Where to Stay? Where to Play? Where to Taste?☀️I invite you to join me on an exploration of the sun-soaked Cape’s unparalleled summer tapestry. From the untamed beauty of the Winelands to inner city staples and seaside bucket list stop-ins every intrepid globetrotter yearns for, this is a taste of summer in the Southern Hemisphere…
Tag: Food
Culinary Quest: Manor Kitchen, at Lanzerac
At Manor Kitchen, fine-tuned rustic food comes with a dash of heritage and cosmopolitan polish.
Lanzerac reaffirms why its celebrated for its culinary offerings year after year, and this is how they’re doing it…
Culinary Quest: Grande Roche Hotel
Celebrated chef Kevin Grobler takes Grande Roche visitors on taste adventures at this luxury countryside hotel renowned for delivering outstanding hospitality.
Find your ideal dining adventure at Grande Roche Hotel now, because accessible fine dining & even leisurely hangouts revolving around food & beverages, are now on the menu…
Culinary Quest: GALJOEN Restaurant
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…
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.
Anatomy of Good Tea: DIY Iced Tea from The Tea Chest SA
Just because you may not like hot tea, doesn’t mean you can’t fall in love with Iced Tea. This DIY Iced Tea from The Tea Chest SA is how you start the chilled romance…
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…
Anatomy of Good Tea: The Tea Chest’s PLŪKT Peace & Pleasure
PLUKT (available from The Tea Chest) – Inventing alternative green and caffeine-free black teas.
Here’s why you should add their Nordic Black Tea to your Tea Chest…
Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Tasteful Presents for the Stylish & Unique
The very best in unique, fun, and tasteful holiday gifts, is right here!
Shop South Africa’s well-vetted best – a curated Christmas gift guide filled with a few picks that would delight even the most discerning person this festive….
Travel Europe (Review): Chapter Roma Hotel, in Italy
Balance history and modern luxury, at Chapter Roma – one of Europe’s coolest value-for-money hotels, in Italy’s capital!
Here’s why every local and traveller is heading to this urban chic hotel in the heart of Rome…
Sign of the Wines: Two South African Wines Worth Your Time
Relatively easy to find, and even easier to enjoy: The Radford Dale wines, as well as Jordan Wines Timepiece selection, make a case for high quality South African wines for every drinking occasion…
Travel Los Angeles: Ace Hotel DTLA for Peace & Chill in the City
Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles’s rooftop pool & bar isn’t even what should top the list of what’s ace about this divine 13-storey hotel…
Top 5 Stylish Safe Stays in The Cape: A 2022 Hotel Guide
Here’s why these Cape hotel picks rank in the hospitality Top 5, for one of Africa’s finest travel destinations…
Welcome to the 2022 Stylish Safe Stay Shortlist!
Culinary Quest: Mulberry & Prince
Mulberry & Prince does brunch different – from their Mimosas to their breakfast menu picks.
Find out if they’re the right fit for your next brunch meet…
Stylish Safe Stay: Pearl Bay Villa, by Beach House Collection
Find out more about how the ocean villa that Beach House Collection offers up to you, is a masterful travel temptation complete with cinematic cosy style, lesser-travelled coastal vistas, and a unique opportunity to sate your wanderlust with luxury African hospitality…
Galileo Open-Air Cinema: Movie Magic Under the Stars
Outdoor venues in and around the city, are always choice for weird and wonderful experiences.
Find out whether the Galileo Open-Air Cinema is a worthwhile experience for movie boffins, families, and others alike…
Culinary Quest: To Unconventional Breakfasts
What’s the most interesting breakfast you’ve ever had?
I’m fascinated by how breakfast menus around the world now have genre-bending range beyond the eggcellent Full English Breakfast.
Find out how things have changed…
Travel Essentials: The Dire State of The Hotel Coffee Station
Some Travel Essentials aren’t the ones you pack, but the ones you arrive to.
Read on as I plead my case for refreshing the hotel Tea & Coffee Station…
Anatomy of Good Tea: Spilling Teabag Recommendations
Quality isn’t all in loose leaf teas.
Find out how to make the most of your teabags, tea brand recommendations, and what it takes to brew the perfect cuppa now…
Stylish Safe Stay: Bridgewater Apartments
Century City Hotels newest stop-in brings contemporary aparthotel conveniences to business travellers and leisure travellers alike.
Check out whether Bridgewater Apartment’s hospitality is a good fit for your travel needs, now…
Cocktails in the City: Exploring Cape Neighbourhoods by Drink – Part II
From Cosmopolitan Cocktail orders, to winelands offering alcohol and incredible vistas, start exploring the neighbourhoods I’m travelling in my own area.
Oh! And we’re travelling by drink…
Stylish Safe Stay: Century City Hotel Bridgewater
Traditional hotel hospitality and contemporary conveniences converge at Century City Hotels newest stop-in.
Check out whether you can rest easy at Bridgewater – whether a Digital Nomad, family or another welcome traveller…
Anatomy of Good Tea: How to Brew a Decent Loose Leaf & Tea Bag Cuppa
The construction of the perfect cup of tea is not much of a secret.
From water temperature to tea flavor types and instruments, here’s the tea on how I, and even Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, like our Afternoon Tea brewed…