There’s invites and there’s invites. One on board a ship is very unusual, and I decided to go as the ship is A. huge and B. it would be moored (I get seasick), and C. it’s the new SA Agulhas II, South Africa’s new Polar exploration ship.
The second set of good reasons was that the [...]
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The worst thing about Winter is that you begin to feel it will never end……. That makes going out all the more tough, as the prospect of half empty restaurants and cold draughty rooms does not appeal too much.
That’s where La Mouette in Seapoint score so highly. They have crackling log fores in each room [...]
The irony, the absolute irony.
Hot off the wires this morning comes the report that Chinese producers of wine have asked their government to investigate cheap imports which, they say, are hurting local producers efforts to develop the market.
Sounds familar?
They claim that imports of wine, especially from Europe, has increased 5 times since 2008 and now [...]
Barack Obama is brewing his own beer in the White House. What’s the world coming to?
President Obama has revealed that the White House has installed a microbrewery that produces both light and a dark ales.
Well, I suppose if you were President of the most powerful nation on earth you wouldn’t be worried what people think [...]
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Luke Dale-Roberts is opening a pop up restaurant for the coming ski season in Verbier, Switzerland.
It will be located in the Hotel Farinet which overlooks the main square in Verbier. Luke and his sous chef, Nicholas Wilkinson, will venture up to Switzerland in November to start the process of devising menus, sourcing local produce and [...]
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Cape Rock hails from Vredendal on the West Coast. So light you could even enjoy it slightly chilled. Succulent red fruit with an extremely soft finish.
Vins D’Orrance. Made by Christophe Durand. A classic. Elegant and inviting with layers of flavour, this wine is always a winner.
Lam Syrah is from the Lammershoek Farm, and is a [...]
A Cape Town Winter; rain and wind gusting off the mountain. Dark mornings, short days, hibernating Capetonians. No one wants to go out, the restaurants are freezing, not set up for Winter at all.
Throw another log on the fire, slide further under the duvet and see if there is anything decent on the TV, now [...]
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The last time I ate in the Wijnhuis in Newlands I gave it a bad write up. This is not something I like to do, as I usually try to ferret out places that I’d recommend that people go and eat in. It’s too easy to pick the bad places and write about them.
I wrote;
” [...]
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Waterkloof have brought out two new wines under the Peacock Ridge range – a Chenin Blanc and a Shiraz.
They cost R59 a bottle each, and are described as “rounder… and more fruit forward”.
Both wines come from old bush vines in the foot of the Paardeberg mountains in the Swartland and from the Helderberg region.
The winemaker, [...]
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The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Français has had an interior design overhaul.
Theatre and set designer, Herbert Janse (and Margot’s brother) flew in from Holland to oversee the redesign and has created a look which mirrors international food trends; away from the stiffness and formality of ‘fine dining’
There’s an informality to the design that sees [...]
A while ago I wrote about the pork you can get from Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants;
“Our pigs have become pretty fussy eaters; acorns and shrubs are what they’re after ….. are always foraging….. Always moving rocks…. Always digging….. Always burrowing…their neck muscles have developed. Seriously developed. Like if-Arnie-was-a-pig-he’d-want-this-neck-developed.”
Some flippin’ meat that……
Now it’s the turn [...]
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