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MONDAY NIGHT MAGIC, hosted by Cape Town Magic Club, launched its fifth season this week with a spectacular bonanza showcase in its new venue: the five-star Taj Cape Town. The historic building was once a bank, and the intimate theatre is located in the underground vault...where there is no…
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WHAT is better than food and beer? Food made with beer, that's what. For years, the Beerhouse team has been championing the beer revolution in South Africa and has now teamed up with Ultimate Braai Master winner and Laat Die Potte Prutpresenter, Piet Marais (and his team), to create a food menu…
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SUNDOO is the brainchild of restaurateur and chef Seelan Sundoo, who has not one but two namesake restaurants in Cape Town; his other is Seelan at the V&A Waterfront. This small eatery in Regent Road, Sea Point, pays tribute to Seelan's roots with authentic South Indian dishes, full of…
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WITHIN months of opening last year, Foxcroft Restaurant & Bakery Constantia won the Eat Out Retail Capital New Restaurant of the Year. It was pretty damn good then; it's even better now. Chef Glen Williams has launched  a new menu with which he told us he is "much happier". It reflects…
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IT was a momentous occasion - our first road trip in nearly two years. The reason for the delay is valid: Divine Lady D was with child. Now that the infant has grown sufficiently, it is time to get back out there and this was a jolly good way to begin. Our destination was Bot Rivier in the…
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IT may sound like a contradiction but the title of Black Orchid Burlesque's Modern Vintage Varietease Burlesque Showat Café Roux in Noordhoek this Saturday is a fusion of spectacle and glamour from yesteryear with a sexy modern edge. "Modern burlesque has taken on many forms, but it has the…
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THIS job has some great perks, among them getting to try new products and services as they arrive on the market. When they are delivered to my door, even better. Last week, South Africa's first craft gin club was launched. The Gin Box (also literally) brings us gin lovers a beautifully packaged…
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ART, wine, craft beer, five-star accommodation, gourmet cuisine... the Leeu Collection encompasses all that is luxurious and desirable. Among the properties is Marigold, the first classic Indian cuisine restaurant in Franschhoek village, which opened towards the end of last year. You'll find it…
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IT'S not often I will go to a mall on purpose, least of all to eat. But following an invitation to come see the new revitalised look of PRIMI in Canal Walk, along with the information there is a fairly new breakfast menu, I was pleasantly surprised. Unarmed with the advance information supplied…
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EVEN as the plan for the four-course tasting experience at Shio was being laid out, frissons of excitement were making me shiver with anticipation. Shio Modern Japanese Izakaya is one of Cheyne Morrisby's restaurants, along with Cheyne's and Lucky Bao in Hout Bay and with more in the pipeline,…
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IT makes me terribly anxious when the cellar master says only 525 bottles of a rather spectacular MCC were filled, and they then proceed to pour several of those for tasting, and hand out several more as media gifts. Not that it stopped me from accepting my own glorious bottle of Lourensford…
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JONNY DOWNTOWN's response to the brief "look after the media today" was to ply me with bubbly, then put me in the Globe Of Death with a guy on a motorcycle. Best. Day. Ever. Jonny knows me and knows what I like. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Going out to Stellenbosch to The Fantastic Grifizzi…
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