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WITH so many restaurants in and around Cape Town offering tapas or small plates, it's important to remember it was Fork which led the way when it opened with this concept in 2006. As it approaches its 14th anniversary, it's still one of the best places in town for a bite-sized meal, big or small.…
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Tintswalo Atlantic, the award-winning five-star boutique lodge just metres away from the high-tide mark inside Table Mountain National Park, with panoramic views of Hout Bay Harbour, the dramatic Sentinel mountain peak, and the Atlantic Ocean, reopens today, October 1, following a fire in February,…
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THESE days it seems everyone is at war with each other - carnivores defend their position from behind the carcasses of animals while vegetarians lob Brussels sprouts at them while shielding their vegan friends who are tallying up water consumption while importing plant-based products from the other…
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GOURMET braai food – including vegetarian, vegan and Halaal options – will be on offer at this day-into-night festival at Fort Wynyard in Granger Bay on Tuesday, September 24. Besides the treats from the fires, there will be live entertainment, craft beer, wine tasting, a braai competition, 360…
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SURROUNDED by mountain ranges which give this farm in the Banghoek Valley the protection of a natural amphitheatre, combined with rocky soils, elevations, and cool ocean winds, Oldenburg is uniquely positioned to produce wines which have been coaxed and wrestled from the less-than-friendly terroir –…
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KWV’s range of elite award-winning wines, The Mentors, presented its once-off, limited edition of less than 1000 litres, sequentially numbered bottles of The Mentors Carménère 2017 to a group of media, over lunch at Salsify. Winemaker Izele van Blerk is the best host, making sure everyone had…
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IT'S nothing new to take one holiday and devote the entire month to it. Christmas, Halloween...here in South Africa we have Youth Month, Women's Month (a very sad one), and now Heritage Month. Or Braai Month, if you prefer, as the day of 24th of September is known as both. Braaing is one of…
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AFTER an incredible lunch at La Colombe in Constantia (read about it here) we naturally had high expectations when we followed up with a visit to sister restaurant, La Petite Colombe in Franschhoek. We were not disappointed. La Petite Colombe has but two options: the Chef's Spring Experience…
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AS Desmond Tutu says: "Evita Bezuidenhout is not a woman; Evita Bezuidenhout is a legend." Together with Pieter-Dirk Uys, she has been part of our lives for close to 40 years and to refer to them both as national treasures is not an overstatement. PDU's new show at Theatre On The Bay, #HeTwo, …
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ACCORDING to Wikipedia, "Botrivier is a small town of approximately 10 000 people, situated in the Overberg region of the Western Cape in South Africa." According to those who have farms there - well, two of them anyway - Bot River (as we say in English) is the centre of the universe. Last week a…
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LAST week we attended the inaugural South African Craft Gin Awards, presented by Checkers LiquorShop, at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, where we quickly learned that to taste as many as gins in as short a time as possible, to ditch the tonic (no offence towards Barker & Quin intended). It was a…
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SALSIFY At The Roundhouse is putting the sexy back into Sunday lunches from this weekend, August 25. A bunch of us were invited for a preview and this is what happened. The menu is flexible depending on the availability of ingredients and what can be foraged (some of the dish descriptions…
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