaming, but boiling is also good.
Drain them and add the milk and mustard. [...]
Posted in Recipes Tags: mustard mash, pan fried hake, pinot grigio, two oceans 2 Comments read more »
Do one thing and do it well.
Who said that?
I did actually, and it’s the thought that came to mind when I visited a new place in Camps Bay called The Mussel Bar.
With input from Bertus Basson it’s a little place that serves……..and there’s a hint in the name; mussels.
To be more precise; big fat, chubby, [...]
It all just sounds idyllic.
Lounge around the beautiful grounds of the historic Roundhouse restaurant in Camps Bay, soaking in the view down the Atlantic Coast, with the backdrop of the magnificent Twelve Apostles range sweeping down the peninsula, while taking in some of the most chilled live music you can listen to.
That’s the scene this weekend at [...]
Tina Bester has to be one of the most creative pastry chefs I know. I saw her recently putting a rasberry cake together and her little touch of genius was to dust the berries in cocoa power. Simple, sophisticated, but oh so effective.
She has just launched her third cookbook – Celebrate, and it’s all about [...]
Grabbing a bite to eat at Willoughby & Co. in the V&A has always been a bit of a ritual for me, usually after a movie or some shopping.
So to discover that they are breaking the law, and are brazenly open about it, came as a shock.
Here’s what happened.
A bottle of Kikkoman Sauce (red top) was [...]
Posted in Niblets., Restaurants Tags: cameron stewart, consumer protection act, kikkoman sauce, low sodium, michele mirotto, national consumer commission, restaurants association of south africa, rialto foods, v&a, V&A waterfront, wendy alberts, Willoughby & Co., willoughby's 41 Comments read more »
One of my favourite chefs, Luke Dale-Roberts, is coming round for Christmas.
Well, not literally, but the next best thing, his food, is.
That’s because he has created a Christmas range for Woolworths – chutneys, relishes, dressings, pestos; lamb, salmon & sausage, gammon belly, pudding and so on.
Now this is the kind of thing I love – supermarkets [...]
South Africa has one of the world’s most sustainable, ecofriendly wine growing regimes in the world.
In fact, winemakers from Australia and other wine producing countries come here to learn best practices in this area.
One of the leading producers in this area is, without a doubt, Avondale.
Their guiding ethos is “Soil is Life” – Terra Est [...]
What a great idea! The best recipes from Pick n Pay’s Fresh Living magazine brought together into a snappy, beautifully presented, easy to follow recipe book, called The Best of Fresh Living featuring 140 of the Fresh Living teams favourite recipes.
Aimed at busy families, the cost effective recipes are divided into four sections; salads, starters and [...]
I was delighted to get a call from the people at Free World Design to ask me to chose a movie connected with food which would then be the basis for a meal prepared by Jacques Erasmus of Hemelhuijs.
The idea is as simple as it’s creative. Sundowners on the roof, followed by a movie (which I’ll introduce [...]
We had a huge entry - 123 e.mails – the highest we’ve ever had for a competition.
It was a difficult task; to match our panels eventual choice of the ten best restaurants.
Nobody achieved this.
But one person got 8 out of the 10 correctly.
And that person is Michael McKenzie of McGregor and The Waterkant, Cape Town.
We congratulate him, wish [...]
A big congratulations to the 100 Places to Eat that made the Top 100 list. The reaction to the list has been extraordinarily positive.
But the judging didn’t stop there, as the panel had to go on and chose the Top 10 Places to Eat from this list.
Last night, the Top 10 places were revealed to [...]
Here’s a great opportunity to win a prize of a meal for two in each of the Top 10 Places to Eat in Cape Town, as judged by the adjudication panel in the inaugural Fleur du Cap Top 100 Places to Eat Cape Town 2011.
This great prize is worth in excess of R10,000.
This coming [...]
We are pleased and delighted to announce the inaugural Fleur du Cap Top 100 Places to Eat Cape Town 2011.
This is the first time that there has been a focus on Cape Town and the peninsula, and also a first time for the focus to be on all the places that people love to eat in, [...]
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