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Thursday, 15 July 2010

Chatters in Knysna

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Chatters in Knysna

Chatters in Knysna

We decided to have an early din­ner on our last night in Knysna so we could get back to our B&B in time for the clos­ing cere­mony of the soc­cer World Cup.  We were on our way to the Waterfront and passed a little place called Chatters — we hadn’t quite decided what we wanted to eat but it was cold and the sign for 'wood fired piz­zas' made our decision for us.  The res­taur­ant was empty (don’t take that as a bad sign; it was only 5pm!) and we were shown to a table slap bang next to a pot bel­lied stove — clearly the best table in the house!

We were fam­ished so didn’t waste any time order­ing our din­ner: a bur­ger for my hus­band and I chose a pasta.  The bur­ger arrived with proper, homemade chips and the patty was piled high with bacon, feta cheese and the other rel­ishes and top­pings that make a bur­ger a great bur­ger! Continued

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Tuesday, 13 July 2010

Bosuns Bar & Grill in Knysna

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Bosuns in Knysna

Bosuns in Knysna

We had the most deli­cious lunch on Sunday.  We spent the week­end in Knysna (for the mara­thon and Oyster Festival) and after cel­eb­rat­ing a bit too enthu­si­ast­ic­ally on Saturday were grate­ful for the dis­mal, grey, cold and rainy weather.  It elim­in­ated the chance of sight­see­ing and invited instead the oppor­tun­ity to relax!  By lunch time we were hungry so took a drive down to a pub over­look­ing the lagoon:  Bosuns Bar and Grill.

We were the first of the lunch cus­tom­ers (arriv­ing at 11.40am — a bit early) but the pub soon filled up and we were told that all tables in the din­ing area had been reserved.  We found a spot in the bar though and settled down with a pot of tea and enjoyed the warmth of the log fire blaz­ing in the fire­place. Continued

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Friday, 9 July 2010

Pepénero in Mouille Point — a review

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Pepénero

Pepénero

Trying new places for din­ner is some­thing I abso­lutely love to do and it’s even more fun when you’re with a group of people and there is a birth­day cel­eb­ra­tion. A few even­ings ago I found myself enjoy­ing all three of these at Pepénero on Beach Road in Mouille Point.

This has been an area I have not vis­ited in quite a while and while I have been to Bravo, Café Neo and Wakame I had not yet been into Pepénero. From the out­side it looks warm and invit­ing and buzz­ing with activ­ity and when you walk in it con­firms your first impres­sion. Continued

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Thursday, 8 July 2010

Kalk Bay and Tribeca

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My in-laws are vis­it­ing from KwaZulu Natal for the week and hav­ing not been to the Mother City for a num­ber of years we thought we would do the ‘touristy’ thing on Sunday and star­ted off with brunch in one of my favour­ite places; Kalk Bay.

The drive along Boyes Drive from where we live in Lakeside sets the hol­i­day tone; the glor­i­ous views of  Muizenberg Beach, the streams com­ing off the moun­tain, the signs for the many moun­tain hikes and trails and then off course the bob­bing fish­ing boats in Kalk Bay Harbour all remind me why I love liv­ing in this part of the world. Continued

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Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Clarke of the Karoo

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Clarke of the Karoo

Clarke of the Karoo

It's pour­ing with rain, the first proper soak­ing Barrydale has had this sea­son, it's a Monday morn­ing around mid­day, and we're nigh on freez­ing. We later learn that snow lies on the tips of the sur­round­ing Langeberg Mountains, not vis­ible because of the blanket of clouds hov­er­ing over the town.

We've flir­ted with a stop at Clarke of the Karoo dur­ing our two-day visit here, but as yet haven't man­aged more than at least three drive-bys, so we pull in to a park­ing lot already filling up with cars (res­taur­ants should take note that park­ing a couple of cars out­side a venue is a sure draw card to pass­ers by) by now des­per­ate for a hot cuppa some­thing. Continued

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Thursday, 1 July 2010

Paternoster Restaurants

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Apart from hav­ing long, unspoilt beaches, glor­i­ous sun­sets, friendly loc­als, boun­ti­ful fish­er­men and a rel­at­ively stress free life­style, Paternoster also has a selec­tion of very good res­taur­ants.  So good in fact that if memory serves me cor­rectly one of them has been reviewed in the New York Times!

