Caffé Villagio is a Mediterranean coffee shop-restaurant situated in Sable Square Mall, on the border of Century City, and trades 7 days a week, offering an extensive all-day-breakfast range and specialises in Mediterranean cuisine such as shwarma (lamb, pork and chicken), home-made pastries, meze (tapas) and sweets. The menu also offers home-made burgers, gourmet sandwiches,…
Positive Heroes is an educational, awareness and self-help action campaign that draws on the huge power that positive role models living with HIV have to change people’s responses, to a deadly epidemic of silence and shame. They have teamed up with Keenwa & P.I.S.C.O Bar to bring you a party fit for Inca Gods & Goddesses …
The Lookout Deck Hout Bay arguably boasts one of the best views in the Western Cape. Situated on the water’s edge in the Hout Bay Harbour, the restaurant boasts breathtaking mountain and ocean views. The Lookout Deck will also bring great entertaining live music during December to the Hout Bay Harbour with Francois playing every…
Thursday, the 13th December The Cookie Dough Outbreak In the video Scott, who is one of the team behind the Modernist Cuisine cookbooks, explains the science behind eating raw cookie dough and why it may not be as safe as some us think. [read more] Farmworkers recive food aid Western Cape farmworkers received food and…
Jack Black Beer and Shoestring Productions have teamed up in time for this year’s Wavescape Film Festival to launch their latest craft beer. The collaboration was born from a love of surfing, a passion for the ocean and all that its waters encompass. The launch of our new Great White Weiss beer couldn’t have come…
If you’re a brandy lover you would have heard of Van Ryns Distillery out in Stellenbosch. (Plus I wrote a Van Ryns review on a dinner of theirs earlier this year.) Looking for an Xmas pressie? If you buy a bottle of award-winning Van Ryn’s 20 Year Old 750ml for R1 225, you’ll get a leather…
Tuesday, the 4th of December David Beckham to open restaurant with Ramsay The 37-year-old Los Angeles Galaxy soccer player is teaming up with the ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ TV chef for the eatery and he is “excited” to be venturing into a new business.[read more] The White House Gingerbread House There’s no mistaking that the holidays are…
This summer, Spier is bringing The Great Gatsby to life in an interactive stage adaptation which will be on show on selected evenings until the 31st December 2012. The story focuses on a young man, Jay Gatsby, who, after falling in love with a woman from the social elite – Daisy – , makes a…
It isn’t often that a restaurant seems to have the perfect amount of staff. They normally succumb to the following problems: Too few: you wait 45 minutes to get your drink, “the” waiter is a sweaty, panicky mess and when your chicken arrives at your table, it’s beef. Too many: they stare at you from…
La Mouette is well known for their superb tasting menu. And when I say superb, I mean it. It really is a complete work of art. But the tasting menu is not all that La Mouette do so well – their a la carte menu is truly remarkable, affordable and has something that everyone can…
The Stellenbosch Wine Festival, the flagship event of South Africa’s iconic wine region, stomps its way into a new era this January with an expanded ten-day program designed to showcase in a bigger, better and bolder fashion the delightfully diverse town of Stellenbosch from 25 January until 3 February 2013. NEW-LOOK TEN DAY STELLENBOSCH WINE…
The Taj Cape Town has been bringing the winelands into the heart of the city showcasing a different area through their food and wine. Each month, a top chef from a chosen wine region in South Africa was invited to present a four-course dinner paired to local wines from estates in the specific area. The…
