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Richard’s Supper Stage & Bistro a welcome new Sea Point entertainment venue
A chance Facebook post about Richard’s Supper Stage & Bistro earlier yesterday took me to the entertainment venue last night, and I was delighted to meet entertainment legend and director/producer...
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Mezepoli Meze and Wine Bar Sweet and FNB Sour Service Awards!
The Sweet Service Award goes to Mezepoli Meze and Wine Bar in Camps Bay, for hosting the members of the Camps Bay Guest House Association for lunch last week. The restaurant has a sister restaurant at...
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Steenberg’s Bistro Sixteen82 : ‘Taking Tapas to Turkey’ a Turkish delight!
We were invited to try the new themed Tapas dinners at Steenberg’s Bistro Sixteen82, my first evening visit to one of my favourite restaurants headed by one of the nicest and most honest chefs. We...
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Many Mediterranean-style restaurants open in Cape Town!
Despite one of the worst winters ever experienced by the Cape hospitality industry, most restaurants appear to have survived it. A surprise trend is the number of Mediterranean style restaurants...
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‘Chopped South Africa’: first SA professional chef reality TV competition show!
‘Chopped South Africa’ was launched at Giggling Gourmet Jenny Morris’ studio in De Waterkant yesterday, to publicise the 10 programme Food Network series on DStv channel 175, commencing on Wednesday 23...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 19 December
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * South Africa is the most attractive tourist destination in Africa, overtaking Egypt for the first time, and is on the Top 25 global tourism destination list,...
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Bree Street: Cape Town’s favourite restaurant street!
Slowly but surely Bree Street in the Cape Town city centre has become the most talked about restaurant street, with ten new restaurants having opened in the past twelve months, and more are to come. We...
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Restaurant Review: Sirocco in Knysna more than loadshedding problems,...
I had been led to believe that one of the better restaurants in Knysna is Sirocco, and I do recall having eaten there once before, when it was more of a fine-dining restaurant. I was very disappointed...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 14 September
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * The announcement last week of the discovery of a new hominid species Homo Naledi at The Cradle of Humankind at Maropeng, and its international media coverage...
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Summary of #JAN TV series episode 5 on viaTV: ‘A boy’s first superhero’!
Episode 5 of the JAN TV series of nine episodes broadcast weekly on viaTV, and dedicated to our country’s best chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen of JAN restaurant in Nice, focused on the...
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Mercado de San Miguel puts beautiful Madrid food on a plate!
I had not heard of the Mercado San Miguel Food Market in Madrid until the Hotel receptionist Davide told me about it, he not knowing of my interest in food. Compared to the TimeOut Market in Lisbon,...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 57 of Level 3 Adjusted, 20...
Saturday 20 February 2021, Day 57 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 332 of Lockdown Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a lovely relaxed day; for finding Version 3 of the Jacques Pauwgate story on Daily Maverick...
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Anatoli Restaurant celebrates sharing Mediterranean cuisine, one of oldest...
Anatoli Mediterranean Restaurant has been serving Modern Turkish cuisine for the past 37 years in its home in Napier Street in De Waterkant. Originally created in 1984, Turkish Chef Tayfun Aras...
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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 59 of Level 3 Adjusted, 22...
Monday 22 February, 2021, Day 59 of Level 3 Adjusted, Day 334 of Lockdown Corona Gratitude #Grateful for a 22 C day, with no wind; for Minsky coming home early this morning, after another night of...
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Meet Chef Prim Reddy of Indian Chapter: 2021 Top 10 Woman Chef!
Chef Prim Reddy of Indian Chapter in Bloubergstrand is a 2021 Top 10 Woman Chef, and wins a bottle of Adhara Premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Chef Prim has published an award-winning Cookbook...
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MasterChef SA Season 4 2022 announces 20 home cook contestants!
M-Net is slowly rolling out details about its MasterChef Season 4, set to air on 28 February for the first time, at 18h00, on Mondays – Thursdays. We know the names of the three new judges...
View ArticleBeloved Carte Blanche presenter Derek Watts passes away.
Today Derek Watts, the well-known, respected, and loved Carte Blanche TV presenter, passed away. He was 74 years old. He was a presenter for 35 years. News 24 writes, quoting his long-standing fellow...
View ArticleOpen Letter to the Camps Bay CID Steering Committee.
Yesterday I attended the first meeting of the proposed Camps Bay CID. It is to have three legs: Crime prevention, Homelessness prevention, and Environment/Cleanliness. The Steering Committee is heavily...
View ArticleChef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen becomes WWF Ambassador
Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen of the JAN Restaurant Group has announced that he is a new Ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund. The article in his weekly newsletter of 25 August follows below:...
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