I have had the pleas­ure of din­ing at four res­taur­ants in Paternoster and without a doubt; my abso­lute, abso­lute favour­ite is the The Noisy Oyster.  Here is a short report on res­taur­ants in Paternoster ... Continued

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Wednesday, 23 June 2010

The Fox in Napier

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Last Saturday night we had din­ner at The Fox in Napier and it was so good that I think it deserves a blog post all of its own!

Located at 10 Sarel Cilliers Street in Napier, The Fox is pretty much one of the first (if not the first) build­ing you see as you enter the town.  Originally an 1860’s house, own­ers Mike and Louise con­ver­ted the build­ing into what it is today; The Fox.  One enters the res­taur­ant through the small but pretty garden with a few tables and chairs out­side for al fresco din­ing.  Inside the res­taur­ant has approx­im­ately eight tables and the walls are covered with lovely pic­tures and paint­ings, cop­per pots and jugs and other English mem­or­ab­ilia. Continued

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Friday, 11 June 2010

Bella Lucia in Wynberg — a review

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Bella Lucia

Bella Lucia

I recently had the pleas­ure of din­ing at Bella Lucia in Wynberg.  Newly opened, Bella Lucia is situ­ated next door to the also newly ren­ov­ated and re-opened Café Verdi oppos­ite Maynardville in Chelsea Village.

Glass doors open onto a recep­tion area with the din­ing area tucked just around the corner.  With a total group of about 15, we were seated at two long tables – the seat­ing area is enorm­ous and what’s great about Bella Lucia is that there is plenty of space.  There are not too many tables and couches are placed invit­ingly in front of an open fire­place.  Some of the tables are centred in very comfy look­ing booths – I think that would be my ideal seat­ing choice. Continued

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Thursday, 10 June 2010

Doing Nitida for lunch

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Cassia at Nitida

Cassia at Nitida

Cassia, mean­ing cin­na­mon, is the name of Nitida wine estate's res­id­ent res­taur­ant — you can't miss it as you pull off Tygerberg Road into their gravel drive­way — its rather portent­ous entrance a bit daunt­ing when the descrip­tion of their food is 'con­tem­por­ary, rus­tic cuisine'; some­how I was expect­ing more of a 'coun­try' feel to the place.

This said, the glass and marble foyer is incred­ibly strik­ing. And you get to look straight through huge glass panes into the kit­chen, which gave cre­dence to their byline that the food is 'simple, real and hon­est' — can't get away with much when every­one can see what you're doing. Continued

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Thursday, 3 June 2010

Gardener's Cottage — an escape beneath the trees in Newlands

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Gardener's Cottage

Gardener's Cottage

If you're think­ing of lunch­ing at this pop­u­lar haunt, set under the trees in Newlands, then book ahead. Time spent here is always down time, whether in sum­mer or winter. There are gor­geous, old, and huge shade trees under which lie tables, chairs and umbrel­las to beat the sum­mer heat, and in winter, the interior of the tea garden and break­fast and lunch time venue is divided up into cozy nooks.

I bustled in a little late for my lunch date with Patty, hav­ing just man­aged to squeeze my car into a spot out­side where park­ing is some­thing of a com­mod­ity, at the Montebello Design Centre. She's always so jacked that she had already phoned ahead to book a table, both in and out­side, just to ensure that we had the best pos­sible spot! What are friends for? Continued

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Thursday, 27 May 2010

Cape Town Winter Warmers — try these HOT restaurants!

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Winter Warmers

Winter Warmers

Not every­body likes that eyes-watering, nose-running, throat burn­ing sen­sa­tion that fol­lows a good dose of chilli. But as the days get colder and the drizzle turns into a hail­storm, a little heat isn’t a bad thing.  In fact, any food that forces you to take your jacket off in these cold winter months is a win­ner. In case you don’t know where to find that spe­cial winter warmer, here’s a run­down of the best places in Cape Town to test out the res­ist­ance of your taste buds.

