Cape Town – right under your nose

The unreleased tracks and B-sides of Cape Town – right here.

Free range and farm fresh at the docks: Market on The Wharf, V & A Waterfront

The V&A Waterfront would be the ideal place for a gourmet food market. It is central, there is parking (but it is so central that a bike will work) and its the Waterfront. Lots of visitors, the working harbour with interesting boats forever docking, seals sloshing around and barking, history. There are other markets around [...]

Franschhoek- Bread & Wine and the missed marmalade opportunity

We’ve been here 2 or 3 times for not breakfast and not lunch. The restaurant is called Bread & Wine but there is a deli or farm grocers where you can order bread and charcuterie from the counter. It looks as if the meat is sourced and cured by the restaurant. The bacon butty (not [...]

Franschhoek- plush country, no tent required

Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches The Presidents of the United States of America There are different degrees of country when viewed from the city that you’d like to escape. There’s the country of first principles: isolation, nature. The feeling of self sufficiency where making toast or avoiding being eaten become [...]

Vistas Bar, One & Only Cape Town. Free food, comfy chairs, good wine

Tired of the bedsitter? No lack of headroom here   Ah, space. A glass of Neil Ellis wine called Sincerely for R30 in a big thin walled glass (that would get chipped under the tap spout at home in the first 3 days of usage). Loungey “Girl from Ipanema” type sounds from the one woman [...]

Et tu Bistro… Meerendal Wine Estate, Durbanville

Meerendal has been on the fringes of Durbanville since about 1792. Perhaps before the fringes of Durbanville were fringes of anything. Pinotage, the South African invented grape, has been grown there since the early 1950′s.  The Meerendal koppie (Afrikaans for hill or literally “little head”) is good to walk up to see the view over [...]

One Off White – Friendly, Fruity & Fresh

Well we weren’t  going to drink anything tonight (being a Sunday night we try to be fresh for Monday even though we work from home). But unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately as I really enjoyed it – we decided to have a glass. Another well priced option – this time One Off White from Woolworths – [...]

Wines we like – from around Cape Town

I’m starting a new category which I’ve been meaning to do for a long time – Wines we like. We like drinking good wine but like it even more when they’re well priced. So I’ll post every wine we really enjoy on the blog…starting now, the 11 May 2012. Riebeek Cellars Chenin Blanc (Swartland Area) [...]

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