Meal Kits – the glorified second coming of TV Dinners.
Woolworths Meal Kits bear all the markers of Woolies quality, but why should you buy them?
Tag: Food
Solo Winter: A Cape Town Sunday Funday Guide
From “where to sleep?”, to “where to eat?”, and “where to shop?” …Winter for One can be a quiet & dull time as archetypal Summer activities dwindle & the people around you pair up for Fall cuddles.
However, you can have a wonderful Solo #SundayFunday if you plan it right.
Ready to eat and chill your way around Cape Town?
Fashion Week 2019: The Style, Tech & Wellness Survival Kit
Fashion Week is a deeply exhausting affair.
Recovery, for me, can take days.
Here are a few of my before, during and after Fashion Week necessities, starting with a lovely place named Romney Park…
Cape Town Foodie Escapades: Pintxos Bar Review
Pintxos Bar makes a compelling argument on why you should never leave…
Top 5 Stunning South African Hospitality Options Every Traveler Has to Visit in 2019 (Part 2)
Over the last 3 years, I have experienced a fair few exquisite getaways scattered throughout the Cape region of South Africa specifically.
These hospitality offerings are, honestly, without reproach; guests left wanting for nothing (…except perhaps Netflix in some instances).
Top 5 Stunning South African Hospitality Options Every Traveler Has to Visit in 2019 (Part 1)
Over the last 3 years, I have experienced a fair few exquisite getaways scattered throughout the Cape region of South Africa specifically.
These hospitality offerings are, honestly, without reproach; guests left wanting for nothing (…except perhaps Netflix in some instances).
Top 5 Distinctive South African Restaurants Every Foodie Has to Try in 2019
Vegans | Carnivores | Foodies of All sorts – Last years calories don’t count.
FEAST ON!
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.
Travel Paris: Packing Travel Essentials
Going to Paris, is a gift in and of itself. Going to Paris during Fashion Week, initiates a frenzy of planning and anxiety. This is not just any fashion week or locale – this is the Fashion Capital of the world! Undisputed heavyweight champion of the finest sartorial and haute couture craft known to man….
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…
Travel South Africa: Escape to Orchard Stay
“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather A weekend is sacrosanct to me. Never will I take for granted, the momentary reprieve offered up by being away from where I earn my paycheck. By the Gods! To entirely…
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: Mischu Coffee Review
The first visit was a calm ebb…a lethargic moment in an enclave wreaking of freshly ground coffee beans and simple cafe finery. Their linguistic dexterity rests in the language of coffee; and any gastrolinguist worth their taste-buds, will speak in tongues when they have a cuppa here. The second visit was a loud affair as…
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: SeaBreeze Fish & Shell Review
Even in the throes of Fall, seafood is a steady craving floating through your head, seeking resolution. Those lucky enough to have their feet firmly placed on Cape Town soil, are close to some of the most delectable seafood cuisine – remastered into scrumptious delight, by world-renowned chefs in restaurant residence. Today’s foodie escapade takes…
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: The Daily Coffee Cafe CBD Review
Rustling footsteps, and curious glances – everybody walking across Cape Town’s central business district, and into this inner-city mall, is intrigued enough about the large clean windows, that they slow down and peer in. The widespread popularity of affordable caffeine and its accessibility in a hurry, has influenced a behavioral shift among SA’s working population….
