Explore the African seas through decadent and familiar seafood flavours, with celebrated local chefs as your food guides.
Fresh local catches and new eatery beginnings with Galjoen restaurant. Here’s the lowdown…
Tag: fine dining
Culinary Quest: Chefs Warehouse at Beau Constantia
Is this a bucket list Cape fine dining restaurant that can feed your body, add new favourites to your wine rack, AND add flavour to your IG feed?
Find out if this South African eatery along the Constantia Wine Route is a fit for you…
Culinary Quest: SALON, by Chef Luke Dale Roberts
Welcome to the world, according to Chef Luke Dale Roberts.
SALON is a new biographical concept restaurant in Cape Town, with intriguing ‘Journey’ and ‘Explorer’ Menus brought to you sourced, seasoned, skilfully prepared and plated, by a team as talented and resourceful as they are diverse and passionate.
Travel South Africa: 5 Ways to Keep Entertained During Easter Time
Easter time entertainment comes in many forms. Take a trip on the wild side, or settle in for something cosier – either way, Here are 5 Tips to Enjoy Easter 2023…
Culinary Quest: Why is Breakfast so Great?
Ruminating on just why I enjoy breakfast so much – a meal not given as much fan fare as lunch or dinner, but so deeply steeped in rapturous flavor and culture…atleast, from my foodie experiences.
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Pintxos Bar Review
Pintxos Bar makes a compelling argument on why you should never leave…
Paris Foodie Escapades: La Place Review
Spacious intimacy, gastronomy, Michelin ratings, and memories of Paris – in this write-up, I remember the Eiffel, rockstar chefs, good food, and great company…and muse on my travel traumas a bit!
Paris Foodie Escapades: Chez Ribe Review
Tired of pushing through crowds around the Eiffel, or walking through the burning heat?
Chez Ribe is a convenient stop-over near the Invalides, where you can stay within your daily budget, with a value-for-money seated lunch somewhere cool, clean and interesting.
Paris Foodie Escapades: Le Bistro Marbeuf Review
I may not have had a full meal here, but the dessert at Le Bistro Marbeuf, bears all the exemplary marks of an establishment unyielding in delivering foodie nirvana.
Paris Foodie Escapades: Café de Flore Review
Thanks to the late Anthony Bourdain and a look at my photography archives, I ruminate on the infamous Café de Flore in Paris, and the story that got me there, in style…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: La Petite Ferme Review
I guess that in light of my upcoming trip to Paris, french cuisine is beginning to fully enter into my foodie rotation. The French have a reputation of refinement – proud of their centuries old heritage, which has become the penultimate standard of all that is classy and cultured. There’s something to be said for…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Coco Safar Review
There have been wars waged over territory housing nectar of the gods. Blood spilled in the quest to own Mother Nature’s most inspired creations. Human’s lust for the finer things knows no bounds, which is evident in the modern landscape, sculpted intricately to showcase excess, mastery and delight. Cape Town has not remained untouched by…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Waverley Hills Review
“It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they’ll keep coming back.” – Dave Thomas You could probably count, on one hand, the number of places you would willingly travel hours to, for a single meal. The food needs to have…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Norval Foundation Review
There is such a profound awareness to Nina Simone having said that it is “an artist’s duty to reflect the times.” Today’s foodie escapade, is beholden to a huge and new South African cultural offering: The Norval Foundation. Considering the sum of its parts, The Norval Foundation can be summed up as a relatively new…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Upper Bloem Review
Like everything worth doing and having in the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, good food is an investment that yields substantial dividends over time. My latest foodie find, understands that irrespective of the variegated cultures intrinsically tied to the fabric of the Mother City’s ethos, eating has a universality which shepherds all kinds of people…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Bilboa Restaurant Review
Maybe I’m an outlier in more than one way. I seem to be one of the few people who get a wonderful dining experience when I deign to visit Cape Town’s most celebrated luxury strip: Camps Bay. I’ve reclined on luxurious seats while having overpriced quality food, and I have sipped on a wealth of…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: The Shortmarket Club Review
It’s Winter Menu-Palooza in the Mother City right now. In the grand style of major cities around the world, winter and the fall season mean chefs rolling out Prix Fixe – or “fixed price” – menus. In Cape Town, every restaurant, bistro and cafe, is thirsty for your money and company. With so many eateries aspiring…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Kyoto Garden Sushi Review
The exterior design seems very carefully decorated to evoke a most zen Japanese ambiance, which is followed through with the warm minimalist interiors…and an incredible culinary adventure.
Travel South Africa: Escape to Allée Bleue Wine Estate
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.” – Lord Byron Fall is seen as the season of death and decay, nature shedding its past…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Allée Bleue Review
You’re sitting at work, bored and angry at whoever decided you needed to be born without your permission. Pack your bag, get in a car, and head for Franschhoek – I’ve got a place for you to unwind. Franschhoek is known for its serenity and lazy sunny days, but it is celebrated for its wine…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: RAFAEL Lebanese Cafe Review
Name any human that doesn’t adore food variety? Yeah, name one! I’ll wait… You couldn’t think of anybody because we’re all indecisive bottomless pits which thrive on excess and tasty goodness. Lebanese food not only has a stellar reputation for being some of thee most scrumptious and freshest food in the world, but they’re also…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Ceviche Bar Review
What if the nature of winter food was re-imagined?
What if you could – not wipe from memory, the adoration for food from the hearth – but introduce a dynamism to a Winter Menu?
Say hello to today’s foodie escapade stop: Ceviche Bar.
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Vergenoegd Löw Wine Estate
Pleasant. Vergenoegd Low Wine Estate is the epitome of pleasant on a Sunday afternoon. The expansive Vergenoegd estate, with its expansive 360 views of some of Cape Town’s best cityscapes, rests rather demurely, just off the highway to Stellenbosch. The estate has been headlining in the Cape Town youth demographic, most recently, due to their…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: The Dairy Den Review
SWEET TREATS FOR ME! Today, we celebrate making it through half of the week, with sweet treats of the dairy persuasion. Cape Town is starting to develop more refined options for its niche’ish markets, and Sea Point seems to be the hub of quick and cool nibbles…but are they pushing out something tasty? Today’s foodie…