There’s nothing nicer than a light lunch under the oak leaves, or a picnic, washed down with a chilled bottle of Rose. It has to be one of life’s great pleasures.
In fact, in France, where they know about these things, rose wine sales outstrip sales of white wines.
Rose used to be a byword for bubblegum [...]
This is the name of a delightful short movie showing in The Labia on Orange Street.
It’s a documentary that looks at the life and work of a remarkable man – Jiro Ono, and his two sons; Takashi and Yoshikazu.
Jiro is 85 years old, and is a National Treasure in Japan where he owns and operates [...]
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Bizerca is one of the best restaurants in Cape Town, actually in South Africa.
It won an Alto Top 10 Places to Eat Cape Town award a few weeks ago. That was a public vote, and the competition was pretty hectic.
If you ate Laurent Deslandes’ food in France you’d think that you got lucky, as decent [...]
Smartphone technology to aid sustainable seafood choices
I get the whole SASSI thing.
Green is ok, red is a no no, and orange means think twice….or three times and I get a bit confused here…..some fish are ok if caught one way, but not another.
You can’t phone a hotline to ask someone if a particular fish [...]
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I love eating quail. They are the tastiest little birds, and have none of the gaminess that some small birds have. Plus, they are getting more widely available now – Wild Peacock, Gogo’s in Newlands, Supermeats in Kenilworth all stock them.
Here’s an easy recipe which cooks the quail in 15 minutes. Once you get over [...]
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What? SUMMER ELEGANCE AT THE HOUSE OF KRONE,
Where? TWEE JONGE GEZELLEN, TULBAGH
When? Mid day until sunset – SATURDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2012
More please! – Vintage treasures, beautiful dresses, summer elegance …
The Summer Elegance festival is a special day in the South African bubbly calendar.
Sushi & oyster bars, olives by Groote Vallei, cheese [...]
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Here are the results of the first ever public vote for the ALTO Top 10 Places to Eat in Cape Town.
They are, in alphabetical order;
BIZERCA BISTRO
DEAR ME
EL BURRO
LA COLOMBE
LA MOUETTE
MASSIMO’S
SOCIETI BISTRO
THE FOODBARN
THE ROUNDHOUSE
THE TEST KITCHEN
Congratulations to the ALTO Top 10 winners, the runners up, and the 100 restaurants who made onto the ALTO Top 100 [...]
Attention all Foodies!!
Our Top 10 Places to Eat Cape Town this year is being chosen by means of a public vote.
That’s right, simple.
All you have to do is to pick your favourite restaurant from the list of Top 20 below.
Please send your vote to clare@spill.co.za
Only one vote per person.
These awards are the only ones that [...]
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100 South African women gathered at the Table Bay Hotel last Saturday November 10th to sip, swirl and taste their way through 200 wines in order to decide their favourite 100.
It was a fun, informal occasion, and we welcomed a diverse group of women of all creeds, colours, backgrounds and tastes in wine.
They took their [...]
Rudi Liebenberg opens the Oasis Bistro this weekend at the Mount Nelson.
He has been the Executive Chef there for nearly four years, and I chatted to him recently about what the last few years have meant for him.
“When I initially arrived at the Mount Nelson I thought I would do what I had to do [...]
Watch Vicky Gurovich mix, blend, pipe and create her way to become the Huletts Pastry Chef of the Year 2012.
Competing against some of the best pastry chefs in South Africa, Vicky won the title for her three creations of cocoa streusel with peanut and praline ganache, banana caramel and Valrhona Nyangbo chocolate; granadilla and [...]
We’ve all been there, happily nibbling on a biscuit and downing a mug of your finest Jamacian Blue Mountain, when suddenly…the phone rings, you reach over, hit the mug of coffee and over it goes, all over the keyboard…..
Or the baby vomit projectiles on it, or you spill a glass of wine. That’s what I [...]
This is a light-hearted idea with an important concept and message behind it, World Egg Day 2012 will see the international Egg Industry doing their bit in a pledge to feed the world’s undernourished and underfed people; one egg at a time.
Established by the International Egg Commission (IEC), World Egg Day is celebrated every year [...]
Merchants Cafe will open on Long Street on October 25th.
It’s a collaboration between Hanneli Rupert (she of concept store fame, from across the road – Merchants on Long) and Larry Steenkamp of Woodlands Eatery.
It will be managed by Will Hobson, who recently ran the Field Office.
The interior design is being done by Liam Mooney Studios [...]
Passing Clarke’s on Bree Street last week I thought someone had left a big trailer outside from which the wheels had been stolen. But no, I was informed, that thing there is a Parklet. That’s right, Parklets.
Not Piglets, Parklets.
What are they? Well, according to my learned friends over at www.futurecapetown.com they are;
” small urban spaces [...]
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People who remember Cafe Dijon fromStellenbosch will remember that it was quite authentically French. It looked it from the outside and felt like it from inside.
The Cape Town version (now that the outlet in Stellenbosch is closed) is much airier, and is more spacious too. There’s also a lovely outside space which should come into [...]
Posted in Restaurants Tags: anatoli's, angus beef, cafe dijon, dijon cut, greenpoint, napier st, sarah and johan du plessis, stellenbosch 1 Comment read more »
Sam Linsell is a very successful South African food blogger and stylist.
Her first cookery book has just been published and not surprisingly it’s called ‘Drizzle and Dip’, after her blog.
I love it. It’s divided into three sections : Morning, Noon and Night.
That makes sense to me, as these are the times we are meant to [...]
You don’t need to be a wine snob to enjoy the La Capra Festival new range of wines by the glass sized portion.
This is a packaging and product trend that took off in the UK, and spread to Australia where it also proved a hit.
It’s all about making wine casual and fun, out-doorsey, as [...]
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Anyone publishing a new magazine these days would be excused for being a little mad or knowing something we all don’t.
Brave man, or woman, either way.
The migration of readers and advertisers to digital outlets is increasing from a little wave a few years ago to a full-on Tsunami.
And so too is the South African love [...]
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The only drawback about an evening at the theatre is the mad scramble to eat before a play or a show. You rush your meal and then hotfoot it to the venue, and spend the rest of the evening worrying about the drink at the interval, and where the loos are.
Well no longer. That’s one [...]
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