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  • Avo Up Your Heritage Month: Avo Chakalaka Recipe!

    Avo Up Your Heritage Month! As we celebrate Heritage Month, the home-grown South African avocado deserves a place at the heart of the celebrations, especially on Heritage Day, or Braai Day, when friends and family come together around the fire to enjoy good food and each other’s company. From bunny chow and bobotie to chakalaka, […] More

  • Avo Up Your Heritage Month: Avo and Corn Pasta Rice Recipe

    Avo Up Your Heritage Month! As we celebrate Heritage Month, the home-grown South African avocado deserves a place at the heart of the celebrations, especially on Heritage Day, or Braai Day, when friends and family come together around the fire to enjoy good food and each other’s company. From bunny chow and bobotie to chakalaka, […] More

  • Avo Up Your Heritage Month: Baked Potatoes with Whipped Bacon Avo Sauce Recipe

    Avo Up Your Heritage Month! As we celebrate Heritage Month, the home-grown South African avocado deserves a place at the heart of the celebrations, especially on Heritage Day, or Braai Day, when friends and family come together around the fire to enjoy good food and each other’s company. From bunny chow and bobotie to chakalaka, […] More

  • Avontuur Estate: Inside the World of Winemaker Dominique Modena!

    As first light crosses the Helderberg and the vineyards begin to stir, Dominique Modena is already looking towards the season ahead. At Avontuur Estate, globally celebrated wines, thoroughbred horses, and generations of estate heritage share one landscape, giving her the freedom to pursue two lifelong passions. Set between cooling Atlantic breezes and distant views of […] More

  • Spring, Sparkling and Made for Sharing: Meet the Farmhouse Spritz by Groot Phesantekraal

    Groot Phesantekraal celebrates Cap Classique Month with a fresh, savoury take on the classic spritz. As South Africa welcomes the first days of spring and Cap Classique Month gets into full swing, Groot Phesantekraal is inviting wine lovers to raise a glass to the season with a cocktail made for long afternoons, generous tables and […] More

  • Perdeberg Family Festival promises a day of wine, music and family fun | 31 October 2026

    As summer approaches and the Winelands come alive, Perdeberg Wines is getting ready to welcome families to its annual Family Festival on Saturday, 31 October 2026.  A relaxed day out designed to bring together award-winning wine, great food, live music and plenty of fun for the whole family. Set against the backdrop of the Paarl […] More

  • Heritage Day at Perdeberg: A Taste of South African Tradition

    Celebrate South African heritage with wine, food and Paarl hospitality at Perdeberg. This Heritage Day, Perdeberg Wines invites visitors to raise a glass to the flavours, traditions and stories that make South Africa so wonderfully diverse. From a proudly local pizza and wine pairing to a relaxed Heritage Day Date Night, the Paarl cellar is […] More

  • From Breakfasts to Braai Buffets: Urban Umami brings flexible Event Planning to Century City

    Summary: Urban Umami in Century City, Cape Town offers flexible event spaces for intimate private dinners, larger seated functions and cocktail receptions, supported by a broad range of event menus. Options include a R650 Braai Buffet, three buffet menus from R400 per person, a R275 Breakfast Buffet, sushi canapés and set menus from R375 per person. […] More

  • Between Memory and Imagination: Zarah Cassim brings Dreamlike Landscapes to The President Hotel Cape Town

    Summary: In Residence: Zarah Cassim is on view at The President Hotel in Bantry Bay, Cape Town, from 1 September 2026 to 11 January 2027. Presented with Art School Africa, the exhibition features Cassim’s oil paintings exploring landscape, perception, memory and the space between reality and imagination. Art does not always need a white gallery wall […] More

  • Monkeygland Sosaties, Rooibos Chicken and Three Boerewors Styles headline the Hazendal Heritage Day Braai Picnic

    Summary: Hazendal Wine Estate hosts its Heritage Day Braai Picnic on 24 September 2026 from 12:00, bringing South African flavours to the lawns with a picnic basket and live-fire braai. Tickets cost R450 per adult and R250 per child, with local cheeses, charcuterie, salads, Monkeygland-marinated beef sosaties, rooibos-glazed chicken, Looies, regional boerewors and more. Heritage Day […] More