The Dictator of Taste is Schooling You
NO over-the-top trappings at this latest Franschhoek eatery!
Think New-Style American cuisine with diner-generous portions, and so needed among the prestigious fine dining restaurants in the charming village.
Frank’s Corner gives locals and visitors a decent price point for its straightforward meals dotted with flavourful and familiar tastes and portions.
Take a step back from the bevy of esteemed fine dining curatorships throughout the area. Here’s what Frank’s Corner is serving…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Is GINJA Restaurant your next reasonable stop-in at the Waterfront – for food, vino, or even views?
Check out why any hungry foodie, travelling hoard, couple, or family, should choose to dine at this Newmark Hotels restaurant in the Cape…
For lack of recent fashion week moments, I reminisce and appreciate styling the wearable art fashion house ERRE makes – this time, an evening gown to elevate even your daytime streetstyle, or just High Tea…
As the winter season enters the Cape, I look at the perks of a Winter Staycation in the heart of the Mother City – from signature cocktails, to tours into the Winelands.
This is another Stylish Safe Stay to try…
Perennial pleasure can be found in the Afternoon Tea experience at the famed Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel.
Here’s why to make this luxury Cape retreat your next culinary stop…
The Silo Hotel, is considered the pinnacle of 5-star hospitality in Cape Town – Justifiably so.
…but there are a few things found wanting, from my morning at The Willaston Bar.
Vegans | Carnivores | Foodies of All sorts – Last years calories don’t count.
FEAST ON!
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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….
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…
There have been whispers of the death of Cape Town’s infamous tourist attraction Long Street. Strange mutterings of its descent into nightlife obscurity, were whispered in the air…but I’ve discovered something of a treasure within Long Streets oldest building! Today’s foodie escapades take me to the lower end of the Cape Town central business district,…
Like I said the first and only time I ever reviewed a Vegan joint: “By definition and stereotype, I am a carnivore in the truest sense of the word. I’d damn near dropkick asparagus, to get to some gosh darn beef!” However, in the continued spirit of expanding my knowledge in this new year, and exploring…
I’ve only been back in the country for a bit, but I wanted to keep the momentum going, of all the fun foodie and travel escapades I’ve had. Luckily, there’s a gorgeous gem of a place located a road trip away from Cape Town, at the foot of the Waaihoek Mountain. Today’s foodie escapade takes…