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‘Hayden Quinn: South Africa’ episode 12: Rhino spotting, Zulu dancing, more...
Last night’s episode 12 of ‘Hayden Quinn: South Africa‘ showed many South Africans an area of the country they have little exposure to, being Shakaland, a Zulu Cultural Centre, where Quinn was exposed...
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‘Hayden Quinn: South Africa’: Cool as a cucumber in Durban, Chow bye Bunny...
It was the last episode of ‘Hayden Quinn: South Africa‘ last night, going full circle in Hayden having surfed off Muizenberg in episode 1, and doing so as well in Umhlanga in episode 13 last night....
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Blaauwklippen’s 31st Blending Competition makes history!
Friday’s 31st Blaauwklippen Blending Competition event was not only a celebration of the enthusiasm and skills of wine clubs around the country, but also of the rejuvenation of Blaauwklippen, with a...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 27/28 October
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * Retailers’ service sucks – we may have thought so – but now it’s official, according to the ‘Retail Shopper Survey 2014′, conducted by Why 5 amongst...
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2014 Great Wine Capitals Global Network Best of Wine Tourism winners honoured...
About two weeks ago we received the media release announcing the South African winners of the Great Wine Capitals Global Network Best of Wine Tourism awards. On Friday the awards were officially handed...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 12 January
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * South Africa’s 2014 Eat Out Chef of the Year, Chantel Dartnall of Restaurant Mosaic at The Orient, is participating in the Audi Chef’s Cup SüdTirol in Italy,...
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WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 9 April
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines * The largest part of Camp Bay Drive, a major road connection between the city, Camps Bay, and Hout Bay, is to close for road widening and surface improvement...
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Restaurant Review: Boschendal The Werf Restaurant expensive farm foraged...
In December I visited Boschendal Farm, to try their new Deli, and had been fortunate to be shown around the revitalised wine estate by Events Manager Aldo du Plessis and Chef Christiaan Campbell. The...
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Oranjezicht City Farm Market now has a seaview, lots of parking!
Yesterday my friend Jenny and I visited the new venue of the Oranjezicht City Farm Market in the V&A Waterfront, alongside Beach Road near the Grand Café on the Beach at Granger Bay. The new venue...
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Eat Out Awards 2016 blooming slick, Gregory Czarnecki of Waterkloof Chef of...
At the 2016 Eat Out Awards, held yesterday in the Arena of GrandWest over a Gala Lunch prepared by some of our country’s top chefs, some winners were predictable, and others were a surprise. It was a...
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Restaurant Review: RocoMama’s Green Point food and service ‘Not Normal’!
Yesterday Elize Skriker and I went to have lunch at RocoMama’s in Green Point, having been challenged to try the Burger and Shake eatery as an 18 year old! I had been to interview Joe Stead of the Spur...
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Preview: New Gåte restaurant to become a rock star at Quoin Rock Winery, Fine...
Yesterday I had the goosebump experience of being introduced to the new-in-the-making Gåte at Quoin Rock restaurant at the Quoin Rock winery outside Stellenbosch, which is destined to become a...
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Gåte Restaurant at Quoin Rock takes SA restauranting to a new level,...
The new words on serious diners lips are ‘Gåte’ and ‘Quoin Rock’, both not having been heard of by most, but already associated with superlative dining, on a wine estate tucked away outside...
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JHP Gourmet Guide announces 2020 top restaurants, but does not release the...
The publishers of the Gourmet Guide 2020 have made it really difficult to write this post, in that it is not revealing its full list of 36 restaurants that received its one, two, or three plate awards...
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Western Province Rugby moves to Cape Town Stadium, Newlands Rugby Stadium to...
Eleven years after the completion of the Cape Town Stadium for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, the Stadium is to be put to use again, with Western Province Rugby making the Stadium its new...
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SA Restaurant trends 2019, less French, more indigenous, lighter, vegan,...
I have only just paged through the Eat Out 2020 magazine, and was interested in the article on restaurants trends observed during 2019 whilst Eat Out Head Judge and Chef Margot Janse and her team...
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Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen’s new KLEIN JAN Restaurant at Tswalu...
In the latest issue of SARIE KOS (Summer 2020), the reader receives a detailed introduction to the new KLEIN JAN restaurant which Chef Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen, of Michelin one-star restaurant...
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SA Winners of 2022 Great Wine Capitals Global Network Best of Wine Tourism...
The winners of the South African leg of the 2022 Great Wine Capitals have just been announced by Wesgro. Two wine estates won in two categories each. Added to the local Awards are...
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less wine brand launched, focuses on sustainability, less bottle, less paper...
Last week I met with Marlene Truter, owner of the new wine brand less, with Chardonnay 2021 and Pinotage 2020 cultivars. Its focus is more on sustainability, being sustainably grown, containing less...
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City of Cape Town urges Minibus-Taxi industry to refrain from violence and...
Taxi violence in the city centre this afternoon led to the City of Cape Town issuing the following media statement: ‘CITY OF CAPE TOWN 1 AUGUST 2023 MEDIA RELEASE City urging minibus-taxi industry to...
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