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  • FoodBlogCT News Week 43 2012

    Thursday, the 25th October The World’s Strongest Beer (65%) is being produced in Scottland Paging the Guinness World Records. A Scottish brewery claims it has produced the world’s strongest beer, Brewmeister’s Armageddon, with an ABV of 65 percent. [read more] Top 10 Food Trends For 2012 by Forbes Once again, on National Food Day, we […] More

  • The Wellness Cafe Launch Wembley Square

    The Wellness Warehouse Group has added to Wembley Square’s healthy lifestyle offering, with the addition of the uberstylish and uberhealthy Wellness Café, on the ground floor of the trendy Cape Town shopping and office precinct. I was invited to the launch of the Wellness Café last week where journalists, bloggers and influencers were hosted to […] More

  • P.I.S.C.O Bar

    Keenwa – located in the Cape Town City Centre – will also provide patrons with a trendy drinks/cocktail bar upstairs, called Pisco bar. It is the first and only bar that offers the Peruvian liquor Pisco! What is Pisco? Pisco is a colorless grape brandy produced in Peru. Pisco was developed by Spanish settlers in the […] More

  • Keenwa

    Keenwa opened its doors in December 2010 in the Cape Town City Centre. The location is very exciting because the whole area is becoming more vibrant and more of a destination. The building itself is a gorgeous double storey Victorian. In a few months it has come a long way from a motorbike accessory shop […] More

  • Gordon Ramsay puts Checkers to the test

    Internationally renowned chef Gordon Ramsay has put local supermarket chain Checkers and their butchery to the test. Chosen because of his reputation as the world’s toughest food critic, Ramsay appears in a new Checkers’ advertising campaign endorsing their premium meat ranges. The famous British chef, known for his no-holds-barred attitude when evaluating food and chefs […] More

  • 10.000 Twitter Followers Giveaway Celebration

    The weekend marked a pretty awesome Twitter milestone for FoodBlogCT – our 10,000th follower! We want to thank all of our our followers (even the occasional bot and fake pornstar) for helping us reach this target. We also appreciate all your support and for being a part of our daily online conversation. We have been […] More

  • FoodBlogCT News Week 42 2012

    Thursday, the 17th October SA hospital figures for food spend are wildly inaccurate It should have been a straight forward story. The Department of Health yesterday released figures showing how much every hospital in England spends per day, per patient on food. In an accompanying press release the new Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt expressed understandable […] More

  • Catering Services in Cape Town

    We are highlighting a few catering services in Cape Town on this blog post. Be it for weddings, baby showers, birthdays or office functions, these restaurants will make sure that the event is a success! Please contact the restaurants listed below directly to find more information on their catering offerings. This list will be updated […] More

  • FoodBlogCT News Week 41 2012

    Thursday, the 11th October The Real Bears is an impressive animated short film that was produced in order to tell the truth about the effects of Soda consumption When it comes to making people feel good about a brand, no one does it more skillfully than Coca-Cola. Picture a perfectly multicultural, sun-dappled chorus wanting to […] More

  • FoodBlogCT News Week 40 2012

    Thursday, the 4th of October Planning to visit Italy any time soon? Rome Tourists Face Fines For Snacking Visitors to Rome may want to carefully consider where they opt to break for a snack. A new law adopted by the city council forbids eating around around many of the monuments in Rome’s historic city center, […] More

  • Cape Town Summer / Spring Specials

    This is our list of Cape Town Restaurant specials for the spring and summer months of 2012/2013. If you want to search specials by a specific date, please head over to our dedicated Cape Town restaurant specials section. This post will be continuously updated listing all the specials that we have added to the calendar to provide […] More

  • FoodBlogCT News Week 39 2012

    Thursday, the 27th of September Special-of-the-Day: Prawn Specials with a great view of Table Mountain [read more] The reason I don’t want to be a restaurant manager. Brawl over cold Potatoes Manatee County deputies have their eyes peeled for an unknown female assailant who allegedly beat the manager of Cody’s Roadhouse in Bradenton after being […] More