Tagged as: southern suburbs
Art In The Southern Suburbs of Cape Town
Cape Town's City Bowl may hold some of the most acclaimed art museums and galleries in the country, but places like the Iziko South African National Art Gallery, AVA Gallery, Johans Borman Fine Art, The New Church Museum, Erdmann Contemporary, Carmel Art and C...
I Love Rosebank Because …
Hi, I’m Yves Ducommun from Carmichael House in Rosebank, Southern Suburbs of Cape Town ROSEBANK IS BEST KNOWN FOR being on the slopes of Devil’s Peak. "Upper Rosebank used to be a portion of much larger properties sold in the early years of the 19th ce...
I Love Wynberg Because …
Hi, I’m Shaun Lawrence from Palm House Luxury Guest House in Wynberg. Wynberg IS BEST KNOWN FOR being the oldest area in the southern suburbs with its beautiful Chelsea cottages giving you English charm in the middle of Africa. Chelsea Village dates back t...
O’ways Teacafe in Claremont
Tea houses haven’t exactly taken off in Cape Town. While we embrace coffee culture with almost religious zeal, we tend to sniff our noses at anywhere that offers anything other than Ceylon and Rooibos (or perhaps Green Tea or Chamomile for the real daredevils....
A Walk Down Kildare Road – Photographs
It was a beautiful sunny afternoon and I decided to take a walk down one of my favourite roads in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town - Kildare Road. You will find Kildare Road in the leafy, upmarket suburb of Newlands. If you are a cricket or rugby fan you prob...
Starke Ayres in Rosebank – much more than a nursery
My husband is a closet nursery fetishist. Now many of you might argue that he is simply a gardening freak. Granted. But there is something a little insidious, do you not think, in spending untold hours in a nursery. A nursery, for goodness sake! Filled with pl...
Rondebosch Common and the café where you do lunch
'Meet me at this really great venue,' my other half chimes at me across the cell, 'it's in Rondebosch, you can't miss it, right across from the common'. And that is the main allure of this café – the view. Essentially, it must have one of the best views in Cap...
Rondebosch Potters Market – I feel an obsession coming on
On the second-last Saturday of March and November is ceramics fever in Cape Town. Everyone even remotely interested in pottery descends on the Rondebosch Potters Market, where everyone who produces pottery in any shape or form, is there to exhibit. And we're n...
Walking Wynberg
Who would have thought that Wynberg Main Road, which most people avoid at given times of the day and barely give a second glance, could be so steeped in history? I've often been aware, as I drive my son home from school, that there are bits of the road that lo...
Untamed at Kirstenbosch
Go and see this exhibition if you can. Actually, you can't miss it if you visit Kirstenbosch in the next year - or just under a year as it's moving on, they think, to Johannesburg come June 2011 - as the organic structure takes up most of a space you're used t...
Breakfast at Cafeen in Harfield Village, Cape Town
I often drive past this little place on Third Avenue in Harfield Village but I haven’t yet had the chance to go in and experience it. There are always lots of cars parked outside and on a Saturday morning it looks filled to bursting with people, which is alway...
Chelsea Village Wynberg Explored
On a visit home last Christmas my father gave me four old prints he had of Chelsea Village Wynberg and although at that time, covered in mould (the scourge of coastal living) and gecko droppings, the prints looked rather worse for wear. They have now however ...
Myoga Restaurant at The Vineyard – A Review
We arrived at Myoga Restaurant at The Vineyard Hotel in Newlands to much fan-fare on Friday night; road closures, an obvious police presence, paparazzi and a film crew. Goodness I thought, they shouldn’t have gone to all this trouble just for us! What it was...
Harvest of Hope – Harvesting hope with my weekly box of vegetables
Every school week a box of vegetables is dropped off at my son's school with my name on it. It sits, in amongst similar boxes, awaiting pick-up. It must be said that I often forget and my box finds its way into the school fridge until I remember the following ...
Gardener’s Cottage – an escape beneath the trees in Newlands
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...