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  • La Mouette Autumn Tasting Menu 2013

    Admit it, you have felt that chill in the air every morning and evening. The sun is coming up later, and we aren’t eating dinner in what feels like the middle of the day. When I moved to CT to study here, and we’d go to clubs at 8:30pm and the sun was still shining, […] More

  • League of Beers Event

    Our lovely friends at the League of Beers have been busy. What? You don’t know who they are? WHAT? Ok. 3 young South Africans who banded together to save the worrrrrrrrldddddd (from a dire lack of craft beer options). Check out their website here. But back to them being busy. Last year we helped them […] More

  • Craft Trattoria Review

    Durban. The land of eternal summer. Warm seas, bright skies. My hometown. Boy, was I glad to leave the “city of bland” for Cape Town when I was 18. I go back twice a year to see my family, and in recent years things seem to have been stirring. There are actually new places to […] More

  • Taste of Cape Town 2013 Info

    A few people have asked what you get for your buck at the Taste of Cape Town. Well, A LOT. Check out all these features PLUS find out how you can win tickets at the end of this post! Tickets! Get your tickets!  “As part of our commitment to Cape diners and an energetic food […] More

  • SASSI Seafood Circle

    The world is going green. It’s nothing new. Turn off the lights. Use biodegradable things. Don’t chop down all the forests. Ya know, the usual. What some people struggle to realise is that going green applies to what we eat, too. SASSI and Pick n Pay have taken on an initiative to educate consumers on […] More

  • Taste of Cape Town 2013 Competitions

    We’re awesome (read: the Taste of Cape Town people are awesome). Want to know why? Because to celebrate the weekend we are giving away 5 sets of double tickets to Taste of Cape Town. What? FIVE? WHAAAT?????? FIVE. YES! But first, some of the pop-ups: Bruce Robertson of the Boat House If there is a […] More

  • Taste of Cape Town 2013 is coming!

    We are great fans of the Taste of Cape Town. It is classy, fun, exciting, innovative, and there aren’t 10,000 drunk teenagers knocking over your drink. The lovely humans from Taste of Cape Town 2013 have given us some (read: a lot) of tickets to give away, and it all starts tomorrow. SO WATCH THIS […] More

  • Monks Chinese Giveaway (comp closed)

    It’s Monday. The least fun day of the week. You are probably on a Ramfest come-down. Or your legs hurt from the Argus. Or you’re depressed because you didn’t go to Ramfest. Or guilty because you didn’t do the Argus. Alternatively you weren’t feeling any of these things until I said it, and now you […] More

  • SecretEats launches in Cape Town

    There is always something new going on in our lovely city. We are very lucky human beings. Next up on the menu for us to enjoy, is SecretEATS. It’s a secret, shhhh… (so is the fact that I copied the rest of this info off their PR message. Shhh…) SecretEATS is an exclusive dining experience […] More

  • Spier Wine Estate Review

    The other day, I was asked how much I knew about Spier Wine Farm. “I’ve been to Spier before. I went to a market there. And I had my graduation there. Lot’s of trees. Yeah, I know Spier”, I replied. “No, Kayli, no you don’t”. Spier Wine Farm is a whole lot more than I […] More

  • V&A Market Review

    Cape Town is full of markets. They’re scattered all over the place. The V&A Market Wharf re-launched last week, and it has different angle. An angle I quite like. First up, it’s open Wednesday – Sunday every week. Secondly, instead of only selling products and ready-made food, you can go there to buy your necessities. […] More

  • VandA Market Launch

    Us Capetonians love a market. Sitting in the sun, eating different foods, drinking different drinks, judging strangers… I mean, ya.. Well.. hmm.. let’s be honest, this is Cape Town. And now there is a new, very central market and it comes with a harbor view at the V&A Waterfront. The official launch is this Saturday […] More