La Mouette in Seapoint is one year old this weekend. It’s been wonderful to see them start from scratch and in the relatively short space of 12 months secure their well deserved place in the fabric of top of Cape Town restaurants.
The warm welcomes from Mari Vigar and her staff have helped this, as have the crackling log [...]
We are delighted that Chef Henry Vigar has provided us with a recipe for one of the dishes that has made the food at La Mouette famous in the short space of time it has been open.
Shirley Griffiths, of Vino Pronto on Orange Street, has also kindly agreed to do the wine pairing for this delicious [...]
Yotam Ottolenghi got his masters in philosophy at the University of Tel Aviv and became a journalist on a daily newspaper.
He threw it all in, presumably after philosophising about it, and came to London and trained as a pastry chef in some of London’s top restaurants, including Rowly Leighs’ Kensington Place.
He then opened a series of [...]
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After the launch of Evita Bezuidenhouts ‘Kossie Sikelela’ cookbook in the Cape Quarter during the week (more later) we decided to escape the darling clutches of one old queen and head into the warm embrace of another.
Or should I say Duchess, as we found ourselves at a table beside the tiny kitchen in the Duchess [...]
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