Try Toni’s on Kloof. The cuisine is Mozambique-Portuguese, which means they do any­thing from prawns to chicken and they do it hot! For the real dare-devils for­get the hot sauce, try the extra extra hot sauce. Continued

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Monday, 24 May 2010

Afternoon Tea at Rosemary Hill Farm

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Tea at Rosemary Hill

Tea at Rosemary Hill

I'll admit it, I’m a com­plete tea snob.  I don’t mean that I have to drink a fine Ceylon or any­thing like that but I do love my tea.  I have a cup in the morn­ing and a cup as soon as I get home in the even­ing and it must always, always be made in a pot.  I’ve been told I make the best tea.  My very dear friend, and fel­low tea lover, Vanessa will vouch for this — on any visit from Cape Town to her home in Ballito she will announce ‘Helen will make the tea because Helen makes the best tea’ and she’s abso­lutely cor­rect.  I make the best tea ...

I also have a sweet tooth and nat­ur­ally, tea and cakes go per­fectly well together.  So, if you are like me and have a love of tea and all things sweet then per­haps you should make your way to Rosemary Hill Farm and par­take of their Afternoon Tea?  Tea is served in the res­taur­ant at the farm and weather per­mit­ting, out­side.  Tea is also served at 2pm on Market Day Sundays. Continued

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Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Three Restaurants in Cape Town You Have To Try

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Sidewalk Cafe

Sidewalk Cafe

Richard Griffin has made a name for him­self as one hell of a res­taur­at­eur. The man behind the magic of the legendary Madame Zingara res­taur­ant – not to men­tion the new grand dame of din­ner theatre, the Madame Zingara Theatre of Dreams – is up to more culin­ary tricks on the Cape Town res­taur­ant scene. His latest gifts to our city’s gast­ro­nomic spread take shape in the form of The Bombay Bicycle Club and the rein­ven­ted Sidewalk Cafe.

One has to mar­vel at the man’s Midas touch. The Bombay Bicycle Club took up res­id­ence at the very top of Kloof Street in a build­ing that has yet to play host to an even mildly suc­cess­ful res­taur­ant in recent years (per­haps thanks to old favour­ite Bacini’s pizzeria being right across the street). However, Griffin man­aged to quickly change any linger­ing neg­at­ive energy about the place, if the reg­u­lar throngs of diners pour­ing through his doors are any­thing to go by. Continued

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Monday, 10 May 2010

Train trip and lunch at Octopus’ Garden in St James

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Last Sunday it was a friend’s birth­day and he decided to do some­thing a little out of the ordin­ary. A group of about 30 of us were invited to St James (on the False Bay Coast) to dine for lunch at the Octopus’ Garden and if you have ever driven past this tiny place from the out­side it doesn’t look like much so you might just give it a miss. Hopefully I will be able to sway that opinion.

Why I say this lunch was a little bit dif­fer­ent is because instead of driv­ing to the venue, which is gen­er­ally what hap­pens in Cape Town, it was sug­ges­ted that since so many of us live in the “burbs” (Southern Suburbs) and it being a Sunday and all traffic could be quite bad into this area. We all hopped on a train which trans­por­ted us to the venue. Now I haven’t taken a train since high school and can­not even remem­ber which side of the plat­form I need to stand on. Thank good­ness we had some seasoned train trav­el­lers with us ... Continued

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Friday, 7 May 2010

Chef Pons Asian Kitchen in Gardens — a review

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Chef Pons

Chef Pons

At the begin­ning of the year I headed off to Thailand to meet up with my sis­ter who lives in London. It was a won­der­ful exper­i­ence full of new tastes, sounds and exper­i­ences. My sis­ter had already been in Thailand for about three weeks by the time I arrived and since I really wanted to visit Chiang Mai in the north I made the ven­ture there by myself, as Julia had already been there.

One of the many things I wanted to do was a Thai cook­ing course, because I abso­lutely adore cook­ing — and eat­ing... And my second day in Chiang Mai this is exactly what I did. It was a fant­astic full day out and I learnt a myriad of my favour­ite Thai dishes to impress friends and fam­ily with back at home. You may be won­der­ing why I am telling you all of this ... Continued

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